May Sweet was the dominant female singer of Burmese pop music from the late 1970s to the 1980s, bridging popular singers from the 1970s like Nwe Yin Win and L Khun Yi to Maykhala, her main rival in the mid-1980s, and to Hayma Ne Win and Connie in the late 1980s.
She achieved immense popularity starting in the late 1970s with a series of repackaged Western cover albums called Panthi Thachinmya (lit.
The longevity of her popularity and dominance at the top remains unparalleled in Myanmar where even most successful female singers do not last more than a few years.
To date, she remains the only singer to have achieved success in both Western-style pop and classic Burmese music genres.
May Sweet left the Burmese music scene and the country in the late 1990s after she was married to a Burmese-American from New York City in 1997.
Deeply interested in music since childhood, young Mi Swe was able to sing classical Burmese songs called thachingyi by 8.
Her singing ability caught the ear of Ba Than, a famous Burmese harp master, and a family friend.
[1] May Sweet graduated from the Dagon 1 High School in 1978, and received a bachelor's degree in botany from Yangon University in 1982.
Now working at a middle school in the US, she continues to perform for Burmese expatriate audiences around the world during her time-off.
[3] Secondly in 2011 on the exile-run media web site the Irrawaddy that published a number hoax articles when it was hacked.
[5][non-primary source needed][6] May Sweet has recorded dozens of albums and hundreds of songs in many genres in her long career.