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Artist
Lệ Thu
12+ albums
vietnamesevietnamoldiesrock n rollSoutheast Asian Pop
about
Lệ Thu (1943- 2021) was one of the most famous singers in South Vietnam from the 1960s up until the Fall of Saigon in 1975. Born in Hải Phòng as Bùi Thị Oanh, she and her mother would leave their home in the communist North for a new life in South Vietnam when she was just 10 years old. At age 16 while still in high school, she and a few friends decided to stop by Bồng Lai Nightclub in Saigon one night where she went up on stage to sing a song during open mic. The owner of Bồng Lai was so impressed with her performance that he immediately approached her with a job offer to sing regularly at his club. Concerned that her parents would object should they find out, she accepted the offer to sing nightly at Bồng Lai under the alias, Lệ Thu, which would become her permanent professional stage name. After 3 years, Lệ Thu left Bồng Lai to perform nightly at Tự Do Nightclub in Saigon in 1962. In the years that followed, Lệ Thu would collaborate with Jo Marcel and become one of the most popular headliners at major cabarets and nightclubs of Saigon such as Hòa Bình, Ritz and Queen Bee. Lệ Thu also recorded for numerous record labels in South Vietnam prior to 1975 such as Shotguns, Continental, Premier, Sơn Ca and Mây Hồng. Among her most popular signature songs include Ngậm ngùi, Đừng Bỏ Em Một Mình, Cho Tôi Được Một Lần, Nửa Hồn Thương Đau, Thu Hát Cho Người, Hạ Trắng and Chiếc Bóng Bên Đường, the theme song of a movie by the same name which had starred Kiếu Chinh, Kim Cương and T
