Hoàng Thi Thơ Explained
| Hoàng Thi Thơ |
| Birth Date: | 1 July 1929 |
| Birth Place: | Triệu Phong, Vietnam |
| Death Place: | Glendale, California |
| Genre: | Jazz |
Hoàng Thi Thơ (Triệu Phong, Vietnam, 1 July 1929 - Glendale, California, United States, 23 September 2001) was a Vietnamese songwriter popular in the 1950s and '60s.[1] He was part of the musical diaspora which emigrated to Orange County, California.[2]
Notes and References
- David Lan Pham Two Hamlets in Nam Bo: Memoirs of Life in Vietnam Through Japanese ... Page 98 2008 "Phạm Duy, Lam Phương, Hoàng Thị Thơ, Văn Phụng were the most well known composers at that time."
- Adelaida Reyes Songs of the Caged, Songs of the Free: Music and the Vietnamese Refugee Experience. 1999 Page 124 "The local in this case has global implications. Many of Vietnam's most famous musicians now reside in Orange County. The presence of Pham Duy, Thai Thanh, Hoang Oanh, Hoang Thi Tho, Viet Hung, Duy Khanh, Khanh Ly, and Kim Tuyen, among others — luminaries in the Vietnamese musical firmament by the time they left Vietnam — has led overseas."
