Sai Sai Kham Leng

One of the biggest hip-hop stars in Myanmar’s history, Sai Sai Kham Leng was born April 10, 1979 in Taunggyi. At age eighteen he devoted himself to a music career, attempting to bring hip-hop to a country where the genre had not yet caught hold. His 2000 debut Chocolate-Colored Ice Dreams went largely unnoticed, but 2001’s Many Friends would establish his career. That laid the groundwork for the breakthrough success of 2003’s February Diary, which included his first number 1 single, “One Nal Mhat Tan”. In 2004 he released a live album and performed the first of the annual Sai Sai Birthday Shows, one of the most popular live music events in Myanmar. In addition to releasing new albums and running his own record label, he branched out into music video direction, and established himself as a film actor starting in 2006 with Mingalabar and went on to be nominated for Best Actor at the Myanmar Academy Awards three times in the next ten years. In addition to becoming a novelist, he released the albums Always Dwifter in 2009 and Topnotch in 2012. His 2020 single “Red Light” scored him yet another top 40 hit twenty years into his groundbreaking career in Burmese hip hop.

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