Genderless singer Tran Tung Anh

600 people worked 24 hours for 9 MVs

At the grand auditorium of the National Academy of Music ( Hanoi ), the project "Singing Mountain" by singer Tran Tung Anh was solemnly performed with the support of the New Vitality Symphony and Folk Orchestra under the command of conductor Dong Quang Vinh.

In a yellow ao dai, young man Tran Tung Anh made the whole audience shiver when he showed off his soft, sweet, and clear female voice through the songs Nang Tho Xua Hue , Co Gai Vot Bat, Tieng Dan Ta Lu,... Immediately after that, he switched to a deep, strong male voice and alternated his voice rhythmically and subtly, in perfect harmony.

Listening to Tran Tung Anh sing, if you don't look at the stage, it's hard to believe that he's a guy, because from the way he drops the notes to the high notes, everything is very graceful and feminine. Two songs associated with famous female singers such as artists Tuong Vi, Anh Tho, Trang Nhung... were once again conquered by Tran Tung Anh, also with a high-pitched female voice, clear as a bell.

Singer Tran Tung Anh is a genderless singer, especially in Vietnam.

The genderless singer chose to perform three outstanding works in Vol1 of Mountain Singing with 9 songs, showing off her full voice and inner strength.

Tran Tung Anh honestly confided: "Singing in the morning with singers is torture. This is the first time I have made such an elaborate public appearance in 6 years, so I am very nervous. I see that conductor Dong Quang Vinh is very confident. After today, there will be a Tran Tung Anh almost as confident as Dong Quang Vinh."

Tran Tung Anh added that today's event was attended by people who love him very much: teachers at the Conservatory of Music, Bac Giang School of Culture and Arts, family members and many famous seniors in the profession.

Singer Phuc Tiep, Tran Tung Anh's teacher, commented: "The training of artists Tung Anh is a special case of possessing a castrato voice. Training such a voice is very arduous and painful. Creating works for these voices is even more difficult.

Because in the past, the British Royal Family did not allow female singers on stage, so male singers had to be trained from a young age to impersonate women when performing.

In Vietnam, Tung Anh is the first singer to confidently step out with a female soprano voice. The audience's reception for Tran Tung Anh is so great that his studies are temporarily put on hold. I hope Tung Anh will soon return to the lecture hall to complete his studies."

Tran Tung Anh is a special case possessing a rare castrato voice.

Musician Luu Quang Minh shared: "When I first met Tran Tung Anh, I was impressed by a sincere and genuine person, as if we had known each other for a long time. Tung Anh often teased me as 'music lover'.

In the works that Tung Anh chose for me to arrange, they are all familiar to many generations of Vietnamese audiences. I researched how to give them a new breath, suitable for Tran Tung Anh's voice.

The MV's visual director, Vuong Khang, shared: "Khang and Tung Anh are not very close, and the two brothers don't have much time to talk because one is from the South and the other from the North. When Tung Anh participated in Familiar Faces, which I directed, I saw that Tung Anh had a special voice and great enthusiasm.

I haven't directed a music video for a long time because I'm busy with TV shows, but when Tung Anh invited me, I saw that he was very enthusiastic. This is the only music project I'm doing this year.

9 MVs were filmed in just 24 hours. This was a special project, Tung Anh sang with the orchestra behind him, each MV had a different color but all had something in common. Nearly 600 people worked hard.

To do this project, I also hesitated a lot, wondering if it was possible to make 9 MVs continuously in one day. With normal MVs, the number of machines is less, but here, we have to increase a lot of people and machines, like a live show on stage but done in a studio. This could be a new direction for artists."

Don't try to sing like previous artists.

However, contrary to director Khang's worries, Tung Anh expressed his complete trust in the crew. He also took on the role of Production Director. "From early morning until the end at 3am the next morning, there were no problems, no arguments, everything went very smoothly. I am confident in my crew," Tung Anh proudly said.

He also said he had to be given 8 bottles of water, and his voice was hoarse this morning so he felt his performance was "bad", not at his peak despite receiving enthusiastic support from the audience.

After participating in the Voice of Vietnam 2017, Tran Tung Anh participated in a series of hot game shows. During those years, Tung Anh still released small products and the number of views from the audience reached tens of millions. This is rare. He said that the path he took was not paved with roses, but he always tried and after six years of pursuing art, he felt he was at his peak.

Singing songs performed by famous artists, Tung Anh was quite hesitant but did not give up. He affirmed that he did not try to sing like previous artists but chose his own path.

The 9 songs in the MV "Nui Hat" are famous songs of the past, performed by singer Tung Anh in a new and unique way.

In the 9 songs in the MV, there are both male and female voices, so Tran Tung Anh is not afraid of the audience getting bored. When working with the crew, Tran Tung Anh does not put his ego first but completely respects the opinions of the two music directors. He does not consider Nui Hat as his own project but calls it a joint product of the whole crew.

In particular, in this project, there is a piece called “Eternal Beauty” composed by Tran Tung Anh himself to praise his parents’ love. In this MV, Tung Anh sings both male and female voices.

The album "Singing Mountain" comes from Tran Tung Anh's childhood dream - a boy from the mountains of Bac Giang who loved singing, often sang loudly on the way to school and wished that in the future he would do something to express the beauty of the mountains and forests.

The Mountain Singing Project includes 9 MVs: The sound of the zither, The poet of Hue, The lake on the mountain, Still fate, Passing the windy bridge, Nine levels of love, Northwest love song, The singing in the Pac Bo forest, and Forever beautiful love...

Tung Anh's parents were soldiers and met each other in the Central region. The 9 songs traveled across the country where his parents had been. His parents loved to sing, and his father always took him along to the veterans' art performances. That made the love of music seep into Tung Anh's blood. The Mountain of Singing was the gift he gave his father on the year of his death.

In the heart of the male singer, his father is a very gentle person. When he was young, his family was poor, his parents went to sing in the army by bicycle, often carrying Tran Tung Anh on their backs. Listening to his parents sing, the love for singing was in Tran Tung Anh from that day on.

However, Tran Tung Anh confessed that he and his father were not close. They rarely talked. However, Tran Tung Anh always felt his father's love when everything he wanted to do was silently supported by his father. During the days when his father was seriously ill, Tran Tung Anh, who was living and working in Ho Chi Minh City at that time, returned home and was always by his side to take care of his father with his family.

"When my father was about to die, he was very close to me and loved me. Every time he woke up, he would ask where Tung Anh was. My father loved to listen to me sing. During the days he was hospitalized, he often played the songs I sang on YouTube next to his bed to listen all night long. When my father was weak, people came to visit him, and he even asked everyone to bring speakers so Tung Anh could sing for everyone to hear. Seeing me sing like that, my father was very happy," Tran Tung Anh said.

At that time, Tran Tung Anh also wanted to do a personal live show project for his father, so that his father could sit in the first row at the Opera House to watch his son sing, but it was too late. His father's illness became so serious that he could not survive. Fortunately, before that, when participating in some game shows in Ho Chi Minh City, he had also brought his parents to watch, so his heart was less troubled.

And today, after many months of nurturing and making, Vol1 of Mountain Singing has fulfilled Tran Tung Anh's wish to give his father a truly thoughtful musical gift. "I was born in Bac Giang, opening my eyes to see only mountains. The same is true on the path I take, to reach the top requires a lot of hardship. When people ask who my backer is, it is my family, my sister" - Tung Anh choked with tears.

Source: https://www.baogiaothong.vn/giong-ca-phi-gioi-tinh-tran-tung-anh-toi-sinh-ra-o-bac-giang-mo-mat-ra-toan-la-nui-19223092420563291.htm