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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 ...
Phạm Duy Tốn (1881 – 25 February 1924) was a Vietnamese writer. He was father of the songwriter Phạm Duy and French language writer and ambassador Phạm Duy Khiêm . [ 1 ] [ 2 ] He was widely considered as the first Vietnamese writer who wrote short stories following Western style.
In Paris at the lycée Louis-le-Grand from 1929 his circle included Léopold Sédar Senghor and Georges Pompidou. [1] [2] [3] He won the Prix Louis Barthou of the Académie Française for the autobiographical novel Nam et Sylvie 1942 under the pseudonym Nam Kim, then the Prix Littéraire d'Indochine in 1943 for Légendes des terres sereines [4] He earned his PhD from the University of Toulouse ...
Duy (Vietnamese pronunciation:) is a Vietnamese given name. Notable people with the name include: Đái Duy Ban (born 1937), Vietnamese scientist; Đào Duy Từ (1572–1634), Vietnamese poet; Duy Tân (1899–1945), Emperor of Vietnam; Phạm Duy (1921–2013), Vietnamese songwriter; Tống Duy Tân (died 1892), Vietnamese revolutionary
Duy Quang (né Pham Duy Quang; 4 November 1950 in Hanoi – 19 December 2012 in San Jose, California) was a Vietnamese American singer, best remembered for singing pop music from Vietnam in genre of yellow music, most notably composed by his father Phạm Duy.
The government of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam maintains that between 2 September 1945 and 2 July 1976 only the Democratic Republic of Vietnam and the Republic of South Vietnam were legitimate governments and that any rival governments were illegal ("reactionary" or "counter-revolutionary") organisations.
Mai traveled to the contest by sneaking into the back of transport trucks and hitching a ride from Đà Lạt City to Saigon. She won second prize singing Pham Duy's famous song, Ngày Trở Về. Mai lost to child-star Quốc Thắng who would also later become an iconic figure in the music world. She was only 11. [2]
[2] After the French colonial invaders, led by vice-admiral Charles Rigault de Genouilly attacked and captured the three eastern provinces of Gia Định, Định Tường, and Biên Hòa in 1862, and invaded the remaining western provinces of Vĩnh Long, An Giang, Hà Tiên in 1867, the French Empire abolished the administrative divisions ...