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Như Quỳnh
Lê Lâm Quỳnh Như ( or ; born 9 September 1970), known professionally as Như Quỳnh ( or ), is a Vietnamese Americans, Vietnamese-American singer. Performing Vietnamese popular music in the Overseas Vietnamese, diaspora, she is internationally known for her vocal style, as well as duets with musicians like Thế Sơn and :vi:Trường Vũ, Trường Vũ, with whom they have been noted to "link international Vietnamese music to Vietnam itself". Biography and career 1970–1994: Early life Lê Lâm Quỳnh Như was born in Đông Hà, Quảng Trị Province, South Vietnam, on 9 September 1970, to father Lê Văn Chánh, as the oldest child with two younger brothers, one named Tường Khuê. Her mother, an employee of the Bank of Commerce before the Fall of Saigon, was going to name her Đông Hà, after her birthplace but decided to name her Lâm Quỳnh Như instead. She was born sickly, and nearly died. For most of her childhood, her family lived through economic trou ...
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Đông Hà
Đông Hà () is the capital of Quảng Trị Province, Vietnam. Đông Hà is situated at the crossroads of National Highway 1A and Route 9, part of the East–West Economic Corridor (EWEC). It lies on the North–South Railway (Reunification Express) and is served by Đông Hà Railway Station. EWEC is an economic development program which includes northeast Thailand, Southern Laos, and central Vietnam. History The city was initially part of Champa, until it was conquered by the Qin Empire who were in control of most of Vietnam at the time. In the 2nd century CE, the Cham people rebelled against Chinese rule. During the 14th and 15th century, ethnic Vietnamese gradually replaced the Cham inhabitants. During the Vietnam War, Đông Hà was the northernmost town in South Vietnam and was the location of a strategically important United States Marine Corps Đông Hà Combat Base, to support Marine positions along the Vietnamese Demilitarized Zone (DMZ).Keith W. Nolan ''The St ...
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Duy Quang
Duy Quang (né Pham Duy Quang; 4 November 1950 in Hanoi – 19 December 2012 in San Jose, California) was a Vietnamese American singer, best remembered for singing pop music from Vietnam in genre of yellow music, most notably composed by his father Phạm Duy Phạm Duy (5 October 1921 – 27 January 2013) was one of Vietnam's most prolific songwriters with a musical career that spanned more than seven decades through some of the most turbulent periods of Vietnamese history and with more than one .... References 1950 births 2012 deaths Vietnamese singers American people of Vietnamese descent {{Vietnam-singer-stub ...
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Vũ Khanh
Vũ Khanh or Vũ Công Khanh (born April 1, 1954, in Hanoi) is a Vietnamese singer. Biography Vũ Khanh was born in a family of 11 children - and was the only one to follow a profession in singing. He graduated from the last class of the Saigon National School of Music and Drama. Despite his passion for music, his family could only afford him to study drama due to poverty. For many years, Vũ Khanh performed in cafes, clubs, and restaurants - before he was able to sing in the professional Ritz tea room (1978).Ca sĩ Vũ Khanh: Lần đầu cho 35 năm
(Singer Vũ Khanh: First time after 35 years) thethaovanhoa.vn, February 27, 2012
He started to come into people's attention after performing the song "Cô hàng nước" at a music festival in San Diego (USA) in 197 ...
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Hoàng Oanh
Huỳnh Kim Chi, also known by the stage name Hoàng Oanh (born 6 November 1946), is a Vietnamese singer. Born in Mỹ Tho, she was popular during the 1970s before the Fall of Saigon, then emigrated to the United States. She is still popular among Vietnamese overseas as a singer of traditional music.Tony Ruprecht ''Toronto's Many Faces'' 2010 Page 421 "..videos and cassettes. Artists include Khanh Ly, Elvis Phuong, Ngoc Minh, and Duy Quang Duy Quang (né Pham Duy Quang; 4 November 1950 in Hanoi – 19 December 2012 in San Jose, California) was a Vietnamese American singer, best remembered for singing pop music from Vietnam in genre of yellow music, most notably composed by his fat .... Hoang Oanh is a popular singer of traditional music." References 20th-century Vietnamese women singers 1946 births Living people People from Mỹ Tho Vietnamese emigrants to the United States {{Vietnam-musician-stub ...
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Khánh Ly
Khánh Ly (born as Nguyễn Thị Lệ Mai; 6 March 1945 in Hanoi) is a Vietnamese-American singer. She performed many songs written by Vietnamese composer Trịnh Công Sơn and rose to fame in the 1960s. She married South Vietnam journalist Nguyễn Hoàng Đoan in 1975. Life and career Early life Khánh Ly was born to a traditional family and grew up in Hanoi. As a child, she would fall asleep to her father's soothing voice. His serenades planted inside her a love for music, which grew stronger every day against her family's wishes. In 1954, at the age of 9, she entered a small contest in the city of Hanoi singing Thơ Ngây; she did not win. By 1956, she accompanied her mother to the southern regions of Vietnam. At the end of that very same year, she secretly entered a children's talent-search contest produced by Pháp-Á production at Norodom Stage in Saigon. Mai traveled to the contest by sneaking into the back of transport trucks and hitching a ride from Đà Lạt City ...
