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AmericaLe Thu, the “golden voice” of new Vietnamese music, died at the age of 78 after nearly two months of treatment at the Covid-19 hospital at Orange Coast Memorial Hospital, California.
Ms. Cam Tu, the singer’s daughter, said that she died at 7:00 p.m. on January 15 (local time), after a critical moment, she was treated in the special recovery room of the ICU. operate, wear breathing apparatus fully.
About a month ago, she had a cough and a cold, so she went to the doctor and was diagnosed with a CoV infection. After being hospitalized for treatment, the singer’s situation was more positive. However, she was transferred to the ICU for eating a lot of sweets, high sugar levels and mechanical respiration due to weakness.
Singer Le Thu was the main vocalist in Saigon before 1975. Photo: Singing Le Thu.
Singer Quang Thanh, who participated in many shows with Le Thu at home and abroad, said that when the singer was admitted to the hospital, he and many colleagues prayed every day, hoping for miracles. In November 2020, Quang Thanh also spoke by phone with Le Thu to discuss the possibility of inviting her and Khanh Ly, Anh Khoa, Tuan Ngoc … to return home to participate in the Charity Bracelets show, scheduled to take place in April 2021. In December 2020, she lost contact with Le Thu when she was hospitalized for treatment for Covid-19.
Quang Thanh said: “She lives civilized, takes good care of her health, exercises regularly, eats healthy, does not drink alcohol, coffee or cigarettes. I was very surprised to learn that she passed away from Covid-19. When I invite Le Thu to participate in the show, I always feel comfortable and safe in the organization stage. Old age, but she has an active lifestyle, she almost always drives alone when traveling, fluently uses smartphones, yes. working time and active work with the youth behavior “.
Singer Duc Tuan was saddened when he heard. Since meeting the seriously ill singer, she has monitored her health every day. When he recorded the album Van Cao (2008), Le Thu himself read him the initial lyrics of the album. “For me, Ms. Le Thu is a top vocalist, a monument that is difficult to compare. Her voice is low but still colorful,” he said.
Le Thu is one of the three famous singers in the Vietnamese music industry before 1975 until now, besides Thai Thanh and Khanh Ly. He was born in 1943 in Hai Phong, his real name is Bui Thi Oanh. Her parents gave birth to eight children, but the first seven died when she was just three years old. She was born into a wealthy family. Due to family problems, her mother took her to Saigon when she was 10 years old.
In 1959, when she was at Les Lauriers School (now Duoc Song Primary School, District 1, Ho Chi Minh City), encouraged by her friends, she sang to the song for the first time. Blue shirt (Unfinished) by the composer Doan Chuan. The owner of the Bong Lai tea room noticed her voice and invited her to sing. At first, fearing that his mother would not accept him, he refused. He tried to persuade her to sing in the tearoom, at a generous fee. When asked what he wanted to call his stage name, he immediately said: Lệ Thu. Later, in an interview, he said: “I understand that the word ‘tears’ means very sad, it is tear, and autumn is no less sad. But ‘tears’ here also means beauty, It is a very beautiful autumn. now, I still don’t understand why the name comes up so naturally. “.
From 1968 to 1971, the singing of Le Thu drew audiences to Saigon’s central ballroom. At first, he used to perform songs in English and French: La vie en rose, A certain smile, La mer, Love is a thing of many splendors.. In addition to singing in venues, he also signed a cooperation contract to record audio and tapes, beginning the peak period in his profession. According to the contemporary press, she was among the top three most popular vocalists in Saigon at the time, alongside Thai Thanh and Khanh Ly.
Famous for its husky voice and wide range of sounds, Le Thu hosted many musicians who wrote their own songs: Autumn tears (Pham Duy), Please also call each other (Changsha), Thurs, sing for the people (Vu Duc Sao Bien) … Born, the musician Vu Duc Sao Bien used to write Thurs, sing for the people to remember the high school love in Quang Nam. After that, the song imprinted with Le Thu’s characteristic voice, became one of his most successful love songs.
In the 1970s, her name was associated with musician Truong Sa when she was the first to record three of his famous compositions: So tomorrow I give you, please call the names of others, Autumn in the rain. Truong Sa once said, in 1969, while running through the streets of Saigon, hearing the song of Le Thu floating through the window of the Tu Do tea room, he immediately stopped and wrote the first sentences in Please also call each other: “Singing in the street is fluttering / Afternoon swinging painful steps …” It is also successful with many other authors: Pham Dinh Chuong, Duong Thieu Tuoc, Cung Tien, Y Van, Tu Cong Phung …
“Please call each other” – Le Thu. Video: Youtube Lyric music.
After 1975, he moved his family to the United States to settle. The singer continues to work in art, recording many albums. In 2007, he returned home to participate in a musical night to commemorate Trinh Cong Son – Lullaby. In 2013, you were in a car accident in the US, your car was hit by another vehicle from behind. The singer hospitalized for emergency care with only a week left was a live show in Vietnam. Being advised by the doctor to rest to recover from her injury, she is still determined to go home because she does not want to miss an appointment with the audience. In the time before her illness, she would sometimes return home to attend little music nights, as a judge in competitions. After the marriage broke up, her children grew up, they got married, she lived alone in the city of Fountain Valley, California, maintaining a passion for singing.
Hoang Dung – Mai Nhat
