More than just a beautiful voice that mixes nicely with her guitar strumming, Jasmin has the mountains at her back.
Indeed mountain vistas have proved part of the appeal of Patchalaware “Jasmin” Damrongtamprasroet, a 13-year-old singer whose cultivated rapt audiences by featuring the heritage of the Thailand-Myanmar border district of Kanchanaburi she calls home.
“I was so excited and also very happy that people recognised me,” Jasmin told BBC. “People ask to take pictures with me.”
The daughter of ethnic Karen migrants, Jasmin has become an online sensation for her covers which include Passenger’s “Let Her Go,” Maroon 5’s “Payphone” and “Ther” by Cocktail which scored over a million views.
Her mother Ni Mar reportedly left Myanmar in 1989 to seek a better life across the border. There she met Soe Htut, another ethnic Karen who’d fled to Thailand. They settled and started a family in Sangkhlaburi district, where Jasmin was born a Thai citizen.
Jasmin wants to continue her education in Bangkok and fulfill her dream to be a successful singer.
“I want to study in Bangkok, where I will have better chance to learn at a music school,” Jasmin said. “I want to be a singer.”
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