– How was the life of People's Artist Tran Hieu at the age of 87?
I've been singing since I was 11 years old, still holding the mic. It's rare to find an artist with a long career in singing and practicing vocals every day like me. Many young singers now have given up this habit.
So in 2016, I was awarded the certificate of "the oldest people's artist still performing on the music stage" by the Vietnam Record Organization. Which they gave themselves, I did not apply or register.
People's Artist Tran Hieu, 87 years old, still practices vocals every day, just looking forward to singing.
– Practice vocals every day but rarely go on stage to sing for health, are you sad?
What's sad? When the artist sings, there is a stage everywhere. When I'm not singing on stage, I sing to my wife, it's okay.
For me, practicing vocals and singing is like eating rice, not eating is death. The reason why I practice my voice every day is to prepare my mind anywhere, morning-afternoon-afternoon, when someone invites me to sing.
Artists who, when sitting with friends and fans, are asked to sing a song for fun, but they say they can't sing in the morning, and their voice is "cheer"... then throw it away. 87 years old, still can sing, listeners still clap their hands and want to listen to it again, that's great.
– Singing career spanning more than 70 years, what do you remember most?
I'm lucky that singing is welcomed everywhere, every contest won first prize. At the time of the competition, I didn't set my mind to win the First Prize, but when people found it worthy, they gave it. In 1983, a singing competition in Bulgaria had 37 participating countries and I was also the winner of the first prize. So now whoever invites me to sing, I go right away, I don't think it's nearly 90 years old. Before going to sing, I didn't have much money, but now I'm old and I don't need anything, sing for fun.
I remember the days when young people were enthusiastic about singing on the battlefield, standing in a deep hole singing passionately, when I stepped on my feet, there were 9 leeches clinging to me since I don't know. The image that will never be forgotten in the singing career is when the wounded soldier leans back to listen to me sing, then smiles and leaves forever.
When I went to Laos, I climbed to a height of 1.300m and saw a cliff, I and an accordion player sat down to sing 2 shows in the morning and in the afternoon with 20 songs. Now, when students show off the day of 4 shows, I laugh.
People's Artist Tran Hieu and his wife – Mrs. Thuy Nga.
– Besides wanting to sing, what do you wish for at the age of 87?
My life has been very fortunate but there are also unhappy things. I have 3 wives but not by promiscuity. I only know how to bring money back to my wife when I go to work, but that's my fate. The second wife has cancer, 4 years in a row she lies weak. After singing and teaching, I go home to take care of my wife. She then slowly walked away.
God loves me, so she will fall in love with the third woman. Thuy Nga is like a "fairy descending to earth". Over 3 years of living together, Nga always took care of me like a 20 year old child. At first we both lived in a rented house, and Nga told me to stay in her own house, I was afraid for many reasons. Then Nga brought the altar with the picture of my second wife home to smoke incense. I know it's Nga's sincerity, so I should come back.
Friends asked me if I had counted on "hundred years". Well, it's 87, life and death are due to fate, what's the point? My son is an artist, his paintings are very beautiful and sold in the US market. Tran Thu Ha's daughter is famous, her family is stable. Sometimes life doesn't go as I wanted, but now my children and I are happy with our own family. Having a "hundred-year-old" is also light enough to step into heaven, after all, let her "fairy come to earth" lo (laughs).
But Nga always teases me to live to 94 years old, and she will go first because of many diseases. Also worry! For many years, the couple relied on each other to live.
People's Artist Tran Hieu was born in 1936 in Hanoi. In 1954, he graduated from the Vocal Department, Vietnam School of Music (Vietnam National Academy of Music today). After that, he returned to work as a solo singer at the Central Theater of Music and Dance.
He studied at the Sofia Conservatory in Bulgaria for 3 years. From 1986-1991, People's Artist Tran Hieu was a solo actor at the Youth Theater. He is known for the songs: The elephant, Ho pulls the firecracker, The leader of the song, I'm Le Anh Nur, the funny postman... and success in teaching and training.
(Source: Vietnamnet)
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