Dong Lan - The singer lives a closed life and has a loyal love for music

Dong Lan was born in 1985, she was born and raised in Hai Duong, currently the singer is in France and studying abroad to major in jazz in Paris, France. She said she feels "easy" with life here when she is not a public figure.

Dong Lan was widely known to the public when she won the first prize in the Northern French singing contest in 2008. In September 2010, Dong Lan went to the South for an impromptu and uncertain trip. Saigon is a place that sounds far away and vague in Dong Lan's mind, but it can help the little girl who loves to sing French in Hanoi to find and temporarily forget the old place that anything reminds me of. about her late father.

Dong Lan still remembers that Saigon was interesting, from the way she asked for directions to the behavior of a motorbike taxi driver... Suddenly she wanted to stay and thought she could adapt to this life. Through her friend, singer Mai Khoi, Dong Lan timidly introduced herself to the audience in a few tea rooms.

What surprised her most was that the city had more than 100 years of interference with this French culture, the French songs of the 1960s and 1970s that she brought were immediately accepted as an old acquaintance.

The applause and friendly words of encouragement from the Saigonese moved her. Compared to the strict music environment and slow to accept new people of the old place, it seems that this southern city wants to officially guide her into the artistic path on the first day.

Dong Lan said she never dared to think of herself as a singer, even while performing with teacher Le Hung Phong's band. Lan started her life as a teacher at Sunrise Kidz School, Hang Than. Playing with children, singing all day with them is the joy of a young teacher, who comes from a family with a tradition of loving French culture.

In 2006, the music scene suddenly opened with Dong Lan when she wore a blue dress and held a guitar to sing in a fundraising program for flood victims in the Central region.

"O leaves that fly to the sky, remember to send words to me ...", Lan's song was as light as the wind and Lan's leaves flew through the auditorium was retained by a long round of applause. From that day, teacher Le Hung Phong invited Lan to join the Lang Du band to perform around Hanoi.

Despite being a singer, Dong Lan is a closed-minded girl with almost no colleagues. When it was time to perform, she ran to the stage, talking, laughing and singing. After singing, he ran home, wrote a diary and talked to his little dog. Even after winning the first prize in the French singing contest in the whole North, and being invited to tour France in 2008, that open life only made her diary thicker.

Music artists in Hanoi began to know about Dong Lan, but many people told each other that this girl did not seem normal. "People say you're such a fanatic," Dong Lan said that she heard people say that and laughed.

Many years ago, entering the singer's life was twirling around with many things, from how to get on TV at prime time, how to get on the cover of a newspaper on some occasion... That race in the singer world was so intense. fiercely, but with Dong Lan, those things did not attract her into the vortex.

Music is like a place for her to shelter in with a secret joy, like a small garden that a child suddenly discovers and plays alone through the four seasons.

Dong Lan said she brought a lot of good memories of her singing days in Hanoi. The days of performing and singing were still not satisfied, Dong Lan and Mr. Phong, musician Viet Anh in Lang Du band pulled together to a small shop next to Quoc Tu Giam and played the piano together until late at night. He even sang until he was yelled at.

The trip to the South was an opportunity for Dong Lan to realize a difference and decide to stay. Because her personality does not want to repeat, does not want monotony to take over her. Even in familiar French songs, Dong Lan wants to do something different.

Musician Bao Chan, who made the album Maison de Dong Lan (Dong Lan's house) - the second album since the singer entered the South, said: "It is a voice that is always eager to find the mystery. of melody".

Perhaps such an environment has stimulated Dong Lan's creative ability. She writes more and releases her thoughts more innocently. Afraid to die, Lan's song participated in Vietnamese Songs and unexpectedly received the award in 2012, giving her a newfound excitement.

"So why does a person who doesn't like showbiz like Dong Lan join The Voice 2012?". When receiving this question, Dong Lan laughed. Saigon indeed has its difference that makes people not hesitate to try something, touch a certain challenge.

When watching the American version of The Voice, Dong Lan was very interested in how the judges looked to the singing voice rather than the singer's appearance. She also wanted to find out if her singing really appealed to the general public.

"But that's all, I'm tired of real showbiz" - Dong Lan said. This girl said she wanted to walk on the street. Instinctively nodding to someone. Wear an outfit that you designed yourself without having to be shy even if you are said to be "disgusting".

In the early days of coming to the South, the showbiz nightmare used to make Dong Lan lose sleep and eat. During a visit to a restaurant with his younger brother in the countryside, Dong Lan was accidentally seen by a tabloid photographer. After that, Dong Lan received a series of blackmail messages saying that if she did not accept, the pictures of "Dong Lan with her boyfriend" would be sent to her hometown.

"At that time, I was just worried that my mother at home wouldn't understand" - Dong Lan laughed when recounting this story. Coming to Saigon to live a singing life, Dong Lan had to hide from her mother that she had to work far away because singing was still not considered a good thing for her family. "Now that I think about it, it's funny why I was so scared," Dong Lan said.

The funny story of the young girl is not only that. In the early years, many viewers texted Dong Lan to change her hairstyle, dress, etc. Friends who helped manage the work for Dong Lan also wanted to change her in some way. than the public taste.

"Please just let me be me. Keep one thing free and private, that's my dream - Dong Lan said - And I feel beautiful. Do you feel beautiful?".

It's hard to answer. Just like every morning when she wakes up, Dong Lan sings and asks a question to the little cat lying down looking at her. The cat is silent.

Any artist with personality dreams for a lifetime to keep their own in this world that is too monotonous. And with Dong Lan, the artist's heart every morning when he wakes up with his small dream also needs a small share, enough to lift that dream more beautiful and fly higher.

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