Saw Bwe Hmu

In this Burmese name, Saw is an honorific, not a given name.
Saw Bwe Hmu
စောဘွဲ့မှူး
Born19 October 1952
Sittwe, Arakan State, Burma
Died24 July 1994 (1994-07-25) (aged 41)
GenresRock music
OccupationMusician
InstrumentGuitar
Formerly ofIron Cross

Saw Bwe Hmu (Burmese: စောဘွဲ့မှူး; 19 October 1952 – 24 July 1994) was a co-founder and the band leader of the Burmese band Iron Cross and a well known songwriter. An ethnic Karen Christian, he served as the lead guitarist of the band.[1] Other band members included Chit San Maung (guitar), Khin Maung Thant (bass), Banya Naing (keyboards) and Kha Yan (drums). Lay Phyu, Ah Nge, Myo Gyi and Wyne Wyne were the key singers of that band and R Zarni soon joined the band later. Composers Maung Maung Zaw Latt and L Phyu freed it from its reliance on such popular American bands as Metallica and won it critical acclaim and a wide public.[1] He played the guitar at Success and Symphony music bands before Iron Cross was founded. He composed songs for Kaiser.[2] He was a music critic, writing under the pen name Zar Hlaing.[3]

He died at the age of 39 on 24 July 1994.[4][5] He was survived by wife and ex-keyboard player Naw Phaw War and 2 daughters, Mi Mi Khe and Kabya Bwe Hmu, both of whom are successful singers.[6]

  1. ^ a b "From Rock to Romance". The Irrawaddy. December 2008. Retrieved 2023-03-24.
  2. ^ Andrew Sway (2013-07-22). "ကျနော် သိခဲ့တဲ့ ကိုဘွဲ့မှူး". Moemaka (in Burmese). Archived from the original on 2014-07-17.
  3. ^ ရာဇာ (2013-07-25). "ဇာလှိုင်း (သို့) စောဘွဲ့မှူး ရဲ့ ဝေဖန်ရေးသမား ဘဝ တခဏ" (in Burmese). Moemaka. Archived from the original on 2014-07-23. Retrieved 2014-06-17.
  4. ^ ဒေါက်တာကိုကိုလွင် (Iron Cross) (2013-07-25). "ကျွန်တော့် ဆရာ စောဘွဲ့မှူး". Moemaka (in Burmese). Archived from the original on 2019-04-05.
  5. ^ "စောဘွဲ့မှူး အမှတ်တရ ဂီတဖျော်ဖြေပွဲ ကျင်းပနိုင်ရန် ကျန်ရစ်သူ မိသားစု စီစဉ်" (in Burmese). Mizzima News. 7 February 2015. Retrieved 24 June 2018.
  6. ^ နိုင်ဇော် (Lazy Club) (2013-07-24). "ကျွန်တော် နှင့် ဂစ်တာ မှော်ဆရာကြီး". Moemaka (in Burmese).