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Quang Dũng

Bùi Đình Diệm, penname Quang Dũng (1921–1988) was a Vietnamese poet. He was one of the poets associated with the Nhân Văn–Giai Phẩm movement. In his style, following Vladimir Mayakovsky, he experimented with longer poems. Quang Dũng is the author of several very famous poems such as Tây Tiến (Advancing Westward), Đôi mắt người Sơn Tây (The eyes of Sơn Tây people), Đôi bờ (The two banks)... Together with the works in literature and poetry, Quang Dũng was also an artist and musician.

Biography

Quang Dũng's real name was Bùi Đình Diệm. He was born in 1921 at village Phượng Trì, Đan Phượng District (now this place belongs to Hanoi). Quang Dũng finished his high school education at Thăng Long School, and after graduation he worked as a teacher in private School at Sơn Tây.

After the August Revolution of 1945, Quang Dũng joined Vietnam People's Army and became the journalist of "Chiến đấu" (Fighting) Newspaper. In 1947, he take a course at Sơn Tây's Vocational Continuation Military School. After graduated, he was appointed the commander position of 212th Battalion in Tây Tiến Regiment (Advance Westward Regiment). Later, Quang Dũng took part in the offensive campagains of the Tây Tiến regiment at northwestern Vietnam and at the border regions of Laos. During this time he was also the Deputy Chairman of Laos-Vietnam Propaganda Team. After finishing the Tây Tiến offensives, in the late of 1948 Quang Dũng became the Head of Propaganda and Instruction Department in Tây Tiến Regiment, and then the Head of Letters and Arts Delegation of 3rd Interregion. In August 1951, Quang Dũng returned from military service. After the Resistance war end in 1954, he was appointed to be the Editor of Văn Nghệ newspaper, then worked at Literature Publisher.

Phạm Duy

Phạm Duy (October 5, 1921 – January 27, 2013) was Vietnam's most prolific songwriter. With a musical career that spanned more than seven decades through some of the most turbulent periods of Vietnamese history and with more than one thousand songs to his credit, he is widely considered one of the three most salient and influential figures of modern Vietnamese music, along with Văn Cao and Trịnh Công Sơn. His music is noted for combining elements of traditional music with new methods, creating melodies that are both modern and traditional. A politically polarizing figure, his entire body of work was banned in North Vietnam during the Vietnam War and subsequently in unified Vietnam for more than 30 years until the government began to ease restrictions on some of his work upon his repatriation in 2005.

Life

Phạm Duy was born Phạm Duy Cẩn, on October 5, 1921, in Hanoi. His father Phạm Duy Tốn was a progressive journalist and writer, and one of the earliest writers of European-style short stories. Phạm Duy Tốn was also one of the founders of the Tonkin Free School movement. Phạm Duy's father died when he was two, and he was raised largely by his older brother Phạm Duy Khiêm, whom he described as a strict and tyrannical figure. Phạm Duy Khiêm later became a professor and South Vietnam's ambassador to France, as well as a Francophone writer.

Khánh Ly

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Khánh Ly (born as Nguyễn Lệ Mai (Mai Nguyen) on 6 March 1945) is a Vietnamese singer. She performed many songs written by Vietnamese composer Trịnh Công Sơn and rose to fame in the 1960s.

Life and career

Early life

Khánh Ly was born to a traditional family and grew up in Hanoi. As a child, she would fall asleep to her father's soothing voice. His serenades planted inside her a love for music, which grew stronger every day against her family's wishes. In 1954, at the age of 9, she entered a small contest in the city of Hanoi singing Thơ Ngây; she did not win.

By 1956, she accompanied her mother to the southern regions of Vietnam. At the end of that very same year, she secretly entered a children's talent-search contest produced by Pháp-Á production at Norodom Stage in Saigon. Mai traveled to the contest by sneaking into the back of transport trucks and hitching a ride from Đà Lạt City to Saigon. She won second prize singing Pham Duy's famous song, Ngày Trở Về. Mai lost to child-star Quốc Thắng who would also later become an iconic figure in the music world. She was only 11.