Như Quỳnh (singer)
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 tro ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Đông Hà
Đông Hà () is the capital of Quảng Trị Province, in the North Central Coast region, the Central of Vietnam. As of 2024, the city's population is approximately about 164,228 people. It is located north of Huế and south of Đồng Hới in Quảng Bình Province. 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 admixed with 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 Story of an Armored Cavalry Squadron in Vietnam: 1-1 Cav, 1967-1968'' ... Just north of Đông Hà on April 6 the corresponden ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Paris By Night
''Paris by Night'' (commonly abbreviated as ''PBN'') is a direct-to-video series featuring Vietnamese-language musical variety shows produced by Thúy Nga Productions. Hosted mainly by Nguyễn Ngọc Ngạn and Nguyễn Cao Kỳ Duyên, the series includes musical performances by modern pop stars, traditional folk songs, one-act plays, and sketch comedy. Background ''Paris by Night'' was conceived by immigrant Tô Văn Lai in 1983, in Paris, France, to "fill the cultural void" felt by Vietnamese refugees living in France. Shortly afterwards, the show's production company transferred to Orange County, California, which has a larger Vietnamese community. Themes The show is set up with "melodramatic performances, catchy pop tunes, Vaudeville-esque comedy, and elaborate set designs", with a large emphasis of production focusing on expressing Vietnamese culture. In recent years, the rising popularity of K-pop and J-pop has applied creative pressure to Thúy Nga CEO Marie Tô ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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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 20th-century Vietnamese male singers Musicians from Hanoi American people of Vietnamese descent {{Vietnam-singer-stub ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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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 ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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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 The United States of America (USA), also known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It is a federal republic of 50 U.S. state, states and a federal capital district, Washington, D.C. The 48 .... 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. 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 ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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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 a love for music inside her, which grew stronger every day against her family's wishes. In 1954, at 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 to Saigon ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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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 U.S. state, state in the Western United States that lies on the West Coast of the United States, Pacific Coast. It borders Oregon to the north, Nevada and Arizona to the east, and shares Mexico–United States border, an ... (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 ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Khánh Hà
Khánh Hà (born 28 March 1952 in Đà Lạt) is a Vietnamese people, 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, :vi:Lữ Liên, 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, Lữ Lan Anh, Lan Anh and :vi:Lưu Bích, 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 discotheq ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Hương Lan
Hương Lan, real name Trần Thị Ngọc Ánh (Saigon, 1956) is a Vietnamese popular singer. Early life The eldest of five children, she moved to France in 1978 and has since been linked to artist Hữu Phước. Personal life She got married for the first time in late 1975 with her co-star Chí Tâm. However, in 1982, the two divorced while settling in France France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe. Overseas France, Its overseas regions and territories include French Guiana in South America, Saint Pierre and Miquelon in the Atlantic Ocean#North Atlan .... The two have two sons together: Henry Bảo Duong (born 1977) and Patrick Bảo Duong (born 1978). In early 1986, at the birthday party of singer Elvis Phương, she met Mr. Đặng Quốc Toàn, an aeronautical mechanical engineer. The two fell in love and officially got married in 1988. Mr. Toan had three children of his own before going back to live with her. She i ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Homeland
A homeland is a place where a national or ethnic 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 Briti ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Mezzo-soprano
A mezzo-soprano (, ), or mezzo ( ), is a type of classical music, classical female singing human voice, 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. History While mezzo-sopranos typically sing secondary roles in operas, notable exceptions include the title role in Georges Bizet, Bizet's ''Carmen'', Angelina (Cinderella) in Gioachino Rossini, Rossini's ''La Cenerentola'', and Rosina in Rossini's ''The Barber of Seville, Barber of Seville'' (all of which are also sung by sopranos and contraltos). Many 19th-century French- ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Soprano
A soprano () is a type of classical 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 Hertz, Hz to A5 in Choir, choral music, or to soprano C (C6) 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 soprano, coloratura, soubrette, lyric soprano, lyric, spinto soprano, spinto, and dramatic soprano, dramatic soprano. Etymology The word "soprano" comes from the Italian word ''wikt:sopra, sopra'' (above, over, on top of),"Soprano" ''Encyclopædia Britannica'' as the soprano is the highest pitch human voice, often given to the leading female roles in operas. "Soprano" refers ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |