Singer Quynh Giao: crystal clear voice, comes from "Hoang Phai" - niece of King Minh Mang

Quynh Giao was known as a famous singer before 1975, she possessed a high, crystal clear voice. Many loving viewers often call her a singer with "glass singing".

Besides the sweet, attractive voice; Singer Quynh Giao is also famous as a person with extensive knowledge of music and art. In addition, Quynh Giao also shows her talent in the field of writing.

Quynh Giao was born on October 8, 1946, in Vy Da - the ancient capital of Hue; Her nickname is Nguyen Phuoc Cong Tang Ton Nu Doan Trang. In classical terms about her status, Quynh Giao belongs to the "Royal Sect" lineage because she has two parents, Ung Qua and the famous singer Minh Trang.

His father is Nguyen Phuoc Ung Qua, known as Van Han (1905-1951), he is the grandson of Tuy Ly Vuong Mien Trinh (from Khon Chuong, known as Tinh Pho) - the 11th son of King Minh Mang and King Thieu's brother. Treat. Teacher Ung Qua was an erudite scholar, respected by French Vietnamese researchers, and a master of a generation of professors, who later had many deans of independent universities.

Scholar Ung Guo used to teach Crown Prince Bao Long; Formerly the Principal of Quoc Hoc School in Hue, the director of the Trung Phan School of Education under the Ministry of Education of Vietnam during the French period and the author of many editorial works on Vietnamese culture and fine arts. In addition, he is also a sound judge, connoisseur of music and knows how to play the moon when having fun.

The mother of singer Quynh Giao is artist Minh Trang, whose nickname is Nguyen Thi Ngoc Tram, is the daughter of Thuong Thu Nguyen Hy. She is the granddaughter of Princess Cong Tang Ton Nu Ton Sui, ie My Luong Princess.

Ms. Ngoc Tram was born in 1921, graduated from the French Baccalaureate, she worked as a French-Vietnamese bilingual editor and announcer in the field of radio since the French era. She took the stage name Minh Trang from singing for French radio station at the dawn of Vietnamese new music.

Her stage name is a combination of the names of her son and daughter, two artists Buu Minh and Doan Trang. It is known that Buu Minh is a famous violinist, sitting in the concert master chair of the Stuttgart Symphony Orchestra in Germany.

Due to her bloodline and living in a musical environment, Quynh Giao has had a talent for music since childhood. When her mother - singer Minh Trang set up the first children's singing group, Thieu Sinh Nhi Dong, Doan Trang and her brother attended, with children's songs by Mai Huong, Bich Chieu, Bach Tuyet, Kim Chi, Quoc. Thang and Tuan Ngoc....

When she just entered elementary school, Quynh Giao studied music at the National School of Music (the school added a Drama Department later), she was taught piano by famous monk Do The Phiet and musician Hung Lan teach music theory.

With musician Hung Lan, Quynh Giao is one of his best students. After seven years of studying music, in 1963, Quynh Giao graduated valedictorian in piano and French music. Later, Quynh Giao continued to be mentored by a French vocal professor, called Madame Robin.

In 1961, when Mrs. Minh Trang was collaborating with musician Hoang Trong's Tay Ho band, she lost her voice due to asthma, so Quynh Giao was invited to sing instead of her mother. It is known that she was only 15 years old at the time. Since then, Quynh Giao has been going to school and singing at Saigon, Military, Voice of Freedom and Vietnam Radio and Television stations later, in the bands of Vu Thanh, Hoang Trong, Hoang Lang, Pham Duy, Anh Ngoc, etc...

Besides her singing career, since 1968, Quynh Giao also teaches piano at home about Western classical music. Also during this time, she got married and gave birth to a daughter, Duong Ngoc Bao Co, who later graduated with a bachelor's degree in Education in the United States.

On April 24, 1975, Quynh Giao, her husband and children left Vietnam to live in Annandale city, Virginia. In a faraway country, Quynh Giao almost stopped all music activities, in addition to continuing to open piano lessons and occasionally performing a few memorabilia tapes that she herself played and sang.

In 1988 and 1989, Quynh Giao and two singers, Kim Tuoc and Mai Huong, performed Cung Tien's music; with chamber orchestras of American musicians in Northern and Southern California, Chicago and Minnesota.

In 1990, Quynh Giao remarried with economic expert Nguyen Xuan Nghia - later a commentator collaborating with international radio stations and Vietnamese-language newspapers in the United States. Quynh Giao has been living in Cali since 1991.

In Cali, Quynh Giao had the opportunity to expand her new music activities. The female singer in turn performed many music discs of artistic value, mostly with Duy Cuong's harmonies, such as Khuc Nguyet Quynh, Bells of Afternoon Autumn, Afternoon On the River, Pictures of an Afternoon...

In 1986, on the occasion of the 65th birthday of musician Pham Duy, from the East, Quynh Giao had an article published in Van Hoc newspaper. Then there is a song about musician Vu Thanh who passed away in 1987.

Encouraged by writer Nguyen Mong Giac then in charge of Van Hoc, Quynh Giao wrote more from essays to short stories for Van Hoc and other periodicals, including the 21st Century. music topics, almost like an autobiography about the world of Vietnamese new music, her writings are interesting to readers...

In October 2011, Nguoi Viet newspaper published the journal Quynh Giao, a popular book with 67 articles on more than 400 pages. In 2012, Quynh Giao was about to finish the second book when she fell in the garden and was seriously injured. After an elaborate surgery in May, use of the left hand was impeded. The piano class opened decades ago is considered to be over.

In the spring of 2014, Quynh Giao thought she was coughing because she had a cold, she treated it in the usual way, but it didn't stop. In early March, when she lost her voice, Quynh Giao was taken by ambulance to the hospital and discovered that she had lung cancer.

After more than four months of chemotherapy and radiation therapy, Quynh Giao gradually weakened physically, but her mind was still clear and optimistic. Until she had to regularly use an oxygen tube and deal with many complications, her health situation became more critical.

On Tuesday night, early on Wednesday, July 23, the once famous female singer - Quynh Giao quietly passed away peacefully in her sleep, at the mercy of her husband and children.

Musician Duy Trac once commented on the female singer: "Quynh Giao sings clearly and comfortably, it seems that she doesn't need any effort when singing. Quynh Giao's integration with the songs she sings is a well-thought-out integration.

It seems that when singing Quynh Giao also wants to affirm the separation between the voice, the song and the listener, even though it is a reciprocal relationship. The necessary distance, the truth, can not be erased and only when people are so clearly aware, can the enjoyment really be serious.