Wanyiwah was born in Thailand and raised there until age nine before she and her family came to South Korea in 2016 to seek refugee status.īoth her parents are from Myanmar's ethnic minority, the Karen people. "He would have been more than happy because he wanted me to become a singer, like him." "My dad would have said he's so proud of me," Wanyiwah said in Korean during a recent Korea Times interview when asked how her late father would have reacted if he had seen her performance in person. In the comments section, one viewer wrote Wanyiwah had the "voice of an angel." Another wrote she was touched by her performance, thanking the teen for her artful singing. The YouTube videos featuring her performance have gone viral on the internet, surpassing the million mark. Realizing she made the cut, Wanyiwah burst into tears. Her masterful performance gave her the green light to advance to the next round. The camera captured each judge one after another: some were holding back tears, some crying and some wiping away tears from their eyes. "Why are you there, a place irreversible, beyond my reach / Why, why did it have to be you?" Her soulful performance reached its peak when she sang the latter part of the song. Feeling the music, she sang articulately each lyric just as a poet reads out a sad poem in front of a book club audience. She closed her eyes as the music for "Surprise Lily" started. The song lyrics and my story share in common that sad similarity."
"My dad passed away when I was very young. "As you know, the song that I'm going to perform is about the people who miss their loved ones but cannot see them again," she said. Representing Myanmar's Karen ethnic minority, the teen refugee shared a tragic story about her father which motivated her to choose the Korean song "Surprise Lily" to perform on national TV.
Wanyiwah, 14, took the stage as her name was called as the next contestant on KBS' hit audition show, "National Trot Championships," which aired on Dec. Myanmar's Karen ethnic minority family finds home in Korea with the help of warm-hearted people Both her parents are from Myanmar's Karen ethnic minority. Performing under the stage name Martha Htoowah, she is already a popular singer in Myanmar. Wanyiwah, a 14-year-old contestant on KBS' audition show "National Trot Championships," smiles during a Korea Times interview on Dec.
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