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Pham Duy Biography, Life, Interesting Facts
Pham Duy is a singer and songwriter from Vietnam. His work covers many genres and tells stories of his homeland.
Childhood And Early Life
Pham Duy was born on October 5, 1921, in Hanoi, Vietnam. His full name at birth was Pham Duy C?n. Pham Duy was the youngest of five children and raised by his mother, Nguy?n Th? Hòa.
His father Pham Duy was a famous journalist who died when Pham Duy was two years old. His eldest brother, Ph?m Duy Khiêm, helped raise him. Khiêm was a writer and the country's ambassador to France.
Education
Pham Duy attended the College of Arts in Vietnam to study music. Pham Duy also attended Ky Nghe Thuc Hanh Vocational College. He lived in France for a while and studied music under Robert Lopez from 1954 to 1955.
During his time in Paris, Pham Duy also attended courses at the Institut de Musicologie though he was not actually a registered student.
Career
Pham Duy started his s
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Pham Duy dies at 91; Vietnam’s most prolific songwriter
Pham Duy, Vietnam’s most prolific songwriter, who captured the strength of his people through years of turbulence and composed dozens of tunes after settling in California, died Sunday in Ho Chi Minh City. He was 91.
His death was confirmed by his daughter Thai Hanh. He had been suffering from heart ailments after two operations, according to his family.
Known as the “musician of 1,000 songs,” Pham was revered by generations of Vietnamese, who memorized his melodies and taught them to their children and grandchildren.
Talk of his legacy — from folk tunes to spiritual and peace songs — filled the cafes of Westminster’s Little Saigon, the largest business and cultural district for Vietnamese Americans. On Sunday afternoon, customers at the Coffee Factory in Westminster ran to their cars, trying to catch radio news of his death.
Conversation inevitably turned to the death from cancer last month of his eldest son, singer Duy Quang, who, like his father, was popular in Vietnam and the U.S.
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Phạm Duy
Musical artist
Phạm Duy (5 October 1921 – 27 January 2013) was one of Vietnam's most prolific songwriters with a musical career that spanned more than seven decades through some of the most turbulent periods of Vietnamese history and with more than one thousand songs to his credit,[1] he is widely considered one of the three most salient and influential figures of modern Vietnamese music, along with Văn Cao and Trịnh Công Sơn.[2][3][4][5] His music is noted for combining elements of traditional music with new methods, creating melodies that are both modern and traditional. A politically polarizing figure, his entire body of work was banned in North Vietnam during the Vietnam War and subsequently in unified Vietnam for more than 30 years until the government began to ease restrictions on some of his work upon his repatriation in 2005.
Biography
Phạm Duy was born as Phạm Duy Cẩn, on 5 October 1921, in his house at the Hàng Thùng Street of Hanoi City, Tonkin, French Indochina. His father Phạm Duy Tốn w
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