Meritorious Artist Phuong Loan: 13 years old "hiding" from home to go to the theater, 3 times lost her voice and worried about Cai Luong

Behind the bright lights of the stage, after the splendidly dressed roles, an artist like Phuong Loan also has her own feelings.

He was once banned by his family because he thought he was 'singing without species'

Meritorious Artist Phuong Loan's real name is Dang Thi Phuong Loan. She said that she was not originally from the family, especially her family did not like reform. From an early age, the female artist was very passionate about her profession and often sang clams. "Grandma at home doesn't like it, but she knows I'm so greedy, so she sometimes spends money to buy a piece of paper with songs like Cakes, Ms. confetti, etc. I remember Grandma went to buy it for me, but she kept going. said: "No, don't do that job, sing without a species." The family just didn't give it away, but didn't beat it. I knew that I would save money to buy tickets to the theater, but at that time, I loved Ms. Thanh Nga very much. , every time Ms. Thanh Nga comes back, I go to see it. When I heard that she died, I was in school, but I loved her so much that I cried bitterly," the female artist recalled.

Artist Phuong Loan shared that when she was 13 years old, she opened a singing studio near her house, she immediately applied to study but her family did not allow her. At that time, the director of the cooperative saw that the female artist was talented, so he paid her own money to go to school.

The female artist recalls: "After studying for a few months, the group outside the Central region invited me, asked my mother to give it to me for 10 days, who would have thought that it was too crowded to sing out there for 3 months. At that time, I just sent a telegram, you girls. I just came to reassure my mother, who was also impatient and didn't know what was going on.. Promised her to finish her studies properly and then go to sing, but actually in 8th grade, she studied for half a year, she was very angry. I also told her in my head. There are no words, but it's all tuong, my mother let me sing. My mother was so angry that she said no, she said she couldn't see my face anymore, but I also went to sing hard, sometimes I went away for 4 or 5 months.

Claiming to have a hobby of "jumping the group", Phuong Loan is one of the seasoned warriors when "roaming" through many provincial delegations. Any large or small group will go, even the underground singing group has tried it. Even though she was busy, she still had to sing dong, "singing belly singing while playing bingo, she still had to work hard because she missed it, then hid for fear of losing her job," she said.

Having fought throughout the provinces, Phuong Loan was also the brightest main actress, and as a matter of course, also directed towards the brilliant city stage. For a time, thanks to an acquaintance's introduction, Phuong Loan returned to the city to join Huynh Long's ancient reformed tuong troupe. Since the main peach is quite famous in the provinces, she started from scratch with the role of... maidservant.

After a few months, because of "rice, rice, money" and felt that she could not develop her career, Phuong Loan packed up again and returned to the province. "The Saigon stage at that time had almost no room for young people to squeeze in. The girls were so beautiful, I couldn't compete...", she said. At the stage of the reformed video boom, when artists of the same age took the opportunity to pop up, Phuong Loan could not join the trend.

Once filming the play Confiding to the woman she once starred on stage, the frank comment of a senior about the close-up frame, showing all the defects in facial skin, blew away all of Phuong Loan's courage. . Only later, when image editing technology developed, did she regain her confidence to participate in filming.

Lack of confidence in appearance - not meeting the "beautiful" standards required in a main actress, nor too special a voice to make a prominent mark - Phuong Loan thought: "If you just accept to hold a role then there will be no more work to do. If an artist has no role, how will the audience remember? Being forgotten by the audience is the scariest thing!". So Phuong Loan doesn't mind playing big and small roles, even the roles that "rescue her" with just a few lines that not all artists accept, she "nods". Thanks to "easygoing", versatile, quick to learn tuong, and especially not to compare status, Phuong Loan gradually became a "familiar face" for television reform programs.

At this time, the image of "mother" Phuong Loan also gradually emerged. "I actively choose my direction. If I'm not pretty, I'll just play a supporting role. Play a lot for the audience to remember," said Meritorious Artist Phuong Loan. Thanks to that, when having the role of mothers, from poor to luxurious, and especially "revolutionary mothers", the directors almost remember Phuong Loan.

Losing his voice three times, facing the risk of losing the ability to sing

In the process of pursuing a singing career, Meritorious Artist Phuong Loan revealed the story of losing her voice three times because of the habit of drinking ice water and singing too much. The female artist confided: "During one time I went to sing, I suddenly couldn't talk, there was no sound anymore. I had to go to the ENT hospital, the doctor said I had polyps in my vocal cords. polyp removal is quite dangerous, it can be distorted, so the doctor decided not to cut it, but gave me treatment. For 6 months, I could not speak, only write on paper. I had it in 1998, at that time I thought the My career doesn't love me anymore, let me go back to my garden. At that time, I broke down, cried all the time, and tried to go to the hospital for treatment. I had to practice every word like a child says. I had to practice inhaling, breathing. out, practice saying each syllable, each word. Fortunately, I tried and a few months later I could sing again."

Then in 2007, artist Phuong Loan continued to lose her voice. At that time, the female artist was participating in the play Kim Van Kieu with 500 artists, with nearly a month left of opening, she muted her voice. "I felt lost, thinking maybe the Patriarch wouldn't let me sing anymore. The night I went to the altar to pray but tears kept falling, I beg for the grace to overcome the tribulation, I will fast for 3 months. Fortunately, the day of the show is near. I have my voice back and I've been a vegetarian since 2007 until now.

In 2009, she was silenced again and was warned by a doctor that if she didn't operate, it would be cancer. Urgent to the point of examination the next day after surgery. About 3 months of care is slightly better than not yet surgery", the female artist recalled.

When asked what is the most passionate about the subject of reform, Meritorious Artist Phuong Loan said that when she was able to live with the character. For nearly 40 years in the profession, she incarnated in many different roles with a full fate, but she likes to play women who are doomed, because "do as it suits me".

With a strong passion for cai luong, when seeing this art gradually disappear, artist Phuong Loan couldn't help but feel moved and worried. Therefore, when given the opportunity, the female artist always seeks to teach the younger generation with the desire to preserve the reformation. "I think I have to be responsible, what I've learned and known over the past decades not to leave it in vain. I love my job very much, I love it so much that I'm afraid that young people won't sing. Also, tomorrow my job as a reformer will be lost.I have to beg my juniors, when I was training at the Golden Bell program, when I saw that you were discouraged, I had to go and beg you. I'm proud that for over 40 years, I've done nothing but this singing career," she said.

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