Lang Van (Vietnamese: Làng Văn) is a Vietnamese production company based in Westminster, CA and Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.

History

Làng Văn (translated as ‘Village of Poetry’ in English) was founded in 1982. It was one of the first Vietnamese production companies to be established in the United States after Thanh Lan Productions, and the very first to open in

Westminster, CA Westminster is a city in northern Orange County, California, known for its many Vietnamese refugees who immigrated to the city during the 1980s. They settled largely in Little Saigon, and the city is known as the "capital" of overseas Vietnames ...

. It is one of the oldest music companies in Little Saigon, Orange County. As a production company, it has released and owns the rights to more than 1,000 original titles in audio and video formats such as ''Thế Giới Nghệ Thuật (The World of Arts)'' and Lunar New Year

Tết Tết (), short for Tết Nguyên Đán ( Chữ Hán: 節元旦), Spring Festival, Lunar New Year, or Vietnamese Lunar New Year is one of the most important celebrations in Vietnamese culture. The colloquial term "Tết" is a shortened form of ...

Festival programs in both the United States and Vietnam. They have signed exclusive contracts to produce and publish recordings with iconic Vietnamese artists such as

Chế Linh Chế Linh ( cjm, Jamlen; b. 1942) is a Vietnamese popular singer, songwriter. An ethnic Cham, his stage name Chế Linh is a Vietnamese transcription of his Cham name, but, like many Cham people, he also has an official Vietnamese legal name, ...

Tuấn Vũ Nguyễn Văn Tài (born 16 December 1959), stage name Tuấn Vũ, is a Vietnamese singer. Biography Tuấn Vũ was born in Bình Thuận Province, Vietnam. He migrated to the US in 1979 and settled in San Francisco, California. He then fo ...

, Elvis Phương,

Duy Khánh Nguyễn Văn Diệp, stage name Duy Khánh (1936 in Triệu Phước village Triệu Phong – 12 February 2003 in Fountain Valley) was a Vietnamese songwriter. He was one of the many singers and songwriters to settle in " Quận Cam" (Ora ...

, and

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 Wester ...

. Furthermore, the company also operates and produces in Vietnam. It has produced the live show/concert series ''Duyên Dáng Việt Nam (Charming Vietnam)'' for five consecutive years (15, 16, 17, 18 and 19) as well as various works of

cải lương ''Tuồng cải lương'' (, Hán-Nôm: 從改良) often referred to as cải lương ( Chữ Hán: 改良), roughly "reformed theater") is a form of modern folk opera in Vietnam. It blends southern Vietnamese folk songs, classical music, '' há ...

(known as Vietnamese Opera), comedy, karaoke, and educational and children's programming in Vietnam. A popular children's program it produces is

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Controversy

According to Techinasia, Lang Van filed the biggest law suit against a Vietnamese tech company in the US, as of 2014, for copyright infringements by VNG, as well as its venture capitalist firm IDG Ventures Vietnam.

Operations

From 2000-2005, it expanded their operations into acquisitions and distribution and acquired multiple Vietnamese music companies such as ''New Castle'', ''Nguoi Dep Binh Duong'', ''Truong Son Duy Khanh'', ''Thuy Anh'', ''Doremi'' and others. During this time period to the present, Làng Văn affiliated with various Vietnam-based productions to distribute their titles internationally. Làng Văn has 6 retail stores domestically and abroad including, Paris, France, the historic Asian Garden Mall (Phước Lộc Thọ) now closed in Westminster, California and

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. Lang Van is the only US-based Vietnamese production company to operate both in the United States and Vietnam. It has retail stores in Westminster (

Little Saigon Little Saigon ( vi, Sài Gòn nhỏ or Tiểu Sài Gòn) is a name given to ethnic enclaves of expatriate Vietnamese mainly in English-speaking countries. Alternate names include Little Vietnam and Little Hanoi (mainly in historically communist ...

) and San Jose, CA, Paris, France, Washington D.C., Houston, TX, and Atlanta, GA.

Notable artists

Many of the artists that Làng Văn has signed exclusive contracts with also appear regularly in the popular '' Paris By Night'' series. *

* Tuấn Vũ * Elvis Phương *

Lynda Trang Đài Lê Quang Quý Trang Đài, also known by the stage name Lynda Trang Đài (born October 9, 1968 in Đà Nẵng), is a Vietnamese American singer. She has appeared in many of the Paris By Night shows of Thuy Nga Productions, for example Paris By ...

Phi Nhung Phạm Phi Nhung (10 April 1970 – 28 September 2021) was a Vietnamese-American singer, actress and humanitarian. She specialised in Dan Ca and Tru Tinh music. She sang for Paris By Night and Van Son and also acted in their plays and Tinh p ...

Thanh Lan Thanh Lan (born 1948) is an Vietnamese American popular songstress and actress. Biography Phạm Thái Thanh Lan was born on 1 March 1948 in (maybe) Vinh town, Nghệ An province of the State of Vietnam (now Vinh city, Nghệ An province, Viet ...

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 comm ...

Ngọc Lan Maria Lê Thanh Lan, stage name Ngọc Lan "Jade Orchid" (Nha Trang, 28 December 1956 - California, 6 March 2001), was a famous overseas Vietnamese singer-lyricist known for covering nostalgic French-language love songs. Among her biggest hits incl ...

It has also produced the recordings of famed Vietnamese artist

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 Ng ...

and has re-licensed many songs by legendary Vietnamese songwriters

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 ...

and

Trịnh Công Sơn Trịnh Công Sơn (February 28, 1939 – April 1, 2001) was a Vietnamese, musician, songwriter, painter and poet. He is widely considered to be Vietnam's best songwriter. His music explores themes of love, loss, and anti-war sentiments during ...

. Its music was also featured in the 1993 Vietnamese-language film '' The Scent of Green Papaya'', which was shortlisted for

Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film The Academy Award for Best International Feature Film (known as Best Foreign Language Film prior to 2020) is one of the Academy Awards handed out annually by the U.S.-based Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS). It is given to a ...

Phong Le

In 2009, Làng Văn distributed

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artist Phong Le's debut album ''Lấy Tiền Cho Gái''.L. T 2009, "Phong Lê: Ca nhạc sĩ Rap đầu tiên trong làng nhạc Việt hải ngọai", ''Nguoi Viet''.

References

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External links

asiangardenmall.com

langvan.com

vmdb.com
Music production companies Vietnamese-American culture in California Asian-American mass media Record producers from California Companies based in Westminster, California Privately held companies based in California Music organizations based in Vietnam