Hoang Hanh: Miss Earth runner-up sings "The train passes through the mountain" and is called a musical disaster

Hoang Thi Hanh was born in 1992 in Thai Hoa, Nghe An, is a Vietnamese model and runner-up. She was the first runner-up of Miss Asia Beauty 2017 and is the representative of Vietnam at Miss Earth 2019.

Hoang Thi Hanh is also a professional Taekwondo athlete. She has been studying Taekwondo since grade 8 and has participated in many major tournaments. Hoang Thi Hanh has won 10 medals in her martial arts career.

In 2019, when representing Vietnam in the Miss Earth pageant, the beauty from Nghe An caused a stir in public opinion when her talent performance was considered the most disastrous in beauty contests. Accordingly, Hoang Hanh surprised the audience when she performed the song "Tau anh qua nui" by musician Phan Lac Hoa. This song is associated with the voice of People's Artist Thanh Hoa.

"Train over the mountain" is a difficult song, so with her flat voice and constant loss of breath, the audience realized that this song was beyond the ability of the beauty born in 1992 to handle. Hoang Hanh completely lost control right from the beginning of the song. The deviation in pitch made the performance humorous as she was constantly out of tune.

The falsetto intervals that required fullness and resonance this morning became distorted and timid as if someone was choking them. Hoang Hanh's performance was considered a disaster and attracted attention in this talent competition.

Previously, many viewers advised the beauty to perform martial arts - her forte - instead of singing. However, she said she would not perform Taekwondo because it is not a traditional martial art of Vietnam. Through the competition, she wanted to introduce the country's image to international friends. When Hoang Hanh sang, the stage screen showed a scene of a train traveling from North to South, passing many famous landmarks of the country.

In response to the controversy, her representative shared with the media at the time that the beauty had only practiced this song 15 days before the competition. "It's true that this song was too much for Hanh because most of the singers who performed this song were divas, veteran artists, while Hanh was an amateur, just learning vocal music.

When they knew Hanh chose this song, many people gave advice and were afraid it would be too much, but Hanh still practiced and sang at a good level at home, so Hanh decided to choose that song" - representative Hoang Hanh said.

This person shared that Hoang Hanh chose Train through the mountains because he wanted to promote the image of Vietnam to international friends because the LED screen would show images of trains and soldiers.

Hoang Hanh herself, after performing this song at Miss Earth, was also dissatisfied and thought that the song might be a bit too high for her voice. In addition, her mental state during the competition and poor health also affected this performance.

"It's not like when I sing at home with my vocal teacher or sing with friends. It's more comfortable, more spontaneous, and the sound quality is better. Many factors combined to make Hanh's performance not good" - representative Hoang Hanh said.

After this performance was shared, Hoang Hanh read the comments and learned from her experience but did not want to respond because she was focusing on the final night and did not want negative comments to affect the competition.

Also in 2019, Hoang Hanh attracted attention when she and King Luong Gia Huy participated in the reality show Amazing Race. In this program, the model continuously caused controversy when she encountered a wardrobe malfunction and was reminded. Accordingly, runner-up Hoang Hanh in the fish marinating challenge, the beauty wore a wide-necked shirt that revealed sensitive spots when bending over.

Sharing about this, runner-up Hoang Hanh said she herself had no idea she would encounter such a wardrobe malfunction.

"If you say I intentionally created attention, it would be unfair because no one likes such scandals. The Amazing Race is also hot, no one intentionally did it. The show is a grappling race with many heavy challenges, so there will be times when I accidentally encounter problems. I just came back from studying in the Philippines, when I was asked about this, I was startled and had to go online to look up information to review," said Hoang Hanh.

Talking about wearing sexy clothes when participating in the challenges, the beauty said: "If you watch all 4 episodes of The Amazing Race, you will know that I like to wear loose clothes that are easy to move in and avoid the sun. In episode 4, I chose a tank top inside and used a jacket outside. When I was busy working and doing strong activities, I didn't pay attention, so the incident happened. I hope everyone will sympathize and not blame me. Next time, wherever I go and whatever I do, I will be more careful.

Artists live off the love of the audience. I made the audience unhappy because of my incident, so I sincerely apologize to everyone and hope the audience will always support the White team. The Amazing Race also helped me grow up, learn to listen and change myself," Hoang Hanh shared more.

Also in this episode, Hoang Hanh received a lot of criticism because people said she cheated. Sharing about this, the beauty denied it and said that each team was closely monitored by the Organizing Committee.

"As soon as I arrived, I looked carefully at the path I would take to get to the pot-breaking area, so I estimated the number of steps I would take and completed the job smoothly. The blindfold was quite large and thick, and was tied and checked many times by the organizers themselves to ensure fairness, so there was no way I could see the path.

Looking up is normal. When I need to think, I usually look up to concentrate. That's just my inertia," the beauty said.