Tiger Girls bring a touch of spice to Burma's music scene

Burma's answer to 90s British pop group the Spice Girls challenges expectations under the country's ruling military juntaThe four singers are just launching into the chorus when the music goes dead. The power has cut out, as it does a couple of times a day in Burma's crumbling former capital, taking with it their backing tracks, the lights and the air-conditioning. The girls sing on, undeterred by the sweltering heat of their boxy rehearsal studio or the noisy city outside.The Spice Girls never ...

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