Don Ho: Storming the overseas music village, many forces 'watch', facing the risk of losing life

It can be said that Don Ho is one of the most famous male singers of the overseas music industry since the 1980s. For a long time, he continuously stormed all the big and small music stages from the US to the US. Europe and Australia.

Journalist Truong Ky once commented that wherever Vietnamese people lived, Don Ho was present there. However, that is only true for overseas music stages, because when he left Vietnam 40 years ago (1980), Don Ho had never returned.

Don Ho impresses the audience with a very special and different voice, with a confident and brave appearance, and almost always brilliant costumes. Don Ho's success in his career over the past 30 years is not accidental, but it is thanks to his efforts, learning and creativity in each performance.

He also often duets with many female singers, most famously with Ngoc Lan and Lam Thuy Van. Singer Don Ho, whose real name is Ho Manh Dung, was born in 1962 in Saigon in a family of North Vietnamese origin in 1954 (father from Thanh Hoa, mother from Nam Dinh). Don Ho is the 4th child in the family, with 2 brothers, 1 sister and 1 younger brother.

When he was a child, Don Ho used to go to classical guitar lessons following the trend of his friends, but after only a few sessions, he got bored, then switched to violin but did not get there. Finally, he switched to painting and felt that he had a talent for painting, since then he has been attached to this field until he came to the US.

After 1975, Don Ho's family fell into an extremely difficult situation. After much preparation, the whole Don Ho family left Vietnam together. But unfortunately all the trips failed, each time how much accumulated money was swept away. In the end, they decided to separate.

At the end of 1980, Don Ho and his step-brother named Lan departed from Ca Mau, on a small boat bound for Thailand. After a few days of sailing, the ship with the two brothers was "questioned" by the pirates more than 30 times, once Don Ho was carried up and thrown into the deep, black sea, had to swim back to the boat by himself. was torn apart. Fortunately, two years ago, he was taught to swim by his father, so he was able to survive in the middle of the sea.

To this day, he is still active in the arts. It can be seen that he is one of the most successful overseas singers in the art world. He said that many singers of his time no longer sing, but Don Ho is still active and has many shows to sing.

On the occasion of the New Year, the male singer sang 5 shows in 5 days continuously, every weekend he was expensive. With a passion for art, I also work hard. Don Ho said: "I'm still single, unmarried, so I have a lot of free time, don't bother, worry about too many things, so I can comfortably run the show."

Currently, he is still single and has not been in a relationship. Every time the male artist is about to open his heart, he is always the last to come.

The male singer confided, "If I get married and have children, it will be difficult for me to run the show continuously because I will be distracted. For example, when I'm on a show, I will have to worry about how my children are at home. , then after singing, you have to call me right away...

I have never been in love before. I am always the one who comes behind, stands behind happiness, looks at people's happiness and laughs, smiles but eyes are indifferent.

When he was a toddler, he didn't know what stage name to use, so he used Don Ho for convenience. When taking this name, the male singer did not know that there was also another singer who also had this stage name and was very successful. It can be said that this is an unannounced coincidence in the male singer's artistic career.

During the last 2 years of his studies at College, he began to make many artistic contributions to the school's arts with a group of 4 close friends, including Mai Khanh and writer Nhat Tien.

Thanks to those active activities, Don Ho was elected president of the Vietnamese Student Association at Orange Coast College in 1985, also the last year he studied here.

When he sang, he still had to do many different jobs to make ends meet because singing at that time was not enough for his daily needs.

Initially, Don Ho sang with the band The Keys at Saigon Cabaret. Everything was pretty stable, but the tea room invited the dreamers band, so the group smaf Don ho sang together lost their job.

Next, when Duy Quang and My Ha opened the Dong Phuong Nightclub, they invited Don Ho and The Keys to sing. At this time, the group appeared next to famous singers at that time such as Duy Quang, Thai Hien, Thai Thao, Minh Xuan Minh Phuc, Trong Nghia...

However, after 2 years, the Dong Phuong Nightclub closed, Don Ho had the opportunity to move to the Ritz tea room of musician Ngoc Chanh. This is a huge opportunity for male artists because Ritz gathers many famous stars of the overseas village.

An important turning point in Don Ho's singing career was then he joined the band Bolero by musician Duy Hanh. Realizing that he was still quite incompetent, he took additional vocal classes.

Thanks to hard practice, and experience when singing in the band Bolero, the male singer has the opportunity to go further in his career. In the early 1990s, Bolero band was invited by Thuy Nga center to appear on the program Paris By Night 12 with the theme revolving around young music medleys.

In the band's performance, Don Ho performed 2 songs "Em Beautiful As Dream" and "Black Magic Woman". After the first appearance on that video, Don Ho attracted attention and was noticed by Thuy Nga center and officially invited to cooperate from Paris By Night 15 in 1992.

He made a name for himself with the piece "Diana", which he performed with extremely solid singing technique. The male singer performed very boldly on stage because he had been in the band for a long time.

In the first video shows in his singing career, Don Ho only specialized in performing foreign songs. However, after that, he gradually switched to Vietnamese music, and succeeded with the first songs such as The Hundred Years of Love, Em Hien Nhu Masoeur, Tinh Khuc Buon ...

About a year ago, Don Ho was miserable when he was constantly harassed through social networks and emails. The incident began when the Vietnamese-born male singer thanked a fan for sending a clip of his old home while living in Ho Chi Minh City. From the original letter, this person switched to flirting, then criticizing and slandering other fans of the male singer, then... asking for money from Don Ho. Received in return is the silence of the idol, this person constantly writes letters with content harassing Don Ho.

Not stopping there, when Don Ho reacted, this person also threatened to personally go to America to harm him. After asking this side to stop all acts of harassment but failed, the singer of Winter's Heart contacted the local government to report it.

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