Annabella Lwin
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Annabella Lwin (born October 31, 1965) was the lead singer of Bow Wow Wow.
She was born Myint Myint Aye (Burmese for "High,High, Cool") to a Burmese father and an English mother in London. In 1980, at the age of fourteen, she successfully auditioned as the lead singer for the newly formed group Bow Wow Wow and changed her name. 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), and form a new band Naked Experience, as well as collaborate with other musicians and songwriters such as Billy Steinberg (Madonna, Divinyls) and Ellen Shipley (Belinda Carlisle), releasing classics like ‘Carsex’ and dance tracks like ‘Do What U Do’, produced by Steve Lironi (Hansen). She reunited with former Bow Wow Wow 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 Adrian Young from No Doubt filling in on drums for the original Bow Wow Wow member Dave Barbarossa.
Annabella 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. 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. She has also co-written a solo song with Producer Carey Beare, donated exclusively to the Hands and Hearts Organization for Tsunami Relief in spring of 2005.
Annabella is a practicing Buddhist.
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