Thanh Tuyen - Queen Bolero: 8 months to become a star and a perfect 30-year marriage at the age of U80

After 55 years of singing, the female singer still retains her own charm.

Referring to the title of Queen Bolero, no one can be more deserving than Thanh Tuyen, when her name, performance style and voice have become illustrious, marking forever with this music.

It took 8 months to become a "star"

In the years 1965-1966, Thanh Tuyen was known as "The Queen of Golden Music", the name of singer Thanh Tuyen was associated with songs of the golden music genre such as: Footprints of memory, Sorrow of phoenix flowers, Da Lat sunset, love the cold land,...

Especially after combining with singer Che Linh, the two formed a classic and famous duet of the golden music genre. The two voices of that day blended together to bring the golden songs to the very end of the listener's emotions. There was also an anecdote that said: "At that time, musicians who wanted to be famous had to wait in line to give songs to Thanh Tuyen because every song she sang was famous everywhere".

Thanh Tuyen was born on October 29, 1947 in Da Lat, real name is Pham Nhu Mai. She was born in a poor family, has 15 siblings, Thanh Tuyen is the second sister, so the family burden soon fell on the little girl's shoulders.

In 1959, Thanh Tuyen first fell in love with the music path when she won the Da Lat Prodigy Award with the song "Sunshine in the South", a composition by musician Lam Phuong.

In the early 1960s, Thanh Tuyen went to school while singing at the radio station, at this time she was taught basic music theory by her uncle. During a recording at the radio station with the song "Vong guarding the misty night" by musician Manh Phat, he felt the clarity and soaring in her voice.

During a summer vacation, when she was a student at Bui Thi Xuan School, the school held awards at the end of the school year and invited Nguyen Van Dong - Director of Continental and Son Ca record labels, to the ceremony. At the musical part, the host introduced "schoolgirl Nhu Mai sings to honor guests from Saigon", at this time a beautiful, healthy voice filled with youthful energy, resounding resounding. The whole school yard drew strong attention to Nguyen Van Dong.

At that time, Nguyen Van Dong set up a training program and gave Nhu Mai a new name, Thanh Tuyen, implying that she was the green stream of the Da Lat Plateau. After only 8 months of being in Saigon, Thanh Tuyen already has CDs and tapes introduced to music lovers. Like a strange bird from the land of fog, a forest flower still wet with dew, Thanh Tuyen quickly won the love of music lovers here, she stood shoulder to shoulder with her seniors and seniors on Radio, On the stage of Dai Nhac Hoi, she was praised by the Saigon press at that time - That year, she had just turned 17 years old.

The characteristic "cheesy" voice creates the brand name Thien Queen Bolero

Possessing a voice with an innate timbre suitable for bolero music like a shoemaker, with Thanh Tuyen, the more "cheese" she sings, the more the audience becomes fascinated. Because her "cheesy" is not fake, forced, rigid like many singers later, but is always full of emotions as well as sensibility and sentimentality.

Like Thai Thanh, Thanh Tuyen's singing is in the form of a picky listener, picky about the audience because it is too "smell", too "feeling", anyone who hears it will feel a little uncomfortable because of its great compassion. But if you get used to hearing it, the listener will be addicted to that song, to that sweet substance, so that you can't stop it. These two songs are like a durian fruit, the smell is very strong, flies very far and is very strong, people who are not familiar with it do not like it, but once they are used to it, it is expensive to buy it to enjoy.

Thanh Tuyen possesses a pure lyrical soprano voice (full lirico soprano) soaring high with a round timbre in the mid-range and extremely brilliant in the high-range. Really, if Thanh Tuyen is trained according to Western classical vocal standards, she will be champion among female vocalists in Vietnam.

Her voice is inherently rare, resonating in nature, and each time it is sung, it is like a common rose, not only resounding far but also leaving a long-lasting echo in the listener's ears.

In terms of timbre, if you think about colors, you can compare Thanh Tuyen's singing with the brilliant canary color of bright sunlight. It is thanks to the wonderful timbre in a rare, bright voice that Thanh Tuyen stands out more than Huong Lan (also a rich voice) when recording the CD.

Thanh Tuyen said that as a professional and loving singer, she did not want to lip-sync on stage. Tuyen doesn't want to sing lipsync, because when I sing lipsync, I won't have the feeling of dying with everyone, living with the music in my blood. Although singing live can be tiring, singing is not as good as lipsync, but by all means , Tuyen always said that if she sang lipsync, Thanh Tuyen would not sing", the female singer confided.

A perfect 30-year marriage

Currently, although she is 74 years old, singer Thanh Tuyen is still passionate about her singing career, she once shared: "I am an artist, my passion for singing is already in my blood and in my heart". The person behind her supporting and supporting all her activities is none other than her husband who has been with her for more than 30 years. The man just wanted to stand behind Thanh Tuyen, follow her through the press and social networks: "I'm an artist, it's okay to appear. I'm with you, the audience doesn't know who it is."

Currently, Thanh Tuyen is living with her husband in the US, going to perform at weekends, and everyday with her husband cooking rice and gardening, enjoying the peaceful moments of late afternoon. She shared happily: "We are all old, we don't know what tomorrow will bring, so we can be happy for any minute or minute. Sometimes, those who miss their children and grandchildren call them back to gather around the tray of rice."

She wants nothing more than to have good health to devote to the arts. Thanh Tuyen only uses about 40% of the money earned for daily living, the rest will be used to help difficult situations.

Famous singer Thanh Tuyen: U80 has expensive shows, huge salary, lives with her 90-year-old husband in a villa in the US Bảo Nam16:08:26 09/12/2023With a career spanning nearly 60 years, she has become a musical monument in the hearts of fans and many generations of junior singers. Currently, famous singer Thanh Tuyen is 75 years old. She has a family life that many people admire.