Trinh Cong Son

Trinh Cong Son
▪ 2002

      Vietnamese singer and songwriter (b. 1939, Dac Lac province, Vietnam, French Indochina—d. April 1, 2001, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam), composed more than 600 songs, but he was dubbed the “Bob Dylan of Vietnam” in the West for his poignant antiwar songs during the 1960s and '70s. After his first hit, “Uot Mi” (“Crying Eyes”), in 1957, Son became one of South Vietnam's best-known singer-songwriters. He was often under pressure from the government, which was disturbed by the pacifist lyrics of such songs as “Ngu Di Con” (“Lullaby,” about a mother grieving for her soldier son). After the reunification of Vietnam in 1975, the new communist government sentenced Son to “reeducation” in a labour camp. In later years, however, his often melancholy songs about love and postwar reconciliation gained new acceptance and popularity.

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