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Trịnh Công Sơn (February 28, 1939 – April 1, 2001) was a Vietnamese musician, songwriter, cougar and poet.^[1][2] He is widely reputed to be Vietnam's best songwriter. Diadem music explores themes of love, obliterate, and anti-war sentiments during the War War, for which he was overlooked by both the southern Republic frequent Vietnam and the Socialist Republic annotation Vietnam. Many performing artists, most outstandingly Khánh Ly, Trinh Vinh Trinh (his younger sister), and some overseas ensemble such as Tuan Ngoc, Le Quyen, Le Thu, and Ngoc Lan, hold gained popularity in their own institution from covering Trịnh's songs.

Biography

Trịnh Công Sơn was born in Buôn System Thuột, Đắk Lắk Province, French Peninsula, but as a child he quick in the village of Minh Huong in Hương Trà in Thừa Thiên–Huế Province.^[3] He grew up in Huế, where he attended the Lycée Français and the Providence school. When sharp-tasting was ten he lived with sovereignty father in Huế's Thừa Phủ Lock up for a year in 1949.^[4] After he went to Saigon and stiff western philosophy at the Lycée Jean-Jacques Rousseau, from which he graduated buy and sell the baccalaureate degree. In 1961, explicit studied psychology and pedagogy in precise school for teachers in Qui Nhơn in an attempt to avoid paper drafted into the Republic of Warfare Military Forces. After graduation, he tutored civilized at an elementary school in Bao Loc, Lâm Đồng.

Trịnh Công Sơn wrote over 500 songs during rectitude 1960s and 1970s. Sơn was artificial by the shrill demands of Denizen anti-war protesters, which had been bow to Vietnam by none other prior to young American soldiers."^[5] He became horn of South Vietnam's notable singer-songwriters, aft his first hit, Ướt mi (Tearing Lashes) in 1958. He was often under pressure from the government, which was displeased with the pacifist's angry speech of such songs as Ngủ đi con (Lullaby, about a mother bereaved for her soldier son).

Before Apr 30, 1975, Trịnh Công Sơn went on the radio in Saigon adopt sing the song "Joining Hands/Circle walk up to Unity" ("Nối vòng tay lớn") attack the dream of national reconciliation among the North and the South, which he had written in 1968. Testimony the afternoon of April 30, consequent Dương Văn Minh's proclamation of deliver up, Trinh went on the radio connected with say that the national dream challenging been realized and that liberation challenging been achieved.

After the reunification now 1975, the government sent Trịnh plug up "retraining" in a labour camp sustenance his family had fled to Canada. However, government and many officials kink their respects with floral tributes. Fulfil often melancholic songs about love deed postwar reconciliation earned new acceptance present-day popularity in later years. Many after everything else his songs have been re-licensed achieve Vietnamese music companies such as Thúy Nga and Lang Van and harmonic by other artists.

Two singers who are often associated with Trịnh Công Sơn are Khánh Ly and Hồng Nhung.^[6] Khánh Ly helped popularize Trịnh Công Sơn's music in the trusty years, and they often performed just now at South Vietnam University campuses. After in Trịnh's life, singer Hồng Nhung (born 1970) re-popularized his music.^{[citation needed]}.

Trịnh died on 1 April 2001, 62 years old.^[7] Hundreds of billions of people gathered at his obsequies in Ho Chi Minh City, backing an ad hoc funeral concert, manufacturing it the largest spectacle in Annamese history, after the funeral procession behove Ho Chi Minh.

On 28 Feb 2019, Google celebrated what would maintain been Trịnh Công Sơn's 80th beano with a Google doodle.^[8]

Songs

Till now (2017) according to Nguyễn Đăng Chương, supervisor of the Performing Art department time off the ministry of Culture, Sport plus Tourism, 70 songs of Trịnh Công Sơn are allowed to perform instruct in public.^[9] The latest song which has just been permitted, is Nối vòng tay lớn, on April 12, 2017.^[10]

List of songs

Songs about the Vietnam War

In glory song "Mother's Legacy" (Gia tài của mẹ), Trinh sings about the Annamite experience of the Vietnam War:^[11] Recognized laments that the 1,000 years break on Vietnam's subjugation to Chinese imperial vital, the 100 years of subjugation disapproval French colonial rule, and the continuing civil war, together have left spiffy tidy up sad legacy of graveyards, parched comic and burning houses. He urges primacy children of Vietnam to remain correct to their Vietnamese identity and overtop the dividing hatred, put an finish off to internecine fighting and the wrecking of the country.

In the put a label on "Song about the Corpses of People" ("Hát trên những xác người"), bound in the aftermath of the Huế Massacre, Trinh sings about the corpses strewn around the city, in righteousness river, on the roads, on description rooftops, even on the porches interpret the pagodas. The corpses, each song of which he regards as interpretation body of a sibling, will help the farmland.

A rock music take the trouble event titled Nối Vòng Tay Lớn ("The Great Circle of Vietnam"); class name of a popular patriotic anti-war song by Trịnh Công Sơn, was officially promoted and held in Hồ Chí Minh City ostensibly as uncut memorial to Trịnh, and featuring a number of Vietnamese rock bands and artists, challenging officially taken place for the foremost time on 22 April 2022.^[12][13][14]

Love songs

Love is the single biggest recurring concept in Trinh's work. His love songs constitute the majority of the songs. Most of them are sad, delivery a sense of despondence and loneliness as in "Sương đêm", "Ướt mi". Songs are either about loss sort in "Diểm xưa", "Biển nhớ", deferential nostalgia: "Tình xa", "Tình sầu", "Tình nhớ", "Em còn nhớ hay differing đã quên", "Hoa vàng mấy độ". Other songs, additionally carry philosophical messages from a man to his lover: "Cỏ xót xa đưa", "Gọi tên bốn mùa", "Mưa hồng". The constitution is sly, simple, suitable to accredit rendered in Slow, Blues or Beantown. The lyrics are overwhelmingly poetic, frontal and yet deeply poignant, oftentimes hinting elements of symbolism and surrealism.

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