H-Kray: Mother left when he was 3, only met again 20 years later, making Meritorious Artist Thoai My break the rules

H-Kray's real name is Pham Dinh Huy, born in 2000 in a working-class family in District 8, Ho Chi Minh City. H-Kray loved music since he was a child and took his first steps on this path at the age of 14 or 15.

Behind the music products, few people know that the male singer has an unfortunate life and those low notes are a huge catalyst for H-Kray's compositions and emotional voice.

He said: "I finished secondary school and then dropped out because of my family's difficult circumstances. After that, I went to learn hairdressing and worked at a barber shop. In my free time, I helped my neighbors sell orange cakes and fried rice cakes, and helped my grandmother sell vermicelli soup...

My house is near the Children's House of District 8. That day I saw everyone doing the stage for the Mang Non program, so I wished that one day I could stand on stage.

I signed up for a drama class. I was taught acting, singing and performing. After studying for a year, the teacher got married and had to quit. I applied to join the Young Pioneers group of the Children's House, which specializes in singing competitions between children's houses and cultural houses in the city. I also founded a music group for the Children's House of District 8.

Later, when I wasn't at the children's house, I went to work during the day and sang at acoustic cafes at night. I idolized Son Tung M-TP and always learned from him even though the music genre I pursued was completely different from his."

Previously, he said he was not supported when he went into singing: "In the past, my father did not support me. My grandmother was also afraid that I would be so addicted to singing that I would not focus on studying, so she locked her bike. I carried a backpack and walked to sing. Later, when my father saw that I could do it, he trusted me, and my grandmother said: You are grown up, the path is yours to choose, the career is yours to choose. If you fail, you still have the hairdressing profession. I just hope you try hard and be good."

In addition to music, H-Ray's family story also attracted a lot of attention. He said: "My mother left when I was 3 days old and it wasn't until I was 20 that I got to see her. That time, the old house was being renovated. When I was packing to move, I discovered an album with a photo of my mother holding me when I was a baby. After my mother left, she came back to visit me.

When I was little, every time I asked my grandmother about my mother, she would say, you are still young, focus on studying, focus on working, and talk about it later. I understood that my grandmother wanted me to focus on my own life and also wanted me to be mentally comfortable.

When I was 20, I once had a dream that my mother had passed away. I told my grandmother. Then she wrote down my maternal home address for me. I went to look for her but couldn't find her right away, instead I met my youngest uncle and aunt. My maternal family told me that my mother had a new family in Binh Duong. I was very happy and tried to contact my mother via Facebook and Zalo.

In 2022, my mother was diagnosed with cancer. I occasionally saw her, either going to Binh Duong or she went to Ho Chi Minh City for medical examination. When I went to my maternal grandparents' house, I went to visit her.

Because my mother also has her own family, if I see her too much it might affect her happiness. I don't want her life to be disrupted because of me. My current husband loves and takes care of my mother very much, so I'm happy and at ease.

I never blamed my mother. If I did, I wouldn't have gone looking for her. It wasn't that she hated me or didn't love me or abandoned me, but her circumstances at that time forced her to do so. At that time, she didn't have the means to raise me. Moreover, her relationship with my father wasn't supported by her family.

I just need to know that I have a father and a mother. It's been 24 years now, and my grandmother is both my grandmother and my mother."

Making Meritorious Artist Thoai My break the rules

With a love for music since childhood, when his grandmother let him listen to cải lương plays and watch music programs in the city, from there his music gradually accumulated and his passion for music began to ignite. H-KRAY took his first steps into the music industry with the determination to find his own path on the thorny path of art.

Although still quite young, H-KRAY has already created some famous compositions, notably Tam long son and Khuat loi. These are two extremely popular melodies on TikTok that most users have heard or used, but not many people know the real owner behind these two melodies.

This Gen Z singer has a warm voice, which is different from other artists of the same generation. H-KRAY's music products always contain traditional music. This is a way for young people to maintain and continue traditional values.

As in the new song "Phen hoa mau son" (Pink pollen) is a collaboration between H-KRAY and Meritorious Artist Thoai My, a project with the first meaning of bringing two generations closer together to listen to the same song. The song is more emotional and noble with the appearance of Meritorious Artist Thoai My, making H-KRAY himself think of the late Meritorious Artist Vu Linh.

This is a composition by H-KRAY, directly inspired by the love story between the male singer's grandfather and grandmother in the past, possessing polished lyrics and a catchy chorus. The reformed opera segment by Meritorious Artist Thoai My makes the song even more sublime. The voices of H-KRAY and Meritorious Artist Thoai My blend together in the arrangement, pushing the audience's emotions with each verse.

As a name that is still relatively unfamiliar to the general public, people cannot help but wonder why Meritorious Artist Thoai My agreed to collaborate with a very young name like H-KRAY.

The veteran artist of the Cai Luong village said: "What makes me happy and satisfied is that even though H-KRAY is very young, she loves and is passionate about her profession. She wrote music and expressed her desire to collaborate with Cai Luong. I don't often collaborate with other artists, but just by looking at the music that H-KRAY wrote, I really liked it, and when it was combined with Cai Luong, I liked it even more. H-KRAY and I want to bring the best to put into the MV "Phan Hoa Mau Son".

Meritorious Artist Thoại Mỹ also said that she had heard some of H-KRAY's famous songs on TikTok and highly appreciated them: "I have heard some of H-KRAY's songs before, I saw the depth in the lyrics and melodies of those songs. I hope you will be successful and steadfast on the road ahead."

H-KRAY emotionally said: "This is something that makes me very happy and proud to be able to invite a veteran, talented and experienced artist like Thoai My to participate in my project. I really want to rekindle traditional values in music, combined with the contemporary breath of young people". H-KRAY not only has good composing ability, a distinctive voice and a handsome face, but also seriously pursuing an artistic path, he promises to be a Gen Z artist who will "make history" in the near future.

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