Quick Facts
Biography
Ant Gyi (Burmese: အံ့ကြီး 17 June 1923 – 23 June 2017) was a prominent Burmese singer and musician, best known for singing classic Burmese songs including "Man Taung Yeik Kho" (မန်းတောင်), "Lu Gyun Lu Kaung" (လူချွန်လူကောင်း), "Yin Ta Ko Me" (ယဉ်တစ်ကိုယ်မယ်), "Babu Thuza" (ပန်းပုသူဇာ), "Turiya Lulin" တူရိယာလုလင်, "Yangon Thu" (ရန်ကုန်သူ), "Turiya Lon May" (တူရိယာလုံမေ), "Aung Pinle" အောင်ပင်လယ်, and "Shwe Mingan" (ရွှေမင်းဂံ).
Personal life
Born to K.K. Bahattacharjee, Superintendent of the Forest Department (Chindwin Circle) and Daw Win, he attended the American Baptist Mission School. Married to May Nyunt, Ant Gyi had two sons and one daughter. He died on 23 June 2017 at the Parami General Hospital in Yangon, Myanmar, and cremated at Yayway Cemetery on 25 June. His grandson, Htun Htun, is an actor.