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ႏိုင္ငံေက်ာ္ေတးသံရွင္ ေမရွင္
(ေဒၚ) သီဆိုခဲ့ေသာ ေခတ္ေဟာင္း ေတးမ်ားကို မူလဓါတ္ျပားအတိုင္း
ျပန္လည္ တင္ျပသည္။
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May Shin was born in Mandalay in 1917 .
At 18, May Shin joined A1 Film Company as an aspiring actress. She was soon
highly acclaimed for her soft gentle singing voice. Her first film was Hpuza
Shin, starring opposite actor Yegaung Chit Swe but she became known in the
first Burmese sound film Hmya Nat Maung.
As a radio presenter at the Burma Broadcasting Service in the 1950s. In 1958,
she was awarded the title Wunna Kyaw Htin, the highest honor given to an
artist by the Burmese government in that time. In 1962, at the age of 45, May
Shin gave up acting and singing and withdrew from public life. She became
devoutly Buddhist and practiced dhamma until the day she died.
In her old age, the venerated actress and singer spent most of her time in
Buddhist contemplation at her residence in Mandalay. Win Win Myint (aka Nandaw
Shay), author of May Shin’s biography, Pan Pwint Ye Yin Khon Than “The
Heartbeat of a Flower”, said that she never married and that she loved to
uphold Burmese traditional culture and religion.
May Shin died of pulmonary edema at her residence in Aung Daw Mu Ward,
Mandalay when she was at 91.
Ref : wikipedia.org
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