Hong Vy - a life of fire and flowers

A few years ago, Hong Vy and her fellow artists organized a series of Love and Passion programs, performing chamber music and folk music from Vietnam and the world. Both programs were performed for 4 nights in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City, bringing the audience soaring emotions about the beauty of music and the dedication of the artists. At the Ho Chi Minh City Theater, the audience stood up and applauded continuously and continued to stand like that through 3 encore songs (bonus performances), an extremely rare thing.

Hồng Vy - một đời hoa lửa - Ảnh 1. — Meritorious Artist Hong Vy performs in a program of the Ho Chi Minh City Ballet Symphony Orchestra and Opera.

Even pop stars are scared to think about doing their own shows, but Hong Vy, a chamber music artist, has her own shows, to sing what she loves and cherishes, to live fully the passion of a performing artist.

At Vy's live show at the end of 2020 in Hanoi , which Hong Vy had put all her efforts into making as her life's work, after she finished singing the song "The girl sharpening spikes" , one of the songs that accompanied Hong Vy's singing after the Sao Mai 2001 award, the audience below applauded loudly, and backstage, fellow artists clapped their hands together and said "This girl sharpens spikes and they are still sharp!". Looking at Vy singing like that, listening to Vy singing like that, no one would think that she was in the days of fighting for her life.

There is something that perhaps not many people know about Hong Vy, even those who love her singing and learn about her life, that is, although she spent most of her life and worked in art in Hanoi, and later moved to Ho Chi Minh City, Hong Vy has the special qualities of a highland girl, she has another hometown in Kon Tum , which contributes to Vy's strong, open-minded personality.

Later, Hong Vy grew up in the military environment, which made her stronger, to face both an unhappy personal life and a serious illness.

Many years ago, some music producers and show organizers in the South heard Hong Vy's recordings in her two revolutionary music albums, Hoa lua & Vy and Vinh quang Viet Nam (a special album with songs about Uncle Ho), they were very surprised at a "red music" voice that was gentle, beautiful, smooth and elegant like that, some people wondered why such a beautiful voice did not expand to singing love songs, which would have more audiences. After that, Vy released the album Giac mo mua la , her last album, with lyrical songs about Hanoi, as a farewell to the place she had been attached to from her youth until her fame, to come to the South, to become a main vocalist in the artist lineup of the Ho Chi Minh City Ballet Symphony Orchestra and Opera. This is where Hong Vy was able to indulge her other great passion besides revolutionary music, which is singing opera, with roles and classical excerpts that have made an unforgettable mark.

When the cancer became worse, perhaps Vy knew that her time was running out, she cherished doing more things that friends and audiences had wanted to hear from her beautiful voice for many years. Such as singing classic Vietnamese songs from the early days of modern music, or classical lullabies or lyrical songs that have gone through the years... Not only for those who love her voice, but also as a legacy she wanted to leave to her son. The boy has begun to know the value of his mother's voice, has learned to listen to and preserve things related to his mother.

Unfortunately, Vy did not have enough time to do all of those things. In her last days, she still called her artist friends to come to Hospital 175 to perform a performance for the patients and doctors, where she had been treated all this time. Vy could not attend that performance, but everyone talked about her a lot, and it brought a lot of emotions, laughter and tears, to remember the singer who lived beautifully like a flower, and fought like a warrior, until her last breath.