Musician Lam Phuong passed away

Vo Vietnam, an American election program, confirmed the sad news. By voting for this show, it was said that earlier this year, with singer Huong Lan and Ngoc Anh, they went to the hospital to visit Lam Phuong, they are curing the accident. Before his death, the musician was paralyzed, unable to communicate due to complications from the disease.

At the end of 2019, the book Lam Phuong: I miss thousands of loves open to readers, written by Nguyen Thanh Nha based on family documents provided and investigated documents that had been written about him. The book is like a slow motion film about the typical life of Saigon music author in the period 1954 – 1975. He composed around 217 songs, of which, most of them are immortal works in the hearts of fans. for decades. 1950 to the present.

Separated childhood family of musician Lam Phuong

Or I think musician Lam Phuong passed away, singer Thanh Ha said she felt “lightning struck her ear”. She considers him one of the most important people in her career as a singer. On the first day of his career, I was working with him on the album. Love is as beautiful as a dream includes 10 Lam Phuong love songs. He piles up each of her attachment forms, helping her enter her mind to understand the spirit of work. He presented it to music centers abroad, step by step introduced it to the profession. In the last years of his life, Lam Phuong had to sit in a wheelchair and would often buy food to invite him into her home. Weak health, the man on television, music as the source of life. Thanh Ha said, “It’s gentler than the word ‘gentle.’ I’ve never seen a more rustic artist than that.”

* Excerpts from the life of Lam Phuong

Phuong Dung said that he mourned the loss of a talented author in the music industry. The singer said: “Generations of music lovers do not know his music. He is a kind person, healthy life, not arrogant, loved by many people.”

Lam Phuong’s real name is Lam Dinh Phung, born on March 20, 1937 in Kien Giang, the first child in a family of five. At the age of 10, he went to Saigon to study music, fortunately guided by musicians Hoang Lang and Le Thuong. His pseudonym Lam Phuong was taken from two words in his real name, Lam and Phung, meaning “hopefully towards the blue sky.”

His debut song was the song That autumn afternoon, writes at 15 years. Starting to write, he ran into financial difficulties when he often had to borrow money from friends to publish his works. With the success of his debut song, Lam Phuong worked harder and harder to compose it.

In 1955, Lam Phuong released a series of songs about his homeland, the most famous of which was Song of the season day. 1959 marries actor Tuy Hong. The context of Saigon’s cultural activities since the 1960s fostered his talent through his early compositions: That autumn afternoon, poor lifeSince then, the musician Lam Phuong gradually escaped from the poor life of immigrants, joined the music industry and shone in the theater.

In 1975, he moved with his family to the United States to settle. To have money to support his wife and children, Lam Phuong works all kinds of jobs, from cleaning floors, cleaning for Sears, to heavy-duty jobs like grinders and lathes. After life in the foreign land gradually stabilized, every weekend he tried to arrange to rent a restaurant to serve as a setting, he and Tuy Hong had a chance to relive the musical.

After divorcing Tuy Hong, she moved to France to live with her sister. The marriage breakdown, emotional sadness, ups and downs in his life made him produce many passionate love songs such as: Lonely love, Let me forget the age of pearls, Fog, Sad, Drunk, Dreaming, Happiness to bring, Goodbye Day, Tango for me, Fell in love …

In 1995, Lam Phuong returned to the United States. From 1996 to 1998, he collaborated with Vietnamese music centers in the United States and France and toured many European countries. In 2016, he and his group of artists abroad implemented the program. Lam Phuong Love Song In Singapore.

Tam Giao – Mai Nhat