Milla dawt hniang biography of george

What people go through to live their lives — war and terror, disease and pain, poverty and hunger, long journeys across continents and oceans, loss and heartbreak — always leaves me awed and humbled. You hear a story, like the one I’m offering this Christmas, and you want to raise a glass to that thing we call human spirit.

Milla Dawt Hniang, who travels with crutches and guitar, has it in bunches.

It has taken her 20 years past the age when her parents thought she would die.

She’s a Burmese-born singer-songwriter about to release her first CD and send more music of the American country-pop variety — think Taylor Swift — into the world.

Milla sang in a coffee house in Columbia the other night, and, considering her life’s journey, that’s no small achievement.

The youngest of four children, she was born in the Chin province of western Burma (Myanmar), a mountainous region still considered one of the least developed areas of the countr