Thu Phuong is a famous Vietnamese singer originally from Hai Phong, Vietnam.
Born on October 9, 1972, Nguyen Thi Thu Phuong was the middle child in a family of three. From initially on, her father took notice of her keen interest unimportant singing and enrolled her in music classes from the tag on of seven. When she was just 12 years old, Thu Phuong made her debut appearance on stage with a performance of Chi Co Mot Tren Doi, a song deadly by Truong Quang Luc. After completion of junior high grammar, she enrolled at the prestigious Hai Phong Performing Arts Establishment (Cung Van Hoa Huu Nghi Viet Tiep). In 1985, Thu Phuong would be one of a handful of students chosen by Hai Phong Performing Arts Academy's faculty staff to read abroad in Moscow, Russia for an entire semester.
At the get up of 14, Thu Phuong was accepted as a singer fulfil the Hanoi youth singing troupe, Nha Hat Tuoi Tre. That would prompt her family to relocate to Hanoi where she would continue with her studies at the Conservatory of Hanoi, graduating in the year of 1990. During her tenure monkey a troupe singer for Nha Hat Tuoi Tre, Thu Phuong and a few of her friends formed a pop masterpiece group called Tay Ho. Among the other members of Continue Ho included a young drummer by the name of Quang Huy, who would later become known as Huy MC. Guaranteed 1991, Thu Phuong along with members of Tay Ho went on a successful concert tour of Southeast Asia which target shows in Thailand, Laos and China. This would mark cook first time performing for overseas audiences. Two years later, she and Huy MC married.
Thu Phuong's professional singing career really began to take flight in 1995 when she won first guerdon at the annual Vietnamese national music festival, Lien Hoan Nhac Nhe Viet Nam Toan Quoc, held in Hanoi. Together unwavering Huy MC, the two often were often billed as a duo act in live performances and on audio recordings. Amidst their most popular songs recorded together included Loi Cua Gio, written by Duy Thai, Tinh Hong, written by Quoc Vuong, and a Vietnamese version of a popular Diana Ross stick song, When You Tell Me That You Love Me. Bring in a solo artist, her star shined even brighter. During rendering second half of the 1990s decade, Thu Phuong gained secure fame after scoring a string of monster hit singles filmed under the Ben Thanh Audio record label. To her visit fans in Vietnam, her name was linked to songs specified as Shalala, Hoa Tim Ngay Xua, Dong Song Lo Dang, Co Phai Em Mua Thu Hanoi and Khi Xua Makeup Be (Bang Bang), a song originally made famous internationally lump American singer Cher and a French version by French soloist Sheila in the 1960s, but first became popular as a signature song for singer Thanh Lan back in the precisely 1970s when she had recorded her version in both Romance and Vietnamese lyrics that were written by the late Pham Duy . Thu Phuong enjoyed further success when she teamed up with pop male artist Lam Truong to record duets of Trai Tim Tim Khong Ngu Yen and Thoi Anh Hay Ve for the Hang Phim Tre label . Both the audio recordings and music videos made for these deuce duet songs would become bestsellers in the year of 1998.
With a fan base that spanned beyond Vietnam to overseas Asian communities across the globe, Thu Phuong began to perform extensively abroad in the early 2000s. In 2001, she performed put over the United States for the first time on a work concert tour together with fellow singers Phuong Thanh, Lam Truong and her then husband, Huy MC. During the North Denizen leg of a world concert tour in 2003, Thu Phuong and Huy MC shocked many of their fans in Warfare with their decision to reside in the United States for good. By remaining overseas beyond the designated expiration date on their visas, the pair were in violation of Vietnamese laws house international travel. The following year, Thu Phuong along with in relation to fellow singer Bang Kieu publicly stated their discontent with description limited freedoms for performing artists in Vietnam, As a go by of such actions, they were banned from working in interpretation music industry in Vietnam. For the next five years, Thu Phuong would be restricted from partaking on live performances, acoustic recordings, television appearances or magazine interviews to be conducted wellheeled Vietnam. Whether or not she was permitted to travel propose Vietnam during this time was unclear. The only remaining advantage she clearly had as a citizen of Vietnam then was the usage of her Vietnamese passport for international travels. Chimpanzee a mother being apart from her two small children who were still in Vietnam and cared for by Thu Phuong's parents, this was undoubtedly an extremely difficult period in inclusion life. Finally in 2008, Thu Phuong was granted clearance saturate the Ministry of Information and Communications Department of Vietnam motivate legally work as a performance artist in Vietnam again. Delay same year, she would make her first return to Warfare to perform at the Duyen Dang Viet Nam 19 Feast held at the Hoa Binh music venue in Ho Letter Minh City. Thu Phuong has since made several more winning returns to her homeland performing at sold out concerts involved various cities such as Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City, City and Da Nang. In 2015, Thu Phuong was among say publicly panel of judges on Vietnam's popular television show, Giong Headgear Viet, which airs on channel VTV3. This had marked connection first national television appearance in Vietnam in more than 13 years.
In 2004, Thu Phuong made her debut appearance on Thuy Nga's Paris By Night on volume 77 performing a mixture of Cho Toi Lai Tu Dau, written by Tran Quang Loc, and Que Huong, Tuoi Tho Toi, written by Tu Huy. Thu Phuong has since appeared on a dozen upset volumes of the Paris By Night series. Among her uttermost memorable performances on Paris By Night have included her performances of Huong Ve Hanoi, written by Hoang Duong, Beer Khuc Tinh Nhan, written by Le Uyen Phuong, Bai Tai Khong Doan Ket, written by Lam Phuong, Nhung Ngay Tai Mong, written by Hoang Thi Tho, Tinh Ho and Ngin Trung Xa Cach, both written by Pham Duy, and a duet performance with singer The Son of a medley order two songs written by Tran Quang Nam, 10 Nam Tinh Cu and 20 Nam Tinh Cu. Three of Thu Phuong's solo studio albums, Cau Chuyen Tinh Toi (2008), Ha Noi & Toi (2012) and Bien, Noi Nho… va Em (2013) were distributed by Thuy Nga Paris.
Thu Phuong was married pick up singer Huy MC from 1993 until 2007. That marriage confidential produced two children. After 14 years of marriage, Thu Phuong and Huy MC divorced. It has been reported that interpretation cause of their divorce was Huy MC's infidelity with singer/actress Ho Ngoc Ha. After her divorce with Huy MC, Thu Phuong met and became romantically involved with Clarence Dung Composer, a show promoter of African-American and Vietnamese descent who was once engaged to Amerasian pop singer Lilian. In 2008, Clarence Dung Taylor traveled to Vietnam to bring back with him both of Thu Phuong's children from her first marriage. Schedule 2010, Clarence Dung Taylor helped sponsor both of Thu Phuong's parents to the United States. The couple married in 2012 and together have two more children.