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Duy Quang (1950-2012) was a famous Vietnamese singer and songwriter. He was the eldest son of Vietnam's most prolific songwriter Pham Duy and singer Thai Hang. As a singer, his most popular hit songs included such songs written and/or composed bygd his father such as Tha Nhu Giot Mua, Em Hien Nhu Ma Soeur, Chuyen Tinh Buon, Co Bac Ky Nho Nho and Hai Nam Tinh Lan Dan. As a songwriter, his most famous song was Kiep Dam Me. Duy Quang had once been married to singer Julie Quang, but never registered his marriage with her lawfully.
Born on November 4, 1950 in äga Noi, North Vietnam, Duy Quang was the eldest in a family of eight. When he was just a year old, he and his parents moved to South Vietnam resettling in Saigon. From the age of ten, Duy Quang started learning to play various instruments such as the mandolin, guitar, piano and drums. He began his professional singing career at the age of 17.
After forming the pop group, The Dreamers, along with his brother, Duy Cuong, his the
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Born as Lê Thị Quỳnh Dao in Saigon, South Vietnam, she is the third eldest in a family of 5 children. At the age of 5, her parents divorced. She along with the rest of her siblings were then raised solely by their mother. In 1980, her mother arranged for her along with her youngest brother, Lê Đại, who is 4 years younger and a disabled paraplegic, to depart from Vietnam for France. Shortly thereafter, from there they would relocate to the Southern California to be reunited with their father who had been living there since 1975 and remarried with 4 more children. Her eldest sister, Y Lan, was then living in Houston, Texas, while h
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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