Jack: A scandalous male star, more scandals than hits, has just been successfully "whitewashed"?

After many years of artistic activities, currently, every time people mention Jack, people only remember the scandalous "fortune" that exceeds the number of his hits. However, it is undeniable that the male singer is very talented.

Jack (or Jack- J97), whose real name is Trinh Tran Phuong Tuan (born April 12, 1997), is a Vietnamese singer-songwriter, rapper and actor. He was born and raised in Ngai Dang commune, Mo Cay Nam district, Ben Tre province, is the son of a family whose father works in coconut cultivation and goat breeding, and his mother runs a small milk tea shop, but the two have divorced.

Jack graduated from Ben Tre Culture and Arts Intermediate School (now merged into Ben Tre College). After graduating, the male singer joined and worked in the rap group G5R. Here he debuted a number of songs with the group such as "Western Melody" and "Mother 2".

Jack began to be known in the underground world when he released the music video "On my side", but not too widely in the Vpop market. On February 19, 2019, he released the song "Hong Nhan", which caused a fever across platforms.

Thanks to this song, Jack was compared to Phan Manh Quynh and Den Vau. Since then, he has emerged as a phenomenon. After "Hong Nhan", the male singer left the group G5R and joined ICM at the invitation of music producer K-ICM.

On April 16, 2019, Jack released the song "Silver Fate" in collaboration with K-ICM, continuing the series of stories of "Hong Nhan" which was widely received by the audience. On May 19, he continued to release the song "Sao em unintentionally" by Liam as a music producer. Although, not as commercially successful as his previous works, the song still received positive reviews from the public.

On July 12, 2019, Jack released the song "Waves" with K-ICM, which was promoted as the third part of "Hong Nhan". The song has achieved great commercial success, topping all Vietnamese music charts. The songs "What am I", "My Vietnam" and "Colorless Flowers" were released after that.

At the end of 2019, some sources said that Jack and the ICM management company had a conflict over the division of money, "labor exploitation" was spread on social media. At this time, the male singer posted an article on his personal Facebook account that mentioned that the release of "Colorless Flowers" was just a demo. The song has only been recorded for a trial recording, there is no raft and the lyrics are not complete.

However, K-ICM has arbitrarily released on its YouTube channel. After an interview with the content of affirming "not exploiting Jack", the young producer received many negative reactions from the audience. The singer from Ben Tre finally decided to leave ICM Entertainment and no longer cooperate with K-ICM until now.

After this noise, Jack reportedly collaborated with ViruSs to release a demo of the song "Firefly" on the evening of December 29, 2019. The demo reached the top 1 trending position on YouTube Vietnam in just 4 hours of posting. Next, he signed a contract with Nomad MGMT Vietnam and released the song "Is a boy" in collaboration with music producer Hoaprox on March 10, 2020.

The song received mixed reactions from experts and audiences, some thought that this was just the first step for Jack's experiment with many different genres of music. Previously, on February 17, 2020, he also officially announced his own YouTube channel called J97.

On September 22, 2020, Jack released the single "Begoni", which was mixed by the DTAP production team and the male singer personally participated in the mixing. After 24 hours of release, the song reached the top trending in 7 countries including: Vietnam, Taiwan, Canada, Australia, Germany, India and Mexico and led music sales on iTunes.

It was also "Begonia" that helped Jack win the Most Favorite Dance/Electronic Song category at the 2020 Zing Music Awards and Best Music Video at the 25th Asian Television Awards, becoming the first Vietnamese artist to receive this award.

On December 26, 2020, Jack released the song "Firefly", which quickly rose to No. 1 on Zing MP3 with a time of only 64 minutes, setting a Vpop record for the year. After two days of release, the song received a lot of relative commercial success, reaching the No. 1 position of the top trending YouTube in Vietnam and reaching the top trending YouTube in many other countries.

The MTV EMA voted for Jack in the Best Southeast Asian Artist category. In 2021, he won the Most Favorite Male Artist category at the Zing Music Awards and the 26th Golden Plum Awards.

At the 7th WeChoice Awards in 2020 which took place in January 2021, Jack received the Singer of the Year award. On August 7, a post with many audio clips and images of birth certificates with a hybrid seal on social networks of a girl accused of fishing.o Jack was promiscuous and had a child with Thien An - the heroine in the music video "Waves" released in 2019, but he did not accept children.

On the morning of August 8, Thien An confirmed that this story was true on her personal Facebook page. On the evening of August 10, Jack officially posted an article admitting to having an affair with Thien An. He apologized to the audience and promised to take responsibility for this incident.

It was also the noise that forced Jack to leave Running Man Vietnam season 2 after episode 4 aired. Silent for a while, on July 13, 2022, the male singer announced a poster for a new product titled "Lonely Star", marking his return after nearly a year of inactivity.

On July 15, the teaser of the music video "Lonely Star" was released, attracting the attention of the audience, reaching more than 18 thousand comments after being posted on YouTube. On July 19, the MV was officially released. On October 5, it was reported that Jack left Nomad MGMT Vietnam after 3 years of working together and founded his own company called J97 Entertainment. On January 12, 2023, he confirmed this information.

In 2024, Jack was accused by producer ViruSs of using the beat without permission from the demo produced by the two of them a few years ago for the song "Thien Ly". In April of the same year, he was involved in market fraud when he was allegedly involved in advertising betting websites.

At the end of 2024, Jack marked his comeback with the music product "Under the Dry Canopy of Blooming Flowers". Although the work created a resonance, it was suspected of plagiarism by Quang Hung MasterD. In the midst of the male singer rushing to organize a concert, the turbulence hit, stemming from the incident on the evening of January 17, 2025, hot girl V. denied all accusations of his love affair 4 years ago.

After that, Thien An spoke up and said that she and Jack had two children together before baby Sol, but both were forced by the male singer's family for fear that his career would be affected. This scandal directly engulfed the singer from Ben Tre, causing him to stay in hiding for more than 3 months and only returned a few days ago.

Reappearing after the shocking noise, Jack seemed to be a different person, growing long hair and changing his taste. Many netizens even sarcastically said that he would rather grow his hair than raise his children, or change systems to save his career. Despite being opposed by the majority of the public, the male singer was still enthusiastically welcomed by his fans. So the "whitewashing" has been successful?

Jack "revived" thanks to the ViruSs scandal, expensive photo frames causing a fever on social networks, about to make a comeback? Snow07:07:50 25/03/2025When ViruSs's love affair exploded, Jack - 97 was also mentioned on all fronts. Not only that, netizens also dug up the precious frame of this pair of brothers together.