Meritorious Artist Manh Tuong: Who is the legendary announcer of VTV who just passed away?

Recently, the news that distinguished artist and famous editor of Vietnam Television (VTV) Hoang Manh Tuong passed away at the age of 77 made many people sad. During his lifetime, Hoang Manh Tuong was one of four legendary editors of VTV.

According to information from Ms. Nguyet Anh - niece of Meritorious Artist Manh Tuong, he passed away on November 9, at the age of 77.

Ms. Nguyet Anh added that Meritorious Artist Manh Tuong passed away due to a third stroke and many other diseases.

Life and career

Meritorious Artist Manh Tuong was born in 1946, in a family of 11 siblings. He loved singing, then followed the troupe to serve the soldiers on all fronts.

However, a stomach hemorrhage prevented him from being healthy enough to serve the soldiers. At that time, Manh Tuong was returned to his local area.

Thanks to his beautiful voice and singing talent, Manh Tuong joined Vietnam Television to work in 1973. At that time, the broadcasting profession was still quite new.

Meritorious Artist Manh Tuong said that in his time, the working environment was not very favorable, but everyone was secretly determined to strive, compete with each other to be able to read each small news well, and strive to the extreme to be able to pay attention in the station.

For each newsletter, he has to invest and think about how to read it so that it can convey a neat and concise but convincing message to the listener. After being on the station for 2 years, Meritorious Artist Manh Tuong is considered a "key" announcer.

Later, he also became the Head of Broadcasting Department, and was the leader of many later junior classes such as Phuong Hoa, Nhat Le, Ngoc Tram, Minh Khue...

When work was going smoothly, a stomach ache caused Meritorious Artist Manh Tuong to lose weight quickly, disrupting work. After 2 years of not appearing on the air, he was assigned to read the captions for feature films.

At first, he could not avoid disappointments, but later, he was loved by the audience through the life-changing movies that he narrated.

The films that were closely associated with his name at that time include "17 Moments of Spring", "The Great Patriotic War"...

Sharing the same strict view on the profession as Meritorious Artist Kim Tien, Meritorious Artist Manh Tuong believes that being a broadcaster is not a simple profession.

According to him, this is an art that requires the practitioner to converge many factors to perfect their role, from images, facial gestures to reading voice, intonation...

In his career, the thing that Meritorious Artist Manh Tuong is most proud of is probably that he has passed on his fire and profession to many future generations of broadcasters.

There have been about 200 broadcasters of local stations trained by the Broadcasting Department of Vietnam Television where he works.

In 2015, he participated in the Happy Lunch program to celebrate the 45th anniversary of the first broadcast of Vietnam Television.

Meritorious Artist Manh Tuong married director Kim Thuy and called it a match made in heaven. The turbulent personal lives of some female colleagues made him have his own thoughts about family happiness. No matter how lively his wife is, he is more calm to compensate.

Manh Tuong and his wife have two daughters. In his old age, he enjoyed a peaceful, peaceful life with his wife and children.

After artist Manh Tuong passed away, information about the three remaining broadcasters of Vietnam Television who were awarded the title of Meritorious Artist, Kim Tien, Minh Tri and Thanh Hung, suddenly received the attention of the public. general public.

Meritorious Artist Kim Tien "failed" the exam twice.

Meritorious Artist Kim Tien was born in 1948 in a family of five siblings on Hang Bong Street (Hanoi). She studied dancing since she was 13 years old. In 1970, Kim Tien took the exam to become a broadcaster for the Voice of Vietnam, and in 1971, he took the exam for Vietnam Television but failed both times.

In 1973, she worked at the dance team of Vietnam Television and then was transferred to become a broadcaster. She is the voice of the classic sayings: The subscriber you dialed is currently unavailable, please call back later, This is the Voice of Vietnam... and is the voice of the movie's dubbing. The legendary Journey to the West in 1986.

In a television program, Meritorious Artist Kim Tien shared: "Our profession at that time was like a reclamation. We had not yet seen someone who had gone before us on screen to study. At that time, there was no satellite to watch local television. other countries. I just think that if you want to be loved by viewers, you have to be an audience. If you like something, do it for the audience," Meritorious Artist Kim Tien shared.

To have the confidence to stand in front of the camera, Meritorious Artist Kim Tien repeatedly stood in front of the mirror rehearsing everything from his face to his voice. In 2001, Meritorious Artist Kim Tien stopped being the host of the Live News program. In 2002, she retired but still opened classes to teach radio and editing to younger generations.

Meritorious Artist Thanh Hung is always neat

Meritorious Artist Thanh Hung has worked at VTV since 1979. He is also part of the station's golden generation of MCs in the early days of broadcasting. Meritorious Artist Thanh Hung is remembered for his bright, clear, slow, steady reading voice along with his neat image when on air.

Meritorious Artist Thanh Hung had time as a lecturer at the Armored Officer School. After that, he also fell in love with the seventh art when he played the role of a pilot named Quynh in the plastic film The Sky. The legendary voice of VTV once shared a memory that made him remember forever: an audience copied a short poem by poet Phan Cung Duc.

Meritorious Artist Minh Tri used to work as a construction assistant

Meritorious Artist Minh Tri's full name is Nguyen Minh Tri, born in 1945. Before coming to the broadcasting profession, he experienced many other jobs such as a watchman, a teacher, and auditioned for movie actors. In 1971, he took the exam to become a broadcaster for Vietnam Television.

At that time, the broadcasting profession was not yet popular, but the entrance exam was still extremely difficult, having to overcome many strict requirements from sitting posture to reading voice to working spirit...

In the 1980s-1990s, Meritorious Artist Kim Tien and Meritorious Artist Minh Tri were considered a pair of "heavenly born" broadcasters, two of the "legendary voices" on VTV. Two Meritorious Artists have made VTV's News bulletin closer to television audiences.

Meritorious Artist Minh Tri also narrated many television films broadcast on VTV, including the legendary film Journey to the West.

He retired in 2005. Some time later, he had a serious stroke that caused his health to decline. He passed away on March 31, 2022 due to old age and weak health, at the age of 77.