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
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.
He migrated to the
US in 1979 and settled in
San Francisco
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,
California
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. He then followed a profession in singing and became a well-known name in the
yellow music
Yellow Music is a genre of popular music. The term has been used in China and Vietnam to describe types of music that have separate origins.
China
Yellow Music () or Yellow Songs () was a label used to describe early generations of Chinese popul ...
genre. To date, he has recorded over 1,400 songs of various genres.
Poet
Nguyên Sa gave Tuấn Vũ the title "Phượng Hoàng" ("Phoenix" in Vietnamese), which - as the singer explained - might be a reference to his father's name (Phượng) and the name of one of his adopted child (Hoàng).
Tuấn Vũ returned to Vietnam for the first time in 2001.
During his return to Vietnam in July 2010, Tuấn Vũ performed for 6 nights at
Hanoi Opera House
The Hanoi Opera House (french: Opéra de Hanoï), or the Grand Opera House ( vi, Nhà hát lớn Hà Nội, french: Grand Opéra) is an opera house in central Hanoi, Vietnam. It was erected by the French colonial administration between 1901 and 191 ...
, Daewoo Hotel, as well as in many other northern provinces.
In November 2018, Tuấn Vũ returned to Vietnam again to hold a live show named "Mười năm tái ngộ" (Ten years of reunion), which took place at the
Vietnam National Convention Center
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on December 9.
Tuấn Vũ - giọng hát dung dị như cuộc đời - VnExpress Giải Trí
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See also
* Duy Khánh
* 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, ...
References
20th-century Vietnamese male singers
1959 births
Living people
People from Nghệ An province
People from Bình Thuận Province
Vietnamese Roman Catholics
Vietnamese emigrants to the United States
21st-century Vietnamese male singers
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