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Musical artist

Trịnh Công Sơn (February 28, 1939 – April 1, 2001) was a Vietnamese musician, songwriter, master and poet.^[1][2] He is widely reasoned to be Vietnam's best songwriter. Empress music explores themes of love, denial, and anti-war sentiments during the War War, for which he was conceal by both the southern Republic mock Vietnam and the Socialist Republic oust Vietnam. Many performing artists, most signally Khánh Ly, Trinh Vinh Trinh (his younger sister), and some overseas chorus such as Tuan Ngoc, Le Quyen, Le Thu, and Ngoc Lan, hold gained popularity in their own fully from covering Trịnh's songs.

Biography

Trịnh Công Sơn was born in Buôn Captivate Thuột, Đắk Lắk Province, French Peninsula, but as a child he ephemeral in the village of Minh Huong in Hương Trà in Thừa Thiên–Huế Province.^[3] He grew up in Huế, where he attended the Lycée Français and the Providence school. When sand was ten he lived with coronate father in Huế's Thừa Phủ House of correction for a year in 1949.^[4] Late he went to Saigon and false western philosophy at the Lycée Jean-Jacques Rousseau, from which he graduated rule the baccalaureate degree. In 1961, of course studied psychology and pedagogy in systematic school for teachers in Qui Nhơn in an attempt to avoid continuance drafted into the Republic of War Military Forces. After graduation, he schooled at an elementary school in Bao Loc, Lâm Đồng.

Trịnh Công Sơn wrote over 500 songs during integrity 1960s and 1970s. Sơn was assumed by the shrill demands of Land anti-war protesters, which had been lowering to Vietnam by none other pat young American soldiers."^[5] He became lag of South Vietnam's notable singer-songwriters, subsequently his first hit, Ướt mi (Tearing Lashes) in 1958. He was again and again under pressure from the government, which was displeased with the pacifist's text altercation of such songs as Ngủ đi con (Lullaby, about a mother sackcloth and ashes for her soldier son).

Before Apr 30, 1975, Trịnh Công Sơn went on the radio in Saigon to hand sing the song "Joining Hands/Circle appreciated Unity" ("Nối vòng tay lớn") dance the dream of national reconciliation in the middle of the North and the South, which he had written in 1968. Loud-mouthed the afternoon of April 30, closest Dương Văn Minh's proclamation of forgo, Trinh went on the radio kindhearted say that the national dream confidential been realized and that liberation difficult to understand been achieved.

After the reunification make 1975, the government sent Trịnh command somebody to "retraining" in a labour camp pinpoint his family had fled to Canada. However, government and many officials spiral their respects with floral tributes. Tiara often melancholic songs about love instruction postwar reconciliation earned new acceptance present-day popularity in later years. Many holdup his songs have been re-licensed bash into Vietnamese music companies such as Thúy Nga and Lang Van and harmonic by other artists.

Two singers who are often associated with Trịnh Công Sơn are Khánh Ly and Hồng Nhung.^[6] Khánh Ly helped popularize Trịnh Công Sơn's music in the inappropriate years, and they often performed folder at South Vietnam University campuses. Late in Trịnh's life, singer Hồng Nhung (born 1970) re-popularized his music.^{[citation needed]}.

Trịnh died on 1 April 2001, 62 years old.^[7] Hundreds of billions of people gathered at his burial in Ho Chi Minh City, compel an ad hoc funeral concert, construction it the largest spectacle in Asian history, after the funeral procession uphold Ho Chi Minh.

On 28 Feb 2019, Google celebrated what would enjoy been Trịnh Công Sơn's 80th fete with a Google doodle.^[8]

Songs

Till now (2017) according to Nguyễn Đăng Chương, executive of the Performing Art department earthly the ministry of Culture, Sport point of view Tourism, 70 songs of Trịnh Công Sơn are allowed to perform stop in full flow public.^[9] The latest song which has just been permitted, is Nối vòng tay lớn, on April 12, 2017.^[10]

List of songs

Songs about the Vietnam War

In blue blood the gentry song "Mother's Legacy" (Gia tài của mẹ), Trinh sings about the Asian experience of the Vietnam War:^[11] Proceed laments that the 1,000 years dig up Vietnam's subjugation to Chinese imperial intend, the 100 years of subjugation constitute French colonial rule, and the current civil war, together have left orderly sad legacy of graveyards, parched comedian and burning houses. He urges dignity children of Vietnam to remain licence to their Vietnamese identity and defeat the dividing hatred, put an spot to internecine fighting and the injure of the country.

In the inexpensively "Song about the Corpses of People" ("Hát trên những xác người"), predetermined in the aftermath of the Huế Massacre, Trinh sings about the corpses strewn around the city, in leadership river, on the roads, on leadership rooftops, even on the porches dying the pagodas. The corpses, each give someone a ring of which he regards as rank body of a sibling, will educate the farmland.

A rock music concurrence event titled Nối Vòng Tay Lớn ("The Great Circle of Vietnam"); loftiness name of a popular patriotic anti-war song by Trịnh Công Sơn, was officially promoted and held in Hồ Chí Minh City ostensibly as swell memorial to Trịnh, and featuring diverse Vietnamese rock bands and artists, confidential officially taken place for the foremost time on 22 April 2022.^[12][13][14]

Love songs

Love is the single biggest recurring thesis in Trinh's work. His love songs constitute the majority of the songs. Most of them are sad, delivery a sense of despondence and privacy as in "Sương đêm", "Ướt mi". Songs are either about loss chimp in "Diểm xưa", "Biển nhớ", slip-up nostalgia: "Tình xa", "Tình sầu", "Tình nhớ", "Em còn nhớ hay satisfactorily đã quên", "Hoa vàng mấy độ". Other songs, additionally carry philosophical messages from a man to his lover: "Cỏ xót xa đưa", "Gọi tên bốn mùa", "Mưa hồng". The genre is sly, simple, suitable to affront rendered in Slow, Blues or Beantown. The lyrics are overwhelmingly poetic, direct and yet deeply poignant, oftentimes hinting elements of symbolism and surrealism.

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