Annabella Lwin
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Annabella Lwin performing with Bow Wow Wow in Kant-Kino, Berlin in 1982.
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Myant Myant Aye |
| Born | 31 October 1966 |
| Origin | Rangoon, Burma (now Yangon, Myanmar) |
| Genres | Alternative rock, new wave, pop |
| Occupation(s) | Singer, songwriter, performer, producer |
| Instruments | Vocals |
| Years active | 1980–present |
| Associated acts | Bow Wow Wow |
| Website | www |
Annabella Lwin (born Myant Myant Aye, 31 October 1966) is an Anglo-Burmese singer, songwriter, and record producer best known as the lead singer of Bow Wow Wow.
Lwin was born to a Burmese father and an English mother in Rangoon, Burma (now Yangon, Myanmar).
In 1980, at the age of thirteen, she was spotted by a friend of Malcolm McLaren singing at a dry cleaning premises in North London where she worked part-time. Following her successful audition for the lead singer position in McLaren's new group (the yet-to-be-named band Bow Wow Wow), he had her transfer from a mixed comprehensive school in London to the Sylvia Young Theatre School. McLaren dubbed her 'Bess Man'. The group would go on to chart success with the songs "Go Wild in the Country", "Do You Wanna Hold Me?" and "I Want Candy". Early on in the band, controversy surrounded Lwin as she had posed nude for the cover of See Jungle! See Jungle! Go Join Your Gang, Yeah. City All Over! Go Ape Crazy, the group's first full-length album (Lwin was 14 at the time).
When Lwin was ousted from the band in September 1983 following the release of their final album, When the Going Gets Tough, the Tough Get Going, she embarked on a solo career, releasing the album Fever in 1986, which was produced by and recorded with multi-instrumentalist Jim Lea of Slade. She formed a new band, Naked Experience, and collaborated across the Atlantic with seasoned musicians and songwriters such as Billy Steinberg and Ellen Shipley. The official song release, "Carsex", made the Top 10 in the UK Dance Chart, and re-mixed dance follow-up "Do What You Do" (1995), produced by Steve Lironi, spent one week at No.61 in the UK Singles Chart.Another single from the album, "War Boys", produced by John Robie, spent six weeks on the US Billboard Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart, peaking at #28.
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