Huynh Phuc Dien: A talented but unlucky director who always makes My Tam burst into tears whenever he mentions it

Huynh Phuc Dien was born in 1970, whose father is a screenwriter Huynh Van Ni. He is a talented director who always makes My Tam feel moved to tears when recalling. His death in 2009, for My Tam is a great loss and pain.

His early childhood was unhappy because his mother passed away when Huynh Phuc Dien was not aware of pain, separation, and loss.

Ever since he was a boy, Huynh Phuc Dien has been a sensitive and emotional person. While other children were busy playing and naughty, Huynh Phuc Dien often sat contemplating and contemplating the things he saw and felt in this life. His childhood was associated with the heavy alluvial Mekong River. In the afternoon, Huynh Phuc Dien's most enjoyable hobby is bringing the guitar to sit on the riverbank, leaning back against a deserted coconut tree and humming songs, singing songs praising the beauty of life, and letting the The fresh wind from the Cuu Long Giang stream cools my soul. Living in the midst of gentle nature is one of the factors that make up Huynh Phuc Dien's personality and people: romantic and gentle, sincere and pure.

The year Huynh Phuc Dien was in 8th grade, his life turned to another page, on the day that a delegation of officials from the Ho Chi Minh City College of Culture appeared at his school to select art preschools. to send to the training school. In the final test, when all the selected contestants were asked to show their talents, Huynh Phuc Dien sang the song "One life, one forest" by musician Tran Long An.

After that impressive performance, Huynh Phuc Dien was accepted into the regular program of the College of Culture and started wrapping the melon fruit in Ho Chi Minh City to enroll, starting a life away from his family and loved ones. , far from hometown, village, far from Cuu Long river associated with childhood memories.

As a boy from a small town to the city to study, during those years, Huynh Phuc Dien's life encountered many difficulties. He had to take care of himself, learn to be independent, pursue hard studies in an extremely harsh artistic environment, and earn a living to partially support his father's burden. That day, outside of school hours and drama rehearsals, he didn't mind any work, from selling bread to fixing cars, working as a hired hand.

At that time, in the school's poor students, Huynh Phuc Dien was also close friends with Phuoc Sang, Nhat Cuong, Hoang Son, and Le Tuan Anh. Although they are poor, they consider each other as brothers and sisters in the family, anyone who is in difficulty or sick is encouraged, helped and shared by everyone. The friends who played with Huynh Phuc Dien at that time are now successful and famous people. They are still attached to each other like the years when they were young. Only thing, Huynh Phuc Dien left too soon, leaving many regrets for those who stayed.

The respectable eldest brother in the entertainment industry

In the early days of entering the artistic path, Huynh Phuc Dien planned to become a screenwriter. But fate may have destined him to become a talented director, so right from those years, the path that Huynh Phuc Dien initially chose could not bring him professional glory. Huynh Phuc Dien started writing scripts in the late 1980s, when he turned 18. In 1991, when he submitted his work to the National Festival of Professional Authors with the play "Love Realm", Huynh Phuc Dien won the gold medal when he was just 21 years old.

That success was expected to create a momentum for him to conquer the career peak of the path he had chosen. But then, his works such as "Only music", "Here a river stops", even though they were made into plays and movies, still did not bring him the same satisfaction and happiness as him. thought.

Those were the years of extreme confusion in Huynh Phuc Dien's life, because he felt that the movie scripts, the human destinies he created, the long nights of staying awake to create painful art had been lost. eroded him, causing him to gradually lose his passion for creativity. Those difficulties and confusion made him sick for a long time, fell into extreme poverty, and then became the driving force for him to turn to another direction, which is to become a talented director. and the most prestigious in the Vietnamese entertainment industry.

In the early days of his career as a director, Huynh Phuc Dien also faced many difficulties. For a long time, his main job was to set up amateur and popular cultural programs in schools, pagodas, and on holidays of the year. Gradually, thanks to tinkering, learning, accumulating experience and natural talent, Huynh Phuc Dien began to become a well-known name in the director's circle. He began to be invited to perform children's music programs, then shows of young singers and began to do larger shows.

Huynh Phuc Dien also set a record for the director with the most number of times in the program "Vietnam's Grace".

In addition, his name has been associated with the big live shows of Quang Dung, My Tam, Mr. Dam. He has twice won the director award in the program "VTV Song I love" thanks to his stylish ideas and personal imprint.

Not only being loved by a talented director, Huynh Phuc Dien also really conquered the hearts of people in the world by his simple, sincere lifestyle and pure soul. Huynh Phuc Dien never jostled with anyone, never played bad games with his colleagues, and he always helped everyone without a single thought, if it wasn't beyond his ability. As a workaholic, even when he knew he was close to death, Huynh Phuc Dien still tried his best to complete his unfinished work, with all the enthusiasm and energy he had. can be obtained during the days of struggling with monstrous liver cancer.

My Tam's special person

For My Tam, director Huynh Phuc Dien is not only a partner in work but also a brother and close friend. That's why when it comes to this late director, she can't hold back her emotions.

"There's only one thing I haven't told anyone. That day he died, I was in the US. At that time, I dreamed of him. He said: 'You go, Tam'. Then, I woke up startled. and saw a message announcing Mr. Dien's death", the female singer choked.

The relationship between My Tam and director Huynh Phuc Dien can be considered a soulmate in the Vietnamese entertainment industry. Referring to the success of the female singer, it is impossible to ignore the great merit of the talented director. Huynh Phuc Dien is the man behind My Tam's one-time series of feverish MVs such as Nhe Anh, Dream of Love, Cyclo... Thanks to that, the image of the voice of "Brown-haired cartoon" appeared densely through the waves. national television and became one of the most popular singers at that time. Therefore, the fact that the director contracted a serious illness and died in 2009 was a great loss and an inconsolable grief for My Tam.

When Huynh Phuc Dien passed away, My Tam did not believe that his dear brother was gone forever. Shocked and saddened by not being able to return to Vietnam in time to see him off to his final resting place, while performing at a concert in the US, she fainted right on stage when she had just finished a performance.

In 2014, during the Heartbeat live show at Quan Khu 7 Stadium, My Tam also spent a moment remembering director Huynh Phuc Dien.

She burst into tears as soon as the music sounded and the image of director Huynh Phuc Dien appeared on the screen.

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