Engelbert Humperdinck to perform in Yangon
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Yangon - Crooner Engelbert Humperdinck was scheduled toperform in Yangon next month, making the septuagenarian the firstwell-known Western entertainer to grace the former capital of Myanmarin decades, industry sources said Friday.
"Humperdinck will arrive on July 9, and will perform at theNational Theatre on the evening of July 11," said a spokesman for LoHein Company, which is sponsoring his appearance.
The Anglo-Indian Humperdinck, born Arnold George Dorsey, is bestknown for such 1960s classics as Release Me, I'll Never Fall in LoveAgain, Spanish Eyes and The Last Walz.
Myanmar was effectively closed to high-profile Western acts fordecades until recent reforms.
Under military dictatorships from 1962 to 2010, it was labelled apariah state by Western democracies after an army crackdown onpro-democracy demonstrators in 1988 left an estimated 3,000 dead.
The country has started to open up under President Thein Sein, whohas initiated a series of political and economic reforms since comingto power in March 2011.//DPA
