Zaw Win Htut

On 17 April 2020, Zaw Win Htut take a self Quarantine  for Coronavirus disease 2019, during the COVID-19 pandemic, which he became the first self Quarantine patient public figure in Myanmar that reported to Duwun media.

His Motorcycle club “The Beasts” is also very famous among Myanmar Bike Industry. Most of the club members are Famous actors and singers. Founded in 2017. Members of the beasts MC are well known business youngsters and also some CEOs of Myanmar major business organizations are the members.

Like most Burmese pop singers, Zaw Win Htut became famous with Burmese language covers of foreign (mostly Western rock and pop) hits, written by successful cover "songwriters" such as Thukhamein Hlaing, Min Chit Thu, Win Min Htwe, and Saw Khu Sae. Unlike most Burmese pop stars, this grandson of Shwe Taing Nyunt was actually embarrassed about it. He famously said that singing those songs were like wearing someone else's shirt. In a 2004 interview he said that his goal was to make original music.

He decided to make only "original" (i.e. non-cover) albums in mid 1990s. He was one of the first artists in the Burmese pop music industry to break away from the cover song mold so many Burmese artists follow. He did score a few hits with A-Hnaing-Me and Achit Mya Thu Si Mha. He continues to perform his famous cover hits in concerts although he performs only the original songs in his overseas concerts. In a 2010 interview, he admitted that he refused to do any concerts overseas for many years because he did not have a sufficient number of original songs, and that he began doing overseas concerts only after he had collected enough original songs. In the same interview he said he had done over 20 overseas concerts.

Zaw Win Htut began his career in music as a drummer in a band called Oasis. He formed his own band, Emperor, in the 1980s with five members: Zaw Myo Htut (his brother and lead guitarist), Kyin Kham Phone (bass), Wai Tun (drums), Maung Maung Lwin (keyboards), John O'Hara (acoustics). He was strictly a country and rock and roll singer in his early career. His first album,"Mercury Night" released in 1983, was not a success. He produced three more solo albums, "New Road", "Comet", and "Power of Love" but they were not much of success either. In 1989, his greatest hits album "The Bests of Zaw Win Htut" was a huge success and made him a rock star.

Zaw Win Htut (Burmese: ဇော်ဝင်းထွဋ် , pronounced [zɔ̀ wɪ́ɰ̃ tʰʊʔ] ; 21 January 1964) is a Burmese hard rock singer. He is the founder and lead vocalist of the band Emperor.