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Artist
Kim Anh
12+ albums
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about
Kim Anh (1953) is a popular overseas Chinese-Vietnamese singer who is best known for her signature rendition of Teresa Teng's classic love ballad, Qian Yan Wan Yu (A Thousand Words), known to Vietnamese music lovers as Mua Thu La Bay, in both Mandarin and Vietnamese. Born as Mach Kim Anh on September 4, 1953 in Dong Thap, a province of South Vietnam located in the Mekong Delta region near the Cambodian border, to parents of Hoa descent, she grew up in a bilingual household speaking both Vietnamese and Cantonese. In school, Kim Anh excelled academically. In 1969, she received a scholarship that enabled her to study abroad in Washington, D.C. as an accounting major. Kim Anh began her career as a professional singer for the Vietnamese community in the United States during the year of 1975 after she was approached by the owner of a Chinese restaurant called Empress in Washington, D.C., an American of Chinese descent who was in need of her interpretorial assistance with members of a Vietnamese band he had just hired. After a few times singing with the band during open mic, she would be asked to become their lead vocalist. For the next couple of years, Kim Anh would become the toast of the town in the Vietnamese community in Washington, D.C. as she enchanted audiences with her powerful vocals and smooth renditions of popular songs in Vietnamese, Chinese and English. Despite the sizable following she had been able to acquire in a relatively short period of time, Kim Anh's ro
