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Loan Chau is an emerging star and a new discovery for musical director Truc Ho at Asia Productions. Her real name is Ninh The Loan Chau, however she combined her parents' first names (Cat, from her father and Loan, from her mother) to come up with the stage name Ninh Cat Loan Chau. Loan Chau was born on September 15, 1973 in Saigon, Vietnam. She attended Doan Thi Diem elementary school and Marie Curie high school. Loan Chau came to the United States in 1991, and reunited with her family in Westminster California. Since leaving Vietnam, she misses her friends and school the most. She added, she also misses her first love(???). Loan Chau is the only musically inclined person in her family. As she recalled, her first experience in front of an audience was around the age of six where she sang in front of her classmates. At the age of 8, Loan Chau began writing children songs to perform for her friends. Due to this unusual gift, the teachers in her school took notice and allowed her to be part of a group of children in the entertainment committee. Her other musical activities involved being a part of her church's choir since a very early age. Loan Chau fondly talks about this period as one of the most memorable part of her childhood. In 1995, four years after arriving in California, Loan Chau won top honors at a karaoke contest at Ritz night club in Orange County. In 1996, after a meeting with Truc Ho, Loan Chau signed an exclusive contract with the Asia and became one of th