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Le Quyen in Concert
Le Quyen is one of the most compelling singers to come out of Vietnam in the last two decades. Throaty, impassioned and versatile, her voice is no high-pitched warbler but rather a vessel for joy and emotion. Le Quyen is reportedly opposed to lip-syncing and one listen explains why: Those pipes don't need artificial help.
The singer was born into a musical family in Hanoi in 1981, the youngest of four siblings. Both her parents were singers and their talent crystalized in their youngest daughter. Le Quyen trained early in the Northern Opera style, and while she also studied at Hanoi's University of Art, it wasn't long before her talent became too evident to ignore. She began singing in clubs around Hanoi and made enough of a name for herself that in 2002 she was chosen to sing the theme song for the SEA Games (a sort of regional Olympics). Her big break came when she was cast as a singer on the Vietnamese TV show Bản Lĩnh Người Đẹp in 2004. Those eight episodes opened a lot of doors for her, but when she was offered a leading role in another TV show she turned it down. Her real love was singing, and she proved it when she released her debut album, Giấc Mơ Có Thật, that same year. It was an instant hit.
Le Quyen's career is marked by her versatility. She's sung ballads, pop music, contemporary folk songs, pre-war and contemporary songs and bolero. Yes, bolero. Vietnamese bolero, specifically, which fuses the slower tempo of the romantic Latin American genre to local song styles. Banned in 1975, the musical style was officially rehabilitated in 1986, but only made a real comeback in 2015. Le Quyen was one of the earliest Vietnamese singers to embrace it and her deft mastery has earned her the nickname Queen of Tearoom (she even won a coveted spot as a coach on the hit TV show Bolero Idol in 2017). Le Quyen hasn't rested on her laurels: In 2018, she released an album of songs by the late singer-songwriter Trinh Cong Son, whose love songs and anti-war anthems make him a favorite to this day.
She's won a slew of Green Wave and Zing Awards, as well as other accolades, and younger singers including Vu Thanh An, Quoc Bo and Nguyen Ngoc Thien cite her as an inspiration.