Famous singer Thanh Thuy - the muse in the song "Wet eyes"
Famous singer Thanh Thuy was born in 1943 in Hue in a family of six children, including a father from the North and a mother from Hue. Due to difficult family circumstances, her mother suffered from a serious illness, and the whole family had to live in a small rented room.
That's why, around the end of the 50s of the last century, at the age of 15, Thanh Thuy started singing. She quickly left her mark with bolero songs such as: Midnight in the street; Midnight rain; Sad street... She was also a singer who was given the most nicknames by the audience such as: Voice of a ghostly man; Voice of singing at 0 o'clock; Voice of singing about the night... Not only did she possess a rare deep female voice in the music industry, she also had outstanding beauty, becoming the dream lover of many artists at that time. They were Wrote many songs for her, such as: Wet eyes; Thuy has gone; I heard you got married...
Famous singer Thanh Thuy. (Photo: TL)
In 1961, she was awarded the title of "Miss Artist" at Anh Vu Tea Room - a famous singing venue in Saigon in an event organized by Dr. Truong Ngoc Hon. Poet Hoang Truc Ly once praised Thanh Thuy's beauty through the poem "Sad Singer": "From you, my voice rises to the sky/ My hand caresses your hair, my hand reaches for the sound/ The thread of sadness splits into my soul/ Listening to my skin and flesh being torn apart in the past".
Famous singer Thanh Thuy was also the muse in many of Trinh Cong Son's songs. He once said that he met Thanh Thuy in 1958, when he and his friends went to My Canh tea room in Saigon to drink and listen to music. By chance, he heard the impressive, sad singing voice of a singer from Hue. The musician wrote a piece of paper asking Thanh Thuy to sing the song "Autumn Rain" by Dang The Phong. She gently thanked him and then began to sing. A few months before, her father had passed away and her mother was suffering from severe tuberculosis. Because of that, she could not control her emotions, singing and crying at the same time.
Famous singer Thanh Thuy's "slim and skinny" figure makes many guys crazy. (Photo: TL)
Later, Trinh Cong Son recalled Thanh Thuy's tears and composed the song Wet Eyes . He wrote in an introduction to the song: "Those tears were like a small rain on my fragile soul, forcing me to retreat further into a world even more distant than the one that once made me cry."
From then on, Trinh Cong Son and Thanh Thuy gradually got to know each other and became close. One time, while taking the female singer home after a performance, looking at her figure, he continued to write the song " Love for a person ": "Love for the smile and the loose hair/ The autumn withered on the lips/ Every night passing through the dark alley...".
In the 1970s, after many years of artistic activities, Thanh Thuy established a music center named after her, achieving no small amount of success with about 30 music tapes.
After 1975, she moved to the US with her family. Here, she continued to establish a music center, in addition to collaborating with a number of other centers, continuing to release music albums.
After 2016, she rarely participated in artistic activities and no longer appeared at major music events. She is now 80 years old in the US. Her children are all grown up, but none of them follow the path of art.
Source: https://danviet.vn/nu-danh-ca-co-nhan-sac-troi-ban-tung-duoc-menh-danh-la-hoa-hau-nghe-si-thap-nien-60-20240329062135918.htm
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