Mỹ Linh

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Mỹ Linh (born Đỗ Mỹ Linh on August 19, 1975 in Hanoi ) is a Vietnamese singer. Along with Thanh Lam , Hồng Nhung and Trần Thu Hà , she is one of the four best-known singers in Vietnamese music. She is also the only Vietnamese singer to be signed to a US record label.

biography

Youth and education

Mỹ Linh was born into a working class family in Hanoi. She attended elementary and middle school in the Hai Ba Trung District of Hanoi and showed talent and musical ability at an early age. She has received awards at numerous regional music competitions for children. In 1994 she graduated from Bạch Mai High School and took first place in the Hanoi Conservatory of Music entrance examination. She received her music degree from the Conversatory and English from the Language Link School in 1997. She started her music career while studying and studying.

Music career

Mỹ Linh won second place in the national pop music festival with the band Hoa Sữa in August 1993. She herself received an award as Best New Artist for her song Thì Thầm Mùa Xuân, composed by Ngọc Châu . This festival was the start of her career.

In 1998 Mỹ Linh married the composer and director Anh Quân . The two have two children together. The marriage also had an impact on the further direction of her musical career. Mỹ Linh shows great interest in combining traditional Vietnamese music with western elements. Her husband, also a member of the soul and funk band Anh Em, became her main songwriter . Mỹ Linh therefore switched from a more classically oriented career to more pop-oriented sounds. Their music now also contained elements of soul, funk, and R&B . As a result, she toured her home country with her program Tiếng Hát Mỹ Linh . She had appearances in Hanoi, Da Nang and Ho Chi Minh City . In 1999 she released the album Tóc Ngắn .

In 2003 Mỹ Linh signed a contract with the US record label Blue Records. Their plan to release an English-language album drew widespread media coverage in Vietnam. Coming to America was published in 2004 and contained almost exclusively English-language plays.

In 2005 the album Chat với Mozart was released , which has its roots in classical music . Although Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart served as the name giver for the album, there is actually not a single Mozart piece on the album. Instead, the album contained a crossover of classical pieces by Vivaldi , Schubert and Tchaikovsky and jazz, soul and R&B.

In 2006, Mỹ Linh appeared as a member of the jury in the casting show Sao Mai Điểm Hẹn (a variant of Pop Idol ) on Vietnamese television.

Mỹ Linh toured in several countries including China, Thailand, Korea, Russia, Germany, Czech Republic, Ukraine, Switzerland, Great Britain, Cuba, the United States, Canada and Australia. In 2006 she was the only Vietnamese artist to represent her country at the Asian Divas Night in Nagoya , Japan.

Political commitment

All efforts by Mỹ Linh to conquer the western market arose with the consent of the Communist Party of Vietnam . According to her own statement, she tries to arouse interest in Vietnamese music in the West as well as to make Vietnam receptive to classical, western music. She appears frequently at political events and on Vietnamese television. On July 26, 2011, she was even appointed Tourism Ambassador for the Republic of Korea .

In 2004, Mỹ Linh released a recording warning against consuming bear bile as it posed a serious threat to wild bear populations. This short film, which was presented by several Vietnamese television companies, contains sequences filmed on bear farms in Hanoi. The film was produced for Education for Nature Vietnam . It is the first Vietnamese non-governmental organization to work to preserve the environment. The London agency Environmental Justice Foundation supported the production.

Discography

  • 1994: Xin Mat Troi Ngu Yen
  • 1995: Trịnh Công Sơn - Con Mai Tim Nhau
  • 1996: Vẫn Hát Lời Tình Yêu
  • 1996: Chiêu Xuan
  • 1996: Cho Một Người Tinh Xa
  • 1997: Tiếng Hát My Linh
  • 1998: Mùa Thu Khong Tro Lai
  • 1999: Toc Ngan
  • 2000: Tóc Ngắn 2 - Vẫn Hát Lời Tình Yêu
  • 2003: Made in Vietnam
  • 2004: Coming to America
  • 2005: Chat với Mozart
  • 2006: Để Tình Yêu Hát
  • 2011: Một Ngày (Toc Ngan Acoustic)

Web links

Commons : Mỹ Linh  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c d e Sandra Kurfürst: Redefining Public Space in Hanoi: Places, Practices and Meaning . LIT Verlag Münster, Münster 2012, ISBN 978-3-643-90271-9 , p. 93 .
  2. ^ Scott A. Woodward: Around the World with Voyager: Hanoi. (No longer available online.) Scottawoodward.com, archived from the original on February 15, 2016 ; accessed on February 14, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.scottawoodward.com
  3. ^ Dale A. Olsen: Popular Music of Vietnam: The Politics of Remembering, the Economics of Forgetting . Routledge, 2008, ISBN 978-1-135-85850-6 , pp. 56-58 .
  4. ↑ Singer My Linh to be tourism ambassador for RoK. Vietnamplus.vn, July 27, 2011, accessed February 14, 2016 .
  5. ^ Environmental Justice Foundation: ENV - My Linh PSA. Vimeo , October 10, 2008, accessed February 14, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Mỹ Linh
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Đỗ Mỹ Linh (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Vietnamese singer
DATE OF BIRTH 19th August 1975
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanoi , Vietnam