Thanh Thuy

Born Nguyễn Thị Thanh Thúy in 1943 in Huế, Vietnam, Thanh Thúy began her singing career in 1959 at the age of 16. The next year her mother died and she took responsibility over her younger sisters while simultaneously becoming a national superstar--she was voted the most popular singer in south Vietnam for three consecutive years in the early 60s. Thanh Thuy can be considered as one of the singer causing the most buzz in the Vietnamese music scene during the '60s and dominated on the wave of radio and television as well as in South Vietnam and became a star on the stage music festival as well as a tea room. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.