Phuong Mai - Vu Linh's stage lover: Teaching cai luong to Americans, full U70 with husband and children

Among the artists settled abroad, artist Phuong Mai is the one who transmits the profession to many young actors to come to the stage of cai luong ancient tuong. Currently, the female artist is living a full life with her husband and children.

Who is Phuong Mai?

Phuong Mai's real name is Truong Thi Bich Phuong, born in 1956. She is a famous actress on the stage of ancient cai luong tuong.

She was born in a family of 13 children, in which her paternal and maternal family all followed the subject of reform. Since childhood, Phuong Mai attended Phan Van Tri School in Cho Quan. When she was young, she was sent by her adoptive mother to the Dong Au Minh To troupe, and played the role of a peach in the plays Nam Xuong Young Woman, At the end of a happy road, The color of flowers and flowers, and so on.

In 1970, she became the lead singer of Hoa Generation and a number of plays on television, paired with Thanh Tong, La Thoai Tan, Duc Loi, Hung Cuong. In addition, she also studied new music with musician Bao Thu.

After 1975, she sang in the Minh To troupe with artist Thanh Tong.

She followed her husband to West Germany to settle down in 1979. Thought from that time on she had "crossed over" with a job to earn a living in a foreign land. But, her passion for the stage did not leave her, it pulled her up and walked closer to the stage. At first, she switched to singing new music, choosing a genre of music with folk music influences to remain somewhat attached to cai luong. Then sometimes she "flys" to areas where there are a lot of Vietnamese settlers and organizes old cai luong tuong shows. That model was once effective, when she and a number of artists staged excerpts upholding the spirit of loyalty, meaning, discipline, and ceremony and were very well received by overseas Vietnamese.

Then, since the domestic reformed video market flourished, people in the world saw that Phuong Mai was the first person to return to the country to ask the Ministry of Culture and Sports to allow the reconstruction of classical classical works of cai luong tuong. Through these products, she has contributed to introduce to foreign audiences the ancient tuong with unique characteristics of Vietnam. During many recent trips back to the country, she made plays: "The Hong Phi case", "The Queen's Injustice", "Twelve Second Wives of the West", "Ao Dai of the Virgin"...

And yet, Phuong Mai also volunteered to participate in charity fundraising performances to support poor studious children.

It can be said that, for the audience who love the stage of the old cai luong tuong, everyone knows that Phuong Mai is also nicknamed Tieu Lang Ba. She said in her autobiographical line: "Once upon a time, when I was 9 years old, when I was 10 years old, I soon showed my passion for the stage. When I was a few years older, my grandmother, the artist Cao Long Nga, sent me to the United States of America. Grandma noticed that I quickly proved my ability to play martial arts roles and especially those pretending to be boys, so she mentored me and created an opportunity for me to succeed.In 1997, when I returned home to attend the program. In the stage of helping people in the southern provinces ravaged by typhoon No. 5, I played the roles of Dao Tam Xuan and Luu Kim Dinh. Until today, the gestures and performance lines that I have learned from my grandmother I still seem to remember it in my mind," she said.

The most haunting role of the artist Phuong Mai

Referring to Phuong Mai's impressive role, it is impossible not to mention the Headless Queen. It is this role that has brought the name of the female artist to a new step, the horror footage of the past until now still makes the audience shudder.

In the era of technology development, there are many movies released, among them there are also many horror films that are so realistic that it makes the audience cry. If commenting on which movie or play we've seen scares us the most, perhaps many viewers will choose the Headless Empress.

The Headless Empress is a painful story of princess Huyen Suong (played by Phuong Mai) after being married to Emperor Khanh Tien (played by Minh Vuong). Because of being harmed in the palace, Huyen Suong received the heaviest sentence. Because of resentment that could not be overcome, every night the Queen appeared with a headless image of begging for milk for her child and walking on the ground, singing. lullaby.

Possessing filmmaking technology, there is still a lack of technique, but the Headless Empress has created a great resonance, this is a film that made a great impression in childhood because of Phuong Mai's mournful songs. The writer himself was quite afraid of these films when he was young, just listening to someone's TV playing the part asking for milk or lulling the child would "run away". However, if anyone has ever enjoyed cai luong melodies, they will probably love this special art.

The current life of female artists

When she moved abroad to settle down, Phuong Mai still had a passion for art, she opened a class to teach cai luong to Americans.

"Young actors in the state of California - USA love this sport very much. Most of them are young American citizens, all born and raised in the US, some of whom speak Vietnamese not fluently but extremely well. When I fell in love with the subject of reform, I felt warm because there were more students.After the play Trung Nu martyred nation about the uprising of two Trung sisters, a large number of overseas audiences came to watch and cheer for the artists. As a young actor, it's exciting for me to continue imparting knowledge to keep my career fire in the US", the female artist shared.

Not long ago, the female artist had the opportunity to meet with Huong Lan, both performing old songs. According to the vlog of artist Bao Loc, Phuong Mai shared: "It's been decades since we had the opportunity to stand on the same stage. I am very grateful to her for arranging the time to come to me, unable to speak. what else."

Regarding married life, she married an unnamed husband, but the two divorced in 1994.

Phuong Mai said she was not very happy, but that was over and now she has a new family home. Son and daughter are both grown up, the older sister wants to follow in the footsteps of her mother as a singer.

Although currently artist Phuong Mai does not have many activities and rarely talks about her personal life. However, the roles of female artists are still forever with fans of cai luong and Vietnamese classical tuong.

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