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Ý Lan
Ý Lan is a Vietnamese-American female singer. Her full name is Lê Thị Ý Lan. She was born on January 1, 1958, in Saigon, in an artistic-traditioned family. Her mother was the singer Thái Thanh, and her father is actor Lê Quỳnh. Ý Lan attended primary and secondary school in Saigon. Despite her family's artistic tradition, she entered the professional music industry quite late: it was not until the late 1980s that she became a professional singer and released her first musical CD. Ý Lan currently lives in California California is a state in the Western United States, located along the Pacific Coast. With nearly 39.2million residents across a total area of approximately , it is the most populous U.S. state and the 3rd largest by area. It is also the m ... (United States). Discography Overseas * DVD The Best of Ý Lan from Paris By Night (Thúy Nga, 2010) * DVD The Best of MTV Music Vũ Khanh - Ý Lan (Diễm xưa, 2004) * CD Hát Để Cho Đời - with ...
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Khánh Hà
Khánh Hà (born 28 March 1952 in Đà Lạt) is a Vietnamese singer. Her older brother is Tuấn Ngọc.Popular music and communication - Page 223 James Lull - 1992 "Linda Trang Dai, who along with Khanh Ha and Ngoc Lan are the Vietnamese community's most famous singers, ..." Two of her songs appear in the film ''Gleaming the Cube''. Early life Her full name is Lã Thị Khánh Hà, also known as Lữ Khánh Hà. She was born on February 28, 1952 in Da Lat. Her father, Lữ Liên is a musician. Due to the influence of her father, she and her 6 siblings later followed a career in singing and became famous singers abroad, including Bích Chiêu, Tuấn Ngọc, Anh Tú, Thúy Anh, Lan Anh and Lưu Bích. Career At the age of 16, Khánh Hà performed for the first time for the National Lottery event at Thong Nhat theater. In 1969, she appeared in the "Hippies À GoGo" program organized weekly at Queen Bee discotheque on Nguyen Hue Street, Saigon. Later that year, she joine ...
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Hương Lan
Hương Lan, real name Trần Thị Ngọc Ánh ( Saigon, 1955) is a Vietnamese popular singer. The eldest of five children, she moved to France France (), officially the French Republic ( ), is a country primarily located in Western Europe. It also comprises of overseas regions and territories in the Americas and the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans. Its metropolitan area ... in 1978 and has since been linked to artist Hữu Phước. References 1956 births Vietnamese emigrants to France Living people 20th-century Vietnamese women singers {{Vietnam-bio-stub ...
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Homeland
A homeland is a place where a cultural, national, or racial identity has formed. The definition can also mean simply one's country of birth. When used as a proper noun, the Homeland, as well as its equivalents in other languages, often has ethnic nationalist connotations. A homeland may also be referred to as a ''fatherland'', a ''motherland'', or a ''mother country'', depending on the culture and language of the nationality in question. Motherland Motherland refers to a ''mother country'', i.e. the place in which somebody grew up or had lived for a long enough period that somebody has formed their own cultural identity, the place that one's ancestors lived for generations, or the place that somebody regards as home, or a Metropole in contrast to its colonies. People often refer to Mother Russia as a personification of the Russian nation. The Philippines is also considered as a motherland which is derived from the word "''Inang Bayan''" which means "Motherland". Within the B ...
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Mezzo-soprano
A mezzo-soprano or mezzo (; ; meaning "half soprano") is a type of classical female singing voice whose vocal range lies between the soprano and the contralto voice types. The mezzo-soprano's vocal range usually extends from the A below middle C to the A two octaves above (i.e. A3–A5 in scientific pitch notation, where middle C = C4; 220–880 Hz). In the lower and upper extremes, some mezzo-sopranos may extend down to the F below middle C (F3, 175 Hz) and as high as "high C" (C6, 1047 Hz). The mezzo-soprano voice type is generally divided into the coloratura, lyric, and dramatic mezzo-soprano. History While mezzo-sopranos typically sing secondary roles in operas, notable exceptions include the title role in Bizet's '' Carmen'', Angelina (Cinderella) in Rossini's ''La Cenerentola'', and Rosina in Rossini's ''Barber of Seville'' (all of which are also sung by sopranos and contraltos). Many 19th-century French-language operas give the leading female role to mezzos, includin ...
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Soprano
A soprano () is a type of classical female singing voice and has the highest vocal range of all voice types. The soprano's vocal range (using scientific pitch notation) is from approximately middle C (C4) = 261  Hz to "high A" (A5) = 880 Hz in choral music, or to "soprano C" (C6, two octaves above middle C) = 1046 Hz or higher in operatic music. In four-part chorale style harmony, the soprano takes the highest part, which often encompasses the melody. The soprano voice type is generally divided into the coloratura, soubrette, lyric, spinto, and dramatic soprano. Etymology The word "soprano" comes from the Italian word '' sopra'' (above, over, on top of),"Soprano"
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