Singer Thanh Thuy: An illustrious career and a special relationship with Trinh Cong Son

Thanh Thuy is one of the leading singers of the new music and Bolero scene in Vietnam, once known as: "The Queen of Bolero, Rumba, Slow" or "Miss Artist".

The illustrious career of the female singer went into poetry the most

Thanh Thuy was born in 1943, 4 years younger than Trinh Cong Son and is also the son of a dreamy Hue, compatriot with musician Trinh family. Because Thanh Thuy's mother had a serious illness, her family had to leave the ancient capital to take her to Saigon for treatment.

Coming to Saigon, in order to earn more money for her mother's medicine, Thanh Thuy had to enter a singing career when she was 16 years old.

Although singing with the original purpose just to have money to support her mother, but thanks to her natural talent and beauty, Thanh Thuy has emerged as a top phenomenon in all tea rooms in Saigon.

For three consecutive years, according to a poll of readers of a newspaper, Thanh Thuy was voted as the most popular female singer.

In addition, with her strange charm, Thanh Thuy became a singer who entered the pen of many poets and writers.

Thanh Thuy possesses a loving, salty, slender, feminine beauty, with long black hair, classified as a beauty in the world of singers.

Not only that, her voice is also very special, so deep that it turns virtual, lonely and melancholy.

Since her appearance, Thanh Thuy has caused the most resonance in the Vietnamese music industry, reigning on radio waves, as well as television that day. She quickly became a big star on concert stages as well as tea rooms, with outstanding record sales.

In addition to beauty, Thanh Thuy is also known as a famous female singer with admirable virtue and morality, with a private life, although most famous but never noisy. Author Ho Truong An once wrote:

"Thanh Thuy is an artist with dignity and virtue. She does not cause any confusion for those who like to hunt sensational news...".

Dream lover makes Trinh Cong Son fall in love

In 1958, Trinh Cong Son went to Saigon to study and gradually got used to the atmosphere of the discotheque, the tea room, and the nighttime musical assistant.

During a visit to Duc Quynh tea room, the librarian in the Hue citadel suddenly had his first vibrations with the image of Thanh Thuy's pink shadow.

It seems that every night, Trinh Cong Son also comes here, under the pretext of listening to music to see the dream beauty from the stage until "quietly walking into the dark alley". He recounted:

"When I was a boarding school in Saigon, that year I was 17 years old, every night I would go to the music tea room to listen to Thanh Thuy sing. Gradually, Thanh Thuy's image was ingrained in me when I did not know. love Thanh Thuy is not quite because of the guilt of being poor and anonymous.

Meanwhile, Thanh Thuy was a famous singer at that time, who was busy picking up people. I know that, but I can't go a night without her image and singing. One night I only had enough money to buy a glass of lemonade.

At night, I stay awake with longings and dreams that I have to do something to show Thanh Thuy that I admire her very much" (Source: VTC).

So since entering Saigon's art world, Trinh Cong Son has fallen in love with "smoke singing" Thanh Thuy.

Journalist Nguyen Cong Khe, a close brother of musician Trinh Cong Son also recounted: "When he was alive, every time he drank alcohol, Mr. Son often told about the circumstances of the birth of the song Thuong one person dedicated to Thanh Thuy. .

One night, Mr. Son sat in an empty corner on Cao Thang Street, waiting for the person of his dream to come back from singing, just to be seen.

The thin figure, the fragile ao dai disappearing into a small alley, the sound of clogs rushing to the room to take care of his sick elderly mother, made Mr. Son emotional. The song Loving a person was born from that. Anh Son is very infatuated with Thanh Thuy" (Source: Vnexpress).

A few years later, singer Thanh Thuy's mother passed away. The pain of losing her mother has greatly affected her career and performance style.

Since then, Thanh Thuy has poured all her grief into the songs she performed on stage such as: Sunset train, Love life, Duyen trien singing, Sad street... This makes her voice even more melancholy. , filled with emotions, reaching the bottom of the listener's heart and making them vibrate. It was from this time that she was called "The late night melancholy song". And that song has caused nostalgia and torment for musician Trinh.

Trinh Cong Son at this time was timid and had a feeling of poverty, so his love was only quiet, stealthy, waiting, unilateral, and secretly longing, even though he met many times but did not dare to say it.

One day, Trinh Cong Son risked writing a small piece of paper asking Thanh Thuy to sing Dang The Phong's song Falling Raindrops.

Trinh Cong Son did not expect that his request was answered by Thanh Thuy.

The image of a baby bird in the song reminds Thanh Thuy of her mother and she feels lonely, in pain, and writhing. That's why she performed the song in a stream of intense emotions that brought tears to her eyes.

Also from that tear, Thanh Thuy moved Trinh Cong Son's sobbing heart, which made him write the masterpiece song "Ut mi". This is also one of his earliest immortal songs.

About the moment of composing Wet Mi, Trinh Cong Son said: "Those tears were like a little rain on my fragile soul, causing me to retreat even further to a world far more distant than before. makes me cry.

There must have been a certain desperation that made me endlessly entangled with the tears of life as a private possession. Eve ate the forbidden fruit and life was born.

I'm afraid I've also swallowed my tears to know how to talk about those tears wholeheartedly.

Those tears have become an obsession, the urge to ignite the smoldering creative fire in me. And, I wrote it down like I couldn't help it..." (Source: Laodong.vn).

After completing Mot mi, Trinh Cong Son copied it neatly on a piece of paper and always carried it with him so that the opportunity would be given to Thanh Thuy.

But it took him five times seven times to take it away and then bring it back, before he dared to take the risk to sit in the front row to have the opportunity to send a song to his first love.

That night, after sending it to Thanh Thuy, Trinh Cong Son lost sleep because of nervousness and worry, not knowing what the fate of Wet mi would be.

Three weeks later, in the midst of extreme despair and disappointment, Trinh Cong Son suddenly heard "Ut mi" singing from Thanh Thuy's voice and burst with happiness.

Thanh Thuy finished singing, deliberately lingered on the stage to wait for the person who gave the music. At this time, Trinh Cong Son gathered up the courage to step up and say thank you to Thanh Thuy for singing his song.

However, the relationship between the two does not stop there. On her side, Thanh Thuy has never admitted her love affair with Trinh Cong Son. She only saw him as a respected and admired musician. When the movie Em and Trinh was born with the scene where Thanh Thuy wore a cheongsam and went home with Trinh Cong Son in a dark alley, she denied it.

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