Myanmar is home to EV in Asia. EV Myanmar has been in the region since 2007 providing funding for musical instruments and studio equipment to complete a professional studio that will not only record these youth free of charge but also offer employment to many locals. Young people who record there will then model our domestic program by giving away the music free to the population.

The music of Burma (or Myanmar) has similarities with and is related to many other musical traditions in the region, including Chinese music, Indian music and Thai music. Today, modern pop/rap/rock artists like Sai Sai, Shwe Htike, Khin Phone, and No are popular, especially in big cities.

Traditional music from Burma is melodious, generally without harmony, and usually in 4/4 time (na-yi-se) or 2/4 (wa-let-se) or 8/16 (wa-let-a-myan). There are "the segments combined into patterns, combined into verses, combined into songs [that] make Burmese music a multileveled hierarchical system...The Burmese musician manipulates the various levels of the hierarchy to create the song..." (Becker 1969)

Western music gained much popularity in Burma starting from the 1930s. Nowadays the mainly popular form of Western music is Classical, popular with the elderly people who had experienced British occupation. Rock and Punk, with bands like Iron Cross, Emperor and BigBag, are popular between the middle-aged and some groups of youth, but the most dominant form of Western music within the youth groups are hip-hop and rap. There are hip-hop enthusiastics all over Burma with artists such as Yelay,Sai-Sai, and J-me.

Burma, officially the Union of Myanmar, is the largest country by geographical area in mainland Southeast Asia.

The British began conquering Burma in 1824 and incorporated the country into the British Raj in 1886. Burma was administered as a province of British India until 1937 when it became a separate, self-governing colony. The country became independent from the United Kingdom on 4 January 1948, as the "Union of Burma". It became the "Socialist Republic of the Union of Burma" on 4 January 1974, before reverting to the "Union of Burma" on 23 September 1988. On 18 June 1989, the State Law and Order Restoration Council (SLORC) adopted the name "Union of Myanmar" for English transliteration. This controversial name change in English is not recognised by opposition groups and several nations.

The country is bordered by China on the northeast, Laos on the east, Thailand on the southeast, Bangladesh on the west, and India on the northwest, with the Bay of Bengal to the southwest. One-third of Burma's total perimeter, 1,930 kilometers (1,199 mi), forms an uninterrupted coastline.

Burma's diverse population has played a major role in defining its politics, history and demographics in modern times, and the country continues to struggle to mend its ethnic tensions. Its political system remains under the tight control of SPDC, the military led government, since 1992, by Senior General Than Shwe. The military has dominated government since General Ne Win led a coup in 1962 that toppled the civilian government of U Nu. The country's culture, heavily influenced by neighbours, is based on Theravada Buddhism intertwined with local elements. READ ON.