Annabella Lwin Bio - Biography

Name Annabella Lwin
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Naionality Burma
Date of Birth 31 October 1956
Place of Birth Rangoon, Burma
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She was born Myint Myint Aye (Burmese for "high high cool", the name given to her by a Burmese priest)[1] to a Burmese father and an English mother in Yangon, Myanmar.[2][3]

In 1980, at the age of thirteen, she successfully auditioned, after being spotted singing in a launderette by a friend of Malcolm McLaren's, as the lead singer for the newly formed band Bow Wow Wow and changed her name.[4] The group's biggest hits were the songs "Go Wild in the Country" and "I Want Candy". Lwin created some controversy by posing nude (at the age of fifteen) 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 left the group in 1983 to embark on a solo career, releasing Fever in 1986 (RCA 8061). She formed a new band, Naked Experience, as well as collaborating with other musicians and songwriters such as Billy Steinberg (Madonna, Divinyls) and Ellen Shipley (Belinda Carlisle), releasing songs like "Carsex" and dance tracks like "Do What U Do", produced by Steve Lironi (Hansen). She reunited with former bandmate Leigh Gorman to reform Bow Wow Wow for a tour in 1997, and has had a frequent small-venue concert schedule since 2003. Appearances since their reunion have included Eshan Khadaroo of Beat Kitchen and Adrian Young from No Doubt filling in on drums for the original member Dave Barbarossa.

Lwin has also been recording original material as a solo artist, and is a featured vocalist on numerous transatlantic dance tracks with producers like Tony B and the Utah Saints. Some mystery surrounds her collaboration with the Utah Saints, as both her official site and the Utah Saints official site mention the collaboration but it appears never to have been available to buy. Her songwriting brought her into partnerships with Guy Chambers (a collaborator of Robbie Williams) and Michael Lattanzi (producer of Mariah Carey, Paula Abdul, Sly & Robbie, Anastasia).

Since 2000 Annabella has performed several concerts for global charities like UNICEF and Save the Children Fund, raising hundreds of thousands of dollars for needy children[citation needed]. She featured as a vocalist for Camp Freddy members, Dave Navarro and Billy Morrison for a Fundraising Tsunami concert. She also co-wrote and co-produced a solo song with record producer Carey Beare, donated exclusively to the Hands and Hearts Organization for Tsunami Relief in the Spring of 2005.

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