For all his devotion to traditional classical music, however, he was attracted to Western music, especially jazz and blues, from the age of around 10 years old in the years immediately after World War II. He was mesmerized by the music of Louis Armstrong, Harry James, Ella Fitzgerald and others to whom he was exposed through American musical films. At home, he secretly tuned to Radio Ceylon from Sri Lanka for European classical music, lest his anti-colonial nationalist father should become aware of his new passion. Apart from playing traditional xylophone at home, he learned to play trumpet and saxophone without his father’s knowledge.
Additional Artworks
From Atomic Art Space
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Maung Thiha
Village Horse Carts (2020), 2020
Watercolor on Paper
21 x 30 in (53.34 x 76.2 cm)
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MPP Yei Myint (b. 1953)
VVBA 17, 2020
Acrylic on Canvas
48 x 60 in (121.92 x 152.4 cm)
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Zar Ni
Raining in Bagan, 2020
Watercolor on Paper
12 x 16 in (30.48 x 40.64 cm)
NFS
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MPP Yei Myint (b. 1953)
VVBA 20, 2020
Oil on Canvas
48 x 72 x 1 in (121.92 x 182.88 x 2.54 cm)
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MPP Yei Myint (b. 1953)
VVBA 19, 2020
Acrylic On Canvas
48 x 72 x 1 in (121.92 x 182.88 x 2.54 cm)
NFS
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MPP Yei Myint (b. 1953)
VVBA 18, 2020
Acrylic On Canvas
60 x 60 x 1 in (152.4 x 152.4 x 2.54 cm)
NFS
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Win Pe
Anger, I am stronger(2018), 2018
Acrylic on Canvas
36 x 24 in (91.44 x 60.96 cm)
NFS
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Chan Nyein Kyaw (CNK)
the Dream of Last Night, 2018
Acrylic on Canvas
24 x 24 in (60.96 x 60.96 cm)
MMK 3,300,000
About the artist
Win Pe
Myanmar
b. 1936
