During these historic April days, if we were to name the people who are the hardest to meet, but also the easiest to meet, we would probably have to mention the "Red Music Trio" Dang Duong - Trong Tan - Viet Hoan. "We were almost fully booked for the entire month of April and even before that. All over the provinces and cities, not just Ho Chi Minh City, we all did programs to celebrate the 50th anniversary of national reunification. Not to mention nearly 80 large projects and works across the country were simultaneously started and inaugurated, in a year with many important milestones of the country...", singer Dang Duong excitedly shared. The "musical march" of the "three musketeers" will be concluded with the live concert " The Country is Full of Joy" taking place at the Vietnam-Soviet Friendship Palace on the evening of May 24.

Clapping in… silence

Dang Duong had an emotional performance in Ho Chi Minh City on the evening of April 19. "For the first time, I performed on an outdoor stage in front of the People's Committee and the "auditorium" was Nguyen Hue walking street with streams of people constantly gathering from all over the streets. Many of them were foreign tourists and especially countless young people. A whole scene of joy and liveliness of a vibrant city appeared before my eyes when I sang the song from the city named after Uncle Ho , right in Ho Chi Minh City...", Meritorious Artist Dang Duong emotionally shared. "I saw him almost choke up when he touched those beautiful lyrics: Our country is dignified, our country is strong and rich..., and I myself felt speechless, even though I had heard my husband sing this song many times. I also saw the joyful and proud sparkling eyes of the young people. It was also them, in another youth music night, who might have been shouting enthusiastically in front of their idols, but at that moment, I suddenly saw them silent, silent in joy, and respect, before the past, and the country...", singer Kim Xuyen, who always accompanies her husband - Meritorious Artist Dang Duong, on every tour, contributed.

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"Red music does not have those stimulating screams, but in return there are applauses that can be called stadium-shattering, and sometimes there are just tearful eyes...", singer Trong Tan said about the "applause in the eyes" reserved for those who sing red music.

"The Sacred Map" and the Rainy Days

Special stages are always a "privilege" of red music, even when it extends from the luxurious space of the theater to the makeshift stages in the places where it takes root and belongs. Those are the sacred places of the nation, where the "audience" is not only those who come to burn incense to pay respect to those lying under the grass but also those who sacrifice for the happiness of their homeland: Quang Tri Citadel, Truong Son Cemetery, Hang Duong Cemetery... "Both times, once at Truong Son Cemetery (Quang Tri) and another time at Hang Duong Cemetery (Con Dao), before the show, the rain was still very heavy, but just before the opening time, the rain suddenly stopped, and then when the last performance ended, the rain poured down again... It was as if we were "protected" by our brothers and sisters...", singer Dang Duong, who sang Red Leaves at Truong Son Cemetery, recalled.

Trong Tan said he will always remember the time he sang "The Country" in Da Nang, in front of an audience of heroic Vietnamese mothers; or once, at Truong Son Cemetery: "During the choruses, Please sing about Him, oh country! Please sing about Mother, oh Fatherland! ..., there were times when I shed tears because I really couldn't hold back." Or the time he sang "We Watch Your Sleep" in Ba Dinh Square, " The Fatherland Calls Our Name" in the coastal city of Nha Trang, or in front of overseas Vietnamese in Europe... "The applause at that time was really different, it seemed to come from somewhere far away...", he told Thanh Nien.

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Another impressive stage in the memory of Meritorious Artist Dang Duong was the time he stood and sang on the Yet Kieu ship, a famous ship of the Vietnamese navy, in 2023. "My co-stars at that time were not Trong Tan or Viet Hoan but the navy soldiers, they stood in a row behind me like a breakwater. The young men were used to talking about the wind and waves, but when they put their hands on their chests and sang with me " In the distant island ", when they reached the part " In the middle of the ocean, thousands of coral flowers are blooming / The red petals of hope I send to you... ", I saw them suddenly choke up, their sunburnt faces suddenly lit up. Faces I met briefly but will never forget...", the chamber tenor emotionally recounted.

As durable as a red music fan

For years, singing over and over again the songs that everyone knows by heart, the hits... that are not exclusive to anyone, do the emotions of the artist gradually become numb over the years? "King of red music" Trong Tan once jokingly said that one day he had to... "get pregnant" 9 times because he was constantly asked to sing the "Tieng Dan Bau". "The people who sing the love songs of the country are also the ones who keep the special, sacred memories of a time, and convey positive, healthy messages, so once they are loved, they will be loved very long", Trong Tan expressed.

Dang Duong once chose the song "My Sun" to name his first live concert. The name of the person and the name of the show are indeed "appointments" with the sun, when he considered the lyrics " Why aren't you a flock of birds calling the dawn to wake up/Why aren't you the sun sowing carefree sunshine seeds " in the song " Aspiration " by musician Pham Minh Tuan as a guideline for his career and life.

And of course, the world of red music singers is the world of those who "sow seeds of carefree sunshine"!

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