Singer Elvis Phuong: Once kicked out of the house because of his passion for singing, his wife is the biggest motivation in life

For audiences like us, sometimes we can only see the artist under the sparkling light of the spotlight, thinking that to become a monument in the hearts of fans is simply a matter of little talent, beauty. But in fact, in order to get the appropriate results, they had to make endless efforts, go through countless challenges before they could live their whole life with the profession.

The glorious career of a singer

Elvis Phuong's real name is Pham Ngoc Phuong, born in 1945 in Binh Duong, in a well-to-do Western intellectual family. His parents are from Huong Son district, Ha Tinh province, but moved to Binh Duong in the 1940s. His father was an architect and a professor of French.

Elvis Phuong is the eldest son in the family with 8 younger sisters (including singer Kieu Nga) and 1 younger brother. From the age of 5, he attended kindergarten at the French school Aurore, so he had a fairly early exposure to Western music. He studied French until he passed the double baccalaureate exam. As a child, he often listened to French music in school, and music has been absorbed into him gradually since then. When he was young, he was in the same class as artist Thanh Nga.

He performed in public for the first time in 1962 at the Regina Pacis seminary. The first song Elvis Phuong performed was Midnight on the Street by musician Truc Phuong. He participated in many bands such as Rockin' Stars, Les Vampires... As one of the first stirrings of Saigon's youth music movement in the Phuong Hoang band, there were Nguyen Trung Cang and Le Huu Ha at that time. .. later became a singer who can sing many genres from rock, pop, lyrical to lyrical country songs.

At that time, he only sang foreign music with the name Ngoc Phuong, looked like the famous American singer at that time, Elvis Presley with long bass, handsome face, so a friend suggested he change to using the stage name Elvis Phuong.

Having been a freelance singer for a while, then Elvis Phuong joined in singing in musician Ngoc Chanh's Shotguns band from the late 1960s. He was also a regular vocalist in famous Shotguns bands. and is still heard by the audience after 50 years. Among the songs Elvis Phuong has recorded for the Shotguns, there are two most typical songs, The Vengeance on the Back of a Wild Horse and Ao Anh Sat Tu Duong Ta, with the whistling sound in the interlude that has created the Elvis Phuong brand. This is also the time for 2 consecutive years that he was awarded the Kim Khanh Award for the title of the most favorite young singer, voted by the readers of the White Black newspaper.

Was kicked out of the house for singing

Talking with Thuy Nga at episode 99 of the show Knocking on the Door, the singer Elvis Phuong emotionally recounted his childhood of passion for music, and was so fond of rock king Elvis Presley that he took the stage name based on the idol's name. . Despite his singing potential, the male artist did not receive support from his biological father. He was even banned so violently that he had to pack up and leave the house when he was only 16 years old.

The voice of Vengeance on the back of a wild horse tearfully recounted: "My father was the first to protest. When I got my baccalaureate degree, he said he would take care of all the papers and find a school so that I could go to France to study abroad. I just asked my father to let me go to Vung Tau so I can have time to think. When I come back, I think I will agree, prepare my things and leave right next week. singer, didn't want to go to school anymore..As soon as he finished speaking, his father slapped me twice and fell to the ground.My father said: "This house does not contain anyone who works as a singer. If you want to be a singer, then gather your clothes out of the house today. Don't stay in this house anymore.” I went back to my room to see Elvis Presley letters, pictures, CDs, broken phonograph, and tears in my eyes, grabbed some clothes and left.It wasn't until 1-2 years later, after a year. When I came home from singing, I saw my mother waiting inside and said that my father missed me, so I went home."

Wife is the biggest driving force in life

With a warm, inspiring voice, Elvis Phuong was discovered by musician Le Huu Ha and invited to record the song "Love you". From that time, he accepted to join the band Phuong Hoang, stirring up the youth music in Saigon at that time and reaching the peak of his career.

The music path is increasingly open, Elvis Phuong has the opportunity to perform and interact with the "pink ball" in the entertainment world. However, the innocence, innocence and simplicity of Mrs. Phan Le Hoa made him flutter right from the first meeting, eating a bowl of burnt porridge still praised all the words.

Referring to the unforgettable memory, the male artist immediately thinks of the first death with the companion of his wife. He confided: "If I had had heart surgery that year without Le Hoa by my side, I would have died a long time ago. I went to sing in France, the way to the airport was very long. I had to stop for a little while. The chest pain was too unbearable. When I got there, Hoa told me to go to the doctor. The doctor found that the blood path to the heart was 98% blocked, which means that I could die suddenly and have to be hospitalized for urgent surgery." .

According to the vocalist born in 1945, despite living together for more than 40 years and having a son, he and his wife are still very romantic, never raising their voices to each other. Elvis Phuong expressed: "I promise my wife that I will sing until I'm 104 years old, live until I'm confused. When I can't sing anymore, the first person who knows I can't sing is my wife, no one else."

Meanwhile, Ms. Le Hoa confided that even though she has always followed her husband for more than 40 years, whenever she hears Elvis Phuong sing, she still feels moved. Referring to her husband, Ms. Le Hoa is proud to be the one who has always been attached to and accompanied him to the point of "no freedom of her own" because her husband is always attached to his wife.

"Going to sing now is just fun, he said if he can't sing, he doesn't know what to do. When the heart surgery was done, he said he must have returned to Vietnam, went to the mountains to practice his voice again. He was in love and in love. He said that if he stopped singing, he would die before that happened. Actually, when I first came to Vietnam, I didn't like it very much, but I liked him so much, the people around him loved him so much that I liked him. The couple decided to go back and forth. He was so addicted to singing that he couldn't do anything besides singing. He never wanted his wife to leave even a single step. I went to get my hair done and he sat outside the door waiting all the time. 2 hours

Listening to the career story, the touching love story of two people, Thuy Nga couldn't help but admire the rare and hard-to-find predestined relationship. She expressed: "Elvis Phuong's love affair with Ms. Hoa was like an arrangement of a previous life. It was too fast but not dangerous but lasted for more than 40 years".

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