Tram Tu Thieng: "who writes History with music", lives a quiet life with a tragic love

Tram Tu Thieng is known as one of the most famous musicians of the golden music genre before 1975. The compositions of the late musician are often associated with the times of the country and from the quiet life of the late musician. grandfather.

Many of his songs have become immortal such as: Winter Love Song, Suffering Suffering, Endless Song of Songs, Night in Memory of Saigon, Take Me Into Summer, Mother's Word, Steal Looking At Each Other...

In particular, the song Kinh Khuc is considered a special song, associated with the reputation of Tram Tu Thieng. Specifically, this song was written mainly by the musician with 4 musical notes: Re, Fa, Sol, La (excluding the Do note that appears once at the end of the song). Because of that, the rhythm of the song is even - like a prayer, a prayer for the homeland destroyed by fire.

As a talented musician, with a fairly large number of composing about 200 songs, the late musician Tram Tu Thieng is a rather modest person, secretive about his private life and likes to live quietly.

Poet Du T. Tu Le once commented on this talented musician: "In the second generation of 20 years of Southern music activities, from 1954 to 1975, if there is a quietest person in all living The most active and humble of all appearances, then perhaps it's musician Tram Tu Thieng."

Tram Tu Thieng's real name is Nguyen Van Loi, he was born on October 1, 1937 (on the birth certificate in 1940) in Quang Nam. With a passion for music from a young age, when he was 10 years old, he started singing in the countryside (about the period from 1945 to 1949).

After a while, Tram Tu Thieng moved to Saigon to live and attend high school here. In 1958, he graduated from the Pedagogical School and became a teacher.

In 1966, Tram Tu Thieng joined the Psychological Warfare Department of the General Staff of the Army of the Republic of Vietnam. During this time, he composed a number of songs written about soldiers such as: The Military Field Resounds, The Night of Migration, Rain on the poncho.

On Tet holiday in 1968, he wrote the song "The story of a broken bridge" when the Truong Tien bridge collapsed on the Perfume River, this song attracted a lot of attention from the audience. In 1970, after the event of a storm that devastated the South, he composed the song "Ton Nu is still sad".

Also during this time, Tram Tu Thieng joined the Vietnamese Vocal Movement, founded by musician Nguyen Duc Quang and Ban Tram Ca in South Vietnam. It is known that this is a group of cultural and artistic activities serving the community. With the motto "Using the common voice of the community to adorn the national arts and culture with a hopeful green color, bringing each person closer together to take care of building a bright homeland".

From 1970 onwards, Tram Tu Thieng worked for the program "Radio School" with other artists such as: Le Thuong, Vinh Bao, Hung Lan, Dac Dang, Xuan Hap, Tong Ngoc Hap,. ..

During this period, he composed mainly children's songs on historical, cultural and social topics to educate primary school students nationwide. This work lasted until 1975, then stopped completely.

After the incident in April 1975, Tram Tu Thieng crossed the border many times but failed, he was "re-education" for a while.

Until 1985, he was guaranteed by singer Thanh Thuy to go overseas. He settled in "Little Saigon", California, USA. In overseas, Tram Tu Thieng worked as an advisor to the executive board of the Vietnam Overseas Journalists Association for 2 terms from 1996 to 2000..

Tram Tu Thieng also continues to pursue his music career when collaborating with Cloud Center and Asia Center. Here, he and musician Truc Ho composed many songs for the chorus genre such as: Vietnamese footsteps, Vietnam nostalgia, One day in Vietnam, Thank you...

In particular, in 1987, he composed the song "Night remembering Saigon"; This song seems to talk about his life and his heart-breaking love. Poet Du T. Le once shared: "When he recalled a love affair, it was a bit tragic, and I think that because of that love, he had almost no family his whole life. for the tragic and faithful love of musician Tram Tu Thieng, which was 'Night Remembering Saigon'.

On January 25, 2000, Tram Tu Thieng took his last breath at Anaheim West Medical Center. His passing has left inconsolable regrets for his family, colleagues and many fans.

During his lifetime, musician Tram Tu Thieng once said that he mainly wrote about love and identity, stemming from his private emotional life because he had experienced so many ups and downs.

The late musician Anh Bang also shared: "Tram Tu Thieng has a special ability, which is the keen ability of a musician to write valuable songs for the campaign. Tram Tu Thieng. He is not only a historical writer with music, but also a witness to each period of the country's multi-faceted and mixed history."

The only woman associated with his life is Mrs. Do Thai Tan. She is known as a daughter of a rich family. They have been in love since they were young, but their mutual love has repeatedly prevented them from being together.

In 1970, when musician Tram Tu Thieng was 33 years old, they officially lived together, but at this time Mrs. Tan had 2 children with her previous husband. Musician Tram Tu Thieng still accepts to love his wife's stepchildren like his own children.

Happiness was only a few years, an incident occurred - the two broke up because of the times. Mrs. Qin evacuated, musician Tram stayed behind, quietly seeing off his wife and two children. In 1985, they finally met again after 10 years of separation. At that time, musician Tram Tu Thieng was guaranteed by singer Thanh Thuy to come to the United States.

Even so, Mr. Tram Tu Thieng was still lonely because Mrs. Tan was at peace with the new person. At that time, the musician composed the Winter Love Song as a farewell to a desperate love. From then on, he was never left hand in hand with any shadow again...