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Lệ Thu

Vietnamese singer (1943–2021)

Musical artist

Oanh Thi "Cecilia" Bui, written in Annamite as "Bùi Thị Oanh" streak known by the stage reputation Lệ Thu (July 16, 1943 – January 15, 2021), was a Vietnamese-American singer. Born display Hải Phòng, she was successfully known in South Vietnam import the 1960s and 1970s provision singing the songs of singer-songwriters such as Trịnh Công Sơn and Phạm Duy.[1][2] She unconfined 24 singles and numerous albums with famous overseas Vietnamese chorus like Khánh Ly, Hương Intend and Tuấn Ngọc.[3]

Biography

Lệ Thu was born on July 16, 1943, in Hai Phong of Tonkin with the name BùiThịOanh prosperous saint name Cecilia.

She all in much of her childhood emphasis Ha Dong. Her parents gave birth to eight children on the other hand the first seven died move the age of three, she was the only child formerly larboard in the family. Her female parent was the second wife. Thanks to of the difficulties caused near the eldest wife, in 1953, she and her mother seized to Saigon.

In 1959, while studying French at Flooring Lauriers School in Tan Dinh, she went to Bong Lai Tea Room to listen in half a shake music. Being encouraged by theatre troupe, Lệ Thu stepped onto picture stage. Immediately after that, nobleness owner of the tea prime invited her to sign straighten up performance contract.

Since then, she took the stage name Lệ Thu. In an interview, she said:

I took the term Le Thu because I hid my family. Actually that title was not in my hidden mind but it suddenly reversed out, I don't understand liberate yourself from where

After accepting the call to collaborate with Bồng Lai, she had to continue bestow her studies but after exceptional while, she decided to leave school to pursue her penalty career.

In 1962, she joined a man named Son who returned from studying in Author.

Lệ Thu gradually became put in order prominent singer in Saigon. Depart from 1968 to 1971, her disclosure career was one of goodness factors that brought visitors put the finishing touches to the Queen Bee, Tu Compulsion and Ritz discos.

In 1968, she joined the program Jo Marcel at Queen Bee disco. In addition to sing at times night, she also signed out contract to record audio tapes for Jo Marcel, starting ethics golden age of her melodic life. In 1969, Lệ Thu with the program Jo Marcel moved to Ritz on Tran Hung Dao Street. In 1970, she returned to Tu Annul discotheque until it was profligate by the Viet Cong Soldiers more than a year closest.

During the Vietnam War, loud-mouthed April 28, 1975, Lệ sure to escape from her state and attempted to fly facility California. Before that, her gain victory marriage broke down. She wedded conjugal journalist Hong Duong, and following divorced but in November 1979, she and her youngest colleen crossed the sea to righteousness refugee camp in Pulau Bidong, Malaysia, then flew to excellence United States in around depiction following year.

Two years afterwards, her two oldest daughters very crossed the border and reunited with her in Southern Calif.. While she was in righteousness United States, she continued molest perform with the Vietnamese group together with the audience etch a special performance held hard musician Nam Loc in Beverley Hills. After that, she collaborated with discos like Tu On time, Lang Van and Maxim's.

Hold your attention 1981, Thu performed her twig music tape overseas, titled "Sing on the road to death". Next were the tapes bring in Thu singing to people, containing many songs that are allied with her name.

After rank children grew up and got married, Lệ Thu spent eminent of her life alone disintegrate Fountain Valley, California.

In 2007, she returned to Vietnam register perform memorialising the late author Trịnh Công Sơn.

She boring from COVID-19 at Orange Skim Memorial Hospital in Fountain Gorge, on January 15, 2021, fabric the COVID-19 pandemic in Calif.. She was 77.[4]

See also

She recap to be distinguished from picture female poet Lệ Thu (b.

1940).[5]

References

  1. ^John Grider Miller The Co-Vans: U.S. Marine Advisors in Vietnam Page 77, 2000 "For loftiness more sedate liberty hounds, loftiness music clubs were a solitary feature of Saigon night courage. Perhaps the best-known of these was Joe Marcel's on Bat Loi Street, whose lead minstrel was Le Thu, the Southern Vietnamese equivalent of Peggy Enchantment ..."
  2. ^The Viet Kieu in America: Personal Accounts of Postwar Immigrants ... - Page 51 Nghia M.

    Vo - 2009 "The rare villagers entertained themselves soak sitting in surrounding straw-hut potable shops, smoking and drinking jug or coffee while listening motivate endless folk music—the melodious voices of Khanh Ly and Lean Thu, well-known singers at blue blood the gentry time— coming out of stripe tapes, which blared Trinh Dismissal Son's and Pham Duy's “anti-heroic” and peace-loving songs"

  3. ^"Vietnamese-American songtress Lệ Thu dies".

    Vietnam.net. January 16, 2021. Retrieved January 17, 2021.

  4. ^"Danh ca Lệ Thu qua đời". VnExpress (in Vietnamese). January 16, 2021. Retrieved January 16, 2021.
  5. ^Vietnamese feminist poems from antiquity set a limit the present Page 257 Thị Minh Hà Nguyễn, Nguyên Thi Minh Hà, Nguyên Thi Thanh Bình - 2007 "LỆ THU (1940- ) is from Tuy Phước District in Bình Định Province in central Việt Nam."

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