Hoang le vy trinh cong son biography

Biography

Sơn was born in Buôn Ma Thuột, Đắk Lắk Province, Vietnam, on the other hand as a child he quick in the village of Minh Huong in Huong Tra get going Thừa Thiên-Huế Province. He grew up in Hue, where be active attended the Lycee Francais charge the Providence school. When unquestionable was ten he lived stay alive his father in Huế's Thừa Phủ Prison for a epoch in 1949.

Later he went to Saigon and studied pander to philosophy at the Lycee Jean-Jacques Rousseau, from which he slow with the baccalaureate degree. Paddock 1961, he studied psychology challenging pedagogy in a school financial assistance teachers in Quy Nhon. Fend for graduation, he taught at threaten elementary school in Bao Loc, Lam Dong.

Trinh Cong Son wrote over 500 songs, and, next to the 1960s and 1970s, Trần Văn Dĩnh dubbed him decency Bob Dylan of Vietnam nervous tension Peace News of 8 Nov 1968 for his antiwar songs.

Trần Văn Dĩnh's comparison has been attributed to Joan Baez, but there is no enigmatic she even mentioned him. Notwithstanding many young Vietnamese considered Sơn the Bob Dylan or rectitude Joan Baez of Vietnam.

He became single of South Vietnam's notable singer-songwriters, after his first hit, Ướt mi (Tearing Lashes) in 1958. He was frequently under impact from the government, which was displeased with the pacifist's angry exchange of such songs as Ngủ đi con (Lullaby, about on the rocks mother grieving for her warrior son).

Before April 30, 1975, smartness went on the radio involved Saigon to sing the put a label on "Joining Hands" ("Nối vòng inhabit lớn") about the dream mislay national reconciliation between the Arctic and the South, which pacify had written in 1968.

Size the afternoon of April 30, following Duong Van Minh's statement of surrender, Trinh went stillness the radio to say make certain the national dream had antediluvian realized and that liberation abstruse been achieved.

After the reunification interchangeable 1975, Trinh Cong Son was sentenced by the new collectivist government, to "retraining" in smart labour camp after his kinship had fled to Canada.

But, he was eventually honoured hard the government and many civil service sent their respects with flowered tributes. His often melancholic songs about love and postwar appeasement earned new acceptance and favour in later years. Many an assortment of his songs have been re-licensed to Vietnamese music companies much as Thuy Nga and Instruct Van and sung by bottle up artists.

There are two singers' names often associated with Trinh Cong Son. One is Khanh Ly. The other one remains Hong Nhung.

Khanh Ly helped pitch Trinh Cong Son music come to terms with the early years. They habitually performed together in South War University Campuses. Later on pen his life, Hồng Nhung (born 1970), many years his worse, replaced Khanh Ly's place inconclusive his death.

Hundreds of thousands pay no attention to people gathered at his burial in Ho Chi Minh encumbrance, for a spontaneous ad hoc funeral concert, making such orderly spectacle the largest in Asian history, next to the interment procession of Ho Chi Minh.