Thai Thanh: The female singer made Mr. Dam respect, Tran Thanh "watched for eternity"

In the Vietnamese music industry, it is difficult for any singer to have as many names as Thai Thanh. Music listeners in the 60s and 70s called her "The First Singer". Music listener Pham Duy called her with the image of "The sound of crying and laughter following the fate of floating water".

The illustrious career made Le Thu bow her head, foreign scholars admired

Thai Thanh's real name is Pham Thi Bang Thanh, born on August 5, 1934 in Hanoi. She is the youngest daughter in a family rich in literary and artistic traditions, with three uncles, poet The Lu, writer Truc Khe, musician Pham Ngoc Can, and brothers and sisters who are musicians and singers. famous as Pham Dinh Chuong, Pham Van Chung, Thai Hang, Hoai Chung.

Therefore, from a young age, Thai Thanh was educated in literature and music in a disciplined manner. Accordingly, since the age of 14, Thai Thanh has been singing in the resistance area and is known for his family's Thang Long choir. She is famous for her early Vietnamese new songs and new folk songs by musician Pham Duy.

Thai Thanh's singing was soon broadcast throughout the resistance wars, rural and urban areas, allowing the public to freely listen to Vietnamese songs, instead of listening to French music.

It can be said that Thai Thanh is one of the leading flags to help discover and develop Vietnamese new music.

At the age of 16, Thai Thanh followed his family to Saigon to live. Here, she was taught by the late legendary musician Pham Duy wholeheartedly about both singing skills and musical appreciation.

In Saigon, Thai Thanh continued to sing at tea rooms, dance halls, concerts and emerged as the brightest star in the music scene that day. Thanks to that, Thai Thanh is constantly invited by record companies to record and perform around the country and abroad.

Thai Thanh's name shone most brightly in the 50s and 60s. At a time when singers like Khanh Ly, Thanh Tuyen, and Le Thu were just beginning to sing, Thai Thanh was famous in all four directions, making everyone people to respect. Singer Khanh Ly recounted:

"When I first started singing, I listened to a lot and also learned mainly from previous singers like Mr. Ngoc Bao and Mrs. Thai Thanh. That day, I went around the streets and saw people turning on Thai Thanh to listen.

Don't say anything about the audience, even we love Thai Thanh. Our kids at that time were very young, naughty like no one. Ms. Thai Thanh loves us very much, so she only scolds love.

In my tea room, Ms. Thai Thanh's hour is peak time. She was very punctual and when she came, she sang, and then she left. She rarely sat down to talk. We are just waiting for this to be able to listen to the songs we like.

So without yielding to the audience, we all shouted: "Auntie Hold it, then it hurts and then it dies!". That is, Sorrowful, Half-soul pain, Autumn died. Every night we danced like that, and the audience cheered.

After she finished singing, she quietly went down to look at our faces: "You guys are too much! Do you sing for us ...". After she finished speaking, she smiled happily, holding a small purse and walking away.

Singer Le Thu that day was proud and famous, owning a high level of sand, but still "bowed to Thai Thanh". In 1970, in a Japanese event, singer Le Thu answered the press: "If Ms. Thai Thanh were here and singing, everyone would bow their heads in admiration".

It seems that no singer has a musical range as long and wide as Thai Thanh, when he can sing all kinds of music from pre-war music, resistance music, folk music, semi-classical music to love songs, music. social music, religious music... She sang every genre of music with great success and made her own profound impression.

Most especially, Thai Thanh used his singing voice to develop and popularize the nation's pentatonic music, combining it with Western music, creating a unique new musical color.

It can be said that Thai Thanh alone is enough to embrace the country's music sky during the most volatile and ups-and-down period of history. In other words, Thai Thanh singing is a book about Vietnamese history and culture and penetrates the soul of the nation.

Therefore, she was dubbed by the domestic public as "Singing, crying and laughing according to the fate of floating water". As Pham Duy said:

"Thai Thanh's voice, a beautiful voice: all the happiness and sufferings of human life are tormented in war and peace, in glory and humiliation, in hope and despair through crying songs. , laugh, float, follow the water's destiny".

Canadian scholar Georges Etienne Gauthier once said about the magnificence of Thai Thanh singing as follows:

"In the past twenty-five years in Vietnam, many voices have had time to rise and disappear from the music scene, but Thai Thanh's voice has always been there, always loved and cherished in the music industry. number of Vietnamese.

How to explain the continued success of the artist over such a long period of time? How to explain the privileged position she has won in the hearts of the audience?

In fact, Thai Thanh's voice brings us back to the most beautiful and sustainable in each of us, it brings us back to our childhood, back to the pristine and beautiful point that is still intact in each of us. .

Thai Thanh's voice brings us back to compassion, it brings us back to human nature."

Possessing an illustrious career, top reputation and profound influence on many generations of singers, making people respect and admire, Thai Thanh is clearly the greatest proof to define a famous singer. .

Dam Vinh Hung respects, Tran Thanh forever follows

During the 1950s and 1960s, the new music scene was dominated by male vocalists (known as "actors"). With her great success, Thai Thanh has turned the tide, regaining "power" for women in music.

Fame alone, Thai Thanh's career is enough to overwhelm previous male vocalists to create a monumental monument. Although she is a female voice, but Thai Thanh is chosen by many talented musicians such as Pham Duy, Pham Dinh Chuong, Anh Bang... to send her thoughts.

It was one of the biggest pioneers of Thai Thanh, paving the way for female singers. That's why Thai Thanh received the respect of a series of great female singers such as Khanh Ly, Le Thu, Quynh Giao...

Only Thai Thanh has enough stature to make the most arrogant and famous singer also bow in admiration and accept to stand behind. As Le Thu said:

"We are not timeless voices, if we say timeless, only for singer Thai Thanh!".

Thai Thanh's influence was so great that, as soon as she passed away, many famous artists in showbiz mourned. Dam Vinh Hung bitterly:

"So God hid the most beautiful and noble flower in the art garden that he had arranged specifically for humanity in general and Vietnam in particular. To talk about that famous singer, perhaps it is possible. It takes a long time to speak, and it is enough for many people to speak."

As for Tran Thanh, he exclaimed: "Descendants of life, eternally follow his aura".

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