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Artist
Trúc Mai
12+ albums
nhac vangvietnamese
about
Trúc Mai (born December 29, 1942) is a famous Vietnamese pop singer who had first risen to prominence during the late 1950s as a popular headliner in the cabaret circuit of Saigon. A native of Saigon, South Vietnam, Trúc Mai was raised in a working class family in the district of Thủ Đức. At the age of 16, she began her professional singing career when she joined an organization which held live shows in support of South Vietnam's military troops and their families called Cục Tâm Lý Chiến. In 1959, Trúc Mai became a singer at the prestigious Văn Cảnh cabaret in Saigon performing nightly alongside other headliners such as Thanh Thúy, Thùy Hương, Thu Hương, Thái Xuân, Hùng Cường and Jo Marcel who was then known as Ngọc Minh. Shortly after, she was invited to join the lineup of performers headlining nightly at the Hòa Bình cabaret which included Bạch Yến, Túy Phương, Bích Chiêu and Nhật Thiên Lan. Within a short period of time, Trúc Mai would become one of the most popular singers of South Vietnam with a nightly performing route consisting of as many as six different venues around Saigon which included Olympia, Arc-en-Ciel and Đại Nam. Trúc Mai's signature live interpretation of Bambino, a song originally made famous by French pop singer Dalida, in translated Vietnamese lyrics became a favorite with her audience at cabarets and earned her the title as "Nữ Hoàng Mambo", the Queen of the Mambo. In 1960, she signed with Sóng Nhạc record company as an exclusive recording art
