>>> RE: When I listen to Le Thu or Thai Thanh, it reminds me of Hanoi. WHen I listen to HNH and DT, it reminds me of the Jazz club in Chicago or the French quarter in New Orleans. Is that time of music popular in Vietnam?

You comment is very interesting. I think similar 2!

I have been living overseas for most part of my life, and have only discovered the music scene from VN only few years back. My observation is that, without stirring any form of controversy, the music scene in VN is well “advanced” and more adaptive to the outside world – much more so than the VN music industry overseas, which tends to “stick around” the old values of the 70′s. And when they try to “go west”, they tend to pick up the tacky bits! :-((( I’m not saying this is good or bad – just stating a difference that I observe.

My Linh once made a bold statement (which got her in deep water!) which went something like this: “Nhie^`u anh chi. nghe^. si ~ o+? ha?i ngoa.i, ddu+o+.c co+ ho^.i ga^` n gu~i ho+n vo+’i nhu+~ng tinh hoa cu?a xu+’ ngu+o+`i, nhu+ng kho^ng chịu co^’ ga(‘ng ha^’p thu. nhu+~ng cái tinh hoa a^’y”

Guess what? I agree with My Linh!!

NK

Yes he did. But didn’t work out.

After graduation, DT started out with a pop album “Anh Yeu Em” in 2004 targeting the teen market. But wasn’t successful with that, because there is too much of that stuff everywhere in VN.

He then changed appearance and music style. In his next 2 albums “Doi Mat Nguoi Son Tay” (Pham Dinh Chuong music) and “Ngam Ngui” (Trinh Cong Son & Pham Duy music), he found the recipee that worked for him.

He then popped out another pop stuff “Yeu Trong Anh Sang” (Quoc Bao music), which was basically a flop.

So as you can see, he has tried to do different things, but looks like he is destined to stick to the clean image (he was voted as best dressed male singer in VN last year!) and singing “classical” stuff. Can’t expect him to be something like … eg. Dam Vinh Hung or Tung Duong :-)

Agree with u that Ngoc Ha sings pretty good, but does not look hot. Just cute and …. not tall :-)

Ho Ngoc Ha’s vocal skill is not as good as Ngoc Ha. But, yes, she is stunning. Over 1.70mm tall. Used to be one of the top model in VN, before embaking on singing career.

Cheers,
NK

I like Ho Ngoc Ha ‘s live singing. To my surprise alot
of people like this song too.
I sang this song in a couple of shows and people just .
go wild especially at the high notes part I hold it really long like the way Alicia Keys does it “in “fallin”
Thanks HNH for making me remember this song.