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Nguyễn Ánh 9
In this Vietnamese name, the surname is Nguyễn, but is often simplified to Nguyen in English-language text. In accordance with Vietnamese custom, this person should be referred to by the given name, Ánh.
Nguyễn Ánh 9 | |
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| Birth name | Nguyễn Đình Ánh |
| Born | (1940-01-01)1 January 1940 Ninh Thuận Province, Vietnam |
| Died | 14 April 2016(2016-04-14) (aged 76) Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam |
| Occupations | |
| Instrument | Piano |
| Years active | 1958–2016 |
Musical artist
Nguyễn Đình Ánh (1 January 1940 – 14 April 2016, baptismal name Jerome), known professionally as Nguyễn Ánh 9, was a Vietnamese songwriter and pianist.
Early life
[edit]He was born in Ninh Thuận Province, Vietnam on January 1, 1940 (according to other sources, he was born in 1939) and was the youngest of the three children of a well-off family. Nguyen Dinh Anh's family moved to Nha Trang and when he was 11, they moved to Saigon.
Nguyen Dinh Anh studied at Taberd until 1954 a
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Born in Can Tho, South Vietnam, Phuong Hong Ngoc was one of four children in an upper middle-class family. Her father was of French/Chinese-Vietnamese Eurasian descent originally from Hai Phong and worked as a French-language newspaper journalist and French professor in the Mekong Delta. Just as she was about to enter her teenage years, Phuong Hong Ngoc's happy childhood came to an abrupt ending when her father left her mother to marry her mother's younger sister. Her father would go on to have ten more children with his new wife.
Disheartened with her parents' divorce, Phuong Hong Ngoc found solace in music. That was when her mother enrolled her in legendary vocals teacher Nguyen Duc's music class. She was first recruited as a member of the musical youth singing troupe formed by Nguyen Duc called ABCwhere she was then known as Cam Hong. &n
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Thanh Lan
Vietnamese singer and recipient of political asylum in the United States
Thanh Lan (born 1 March 1948) is a popular Vietnamese American singer and actress. She was unable to leave Vietnam at the Fall of Saigon in 1975. In 1994 during a sponsored series of concerts in the United States, Vietnamese protesters accused her of colluding with the Hanoi government and being a communist sympathizer.[1] Although she had been a beloved singer during the 1970s, in the US she became the subject of forceful protests and even death threats.[2] She canceled all but one of her concerts, gave interviews pleading her case, and finally prevailed in her quest for asylum.[3]
Biography
[edit]Phạm Thái Thanh Lan was born on 1 March 1948 in Vinh town, Nghệ An, a province of the State of Vietnam (now Vinh city, Nghệ An province, Vietnam). Her saint's name is Catherine (which she would later use when registering for her first visa in the United States), but