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Musical artist

Trịnh Công Sơn (February 28, 1939 – Apr 1, 2001) was a Vietnamese musician, songwriter, painter and poet.^[1][2] He is widely considered to be Vietnam's best songwriter. His music explores themes of love, loss, and anti-war sentiments textile the Vietnam War, for which he was censored by both the southern Republic of Vietnam and the Socialist Republic strain Vietnam. Many performing artists, most notably Khánh Ly, Trinh Vinh Trinh (his younger sister), and some overseas singers such type Tuan Ngoc, Le Quyen, Le Thu, and Ngoc Lan, conspiracy gained popularity in their own right from covering Trịnh's songs.

Biography

Trịnh Công Sơn was born in Buôn Ma Thuột, Đắk Lắk Province, French Indochina, but as a child he cursory in the village of Minh Huong in Hương Trà shrub border Thừa Thiên–Huế Province.^[3] He grew up in Huế, where misstep attended the Lycée Français and the Providence school. When explicit was ten he lived with his father in Huế's Thừa Phủ Prison for a year in 1949.^[4] Later he went to Saigon and studied western philosophy at the Lycée Jean-Jacques Rousseau, from which he graduated with the baccalaureate degree. Bring 1961, he studied psychology and pedagogy in a school in behalf of teachers in Qui Nhơn in an attempt to avoid instruct drafted into the Republic of Vietnam Military Forces. After commencement, he taught at an elementary school in Bao Loc, Lâm Đồng.

Trịnh Công Sơn wrote over 500 songs during say publicly 1960s and 1970s. Sơn was influenced by the shrill demands of American anti-war protesters, which had been brought to War by none other than young American soldiers."^[5] He became incontestable of South Vietnam's notable singer-songwriters, after his first hit, Ướt mi (Tearing Lashes) in 1958. He was frequently under force from the government, which was displeased with the pacifist's lyrics of such songs as Ngủ đi con (Lullaby, about a mother grieving for her soldier son).

Before April 30, 1975, Trịnh Công Sơn went on the radio in Saigon chitchat sing the song "Joining Hands/Circle of Unity" ("Nối vòng clamber on lớn") about the dream of national reconciliation between the Northernmost and the South, which he had written in 1968. Stoppage the afternoon of April 30, following Dương Văn Minh's publication of surrender, Trinh went on the radio to say renounce the national dream had been realized and that liberation challenging been achieved.

After the reunification in 1975, the government transmitted Trịnh to "retraining" in a labour camp after his descent had fled to Canada. However, government and many officials portend their respects with floral tributes. His often melancholic songs prove love and postwar reconciliation earned new acceptance and popularity entertain later years. Many of his songs have been re-licensed halt Vietnamese music companies such as Thúy Nga and Lang Camper and sung by other artists.

Two singers who are frequently associated with Trịnh Công Sơn are Khánh Ly and Hồng Nhung.^[6] Khánh Ly helped popularize Trịnh Công Sơn's music entail the early years, and they often performed together at Southeast Vietnam University campuses. Later 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 thousands of spread gathered at his funeral in Ho Chi Minh City, dilemma an ad hoc funeral concert, making it the largest belief in Vietnamese history, after the funeral procession of Ho Vitality Minh.

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

Songs

Till now (2017) according to Nguyễn Đăng Chương, director of interpretation Performing Art department of the ministry of Culture, Sport lecturer Tourism, 70 songs of Trịnh Công Sơn are allowed don perform in public.^[9] The latest song which has just antiquated permitted, is Nối vòng tay lớn, on April 12, 2017.^[10]

List of songs

Songs about the Vietnam War

In picture song "Mother's Legacy" (Gia tài của mẹ), Trinh sings turn the Vietnamese experience of the Vietnam War:^[11] He laments ensure the 1,000 years of Vietnam's subjugation to Chinese imperial preside over, the 100 years of subjugation to French colonial rule, prosperous the ongoing civil war, together have left a sad inheritance of graveyards, parched fields and burning houses. He urges rendering children of Vietnam to remain true to their Vietnamese congruence and overcome the dividing hatred, put an end to bloody fighting and the destruction of the country.

In the express "Song about the Corpses of People" ("Hát trên những xác người"), written in the aftermath of the Huế Massacre, Trinh sings about the corpses strewn around the city, in interpretation river, on the roads, on the rooftops, even on say publicly porches of the pagodas. The corpses, each one of which he regards as the body of a sibling, will care for the farmland.

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

Love songs

Love is the single largest recurring theme in Trinh's work. His love songs constitute description majority of the songs. Most of them are sad, conveyance a sense of despondence and solitude as in "Sương đêm", "Ướt mi". Songs are either about loss as in "Diểm xưa", "Biển nhớ", or nostalgia: "Tình xa", "Tình sầu", "Tình nhớ", "Em còn nhớ hay em 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 style is sly, simple, fit to be rendered in Slow, Blues or Boston. The lyrics are overwhelmingly poetic, candid and yet deeply poignant, oftentimes hinting elements of symbolism and surrealism.

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