Vũ Khanh or Vũ Công Khanh (born April 1, 1954, in Hanoi) is a
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singer
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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
Music is the arrangement of sound to create some combination of Musical form, form, harmony, melody, rhythm, or otherwise Musical expression, expressive content. Music is generally agreed to be a cultural universal that is present in all hum ...
, 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 1978.
Vũ Khanh's best co-star is 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 La ...
, the daughter of singer Thái Thanh
Thái Thanh (born Phạm Thị Băng Thanh; August 5, 1934 – March 17, 2020) was a Vietnamese-American singer. She was one of the most iconic singers of the Western-influenced popular music in Vietnam, known as ' New music of Vietnam' ().
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Reception
Composer Từ Công Phụng rated him as one of the best male oversea vocalists: "In terms male singers overseas, I currently recognize two talented and attractive vocalists, Tuấn Ngọc
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and Vũ Khanh."[ Many people compare Vũ Khanh with the male singer Sĩ Phú, due to similarities in their voice and performing style. He is also known for his performance of songs composed by famous musicians such as Trầm Tử Thiêng, ]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 ...
, Vũ Thành An, Từ Công Phụng, Song Ngọc, etc.Vũ Khanh, tiếng hát của tình yêu và niềm tin
(Vũ Khanh, the singer of love and faith) www.rfa.org, 2016-07-10
References
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20th-century Vietnamese male singers
1954 births
Living people
Vietnamese emigrants to the United States
Musicians from Hanoi
Vietnamese Roman Catholics