Little known facts about Lieutenant Colonel, Meritorious Artist Huong Giang

Lieutenant Colonel, Meritorious Artist Huong Giang is a military singer who has pursued a professional music career for over 30 years.

With a sweet, mellow voice and a burning passion for art, she impresses audiences with her profound lyrics and melodies about her homeland, country and people of Vietnam.

Little known facts about Lieutenant Colonel, Meritorious Artist Huong Giang - niece of musician An Thuyen - 1 — Lieutenant Colonel, Meritorious Artist Huong Giang is a military singer who has pursued a professional music career for over 30 years.

Born and raised in Quynh Luu, Nghe An, Huong Giang was immersed in the lullabies of her grandmother and mother since childhood. The songs and folk songs nurtured her childhood soul, inspiring her and giving her a burning passion for music.

Huong Giang was fortunate to be born into a family with a tradition of loving music. Her grandparents established a theater troupe early to serve the people and the army. Meritorious Artist Huong Giang’s uncle is musician An Thuyen. The family has 9 siblings, the eldest is People’s Artist An Phuc, famous in the Vietnamese Cheo art world. In that ideal environment, music entered her heart very naturally.

"I am close to and increasingly admire the musical talent of Uncle An Thuyen, Brother An Phuc and my siblings in the family. They are the great source of motivation that urges me to constantly strive to find my own path," Huong Giang shared.

Little known facts about Lieutenant Colonel, Meritorious Artist Huong Giang - niece of musician An Thuyen - 2 — Lieutenant Colonel, Meritorious Artist Huong Giang in a performance for young people.

And then Huong Giang came to the art of music as a fate when musician An Thuyen recognized her talent. He encouraged her to go to Hanoi to study vocal music to pursue a professional path.

On the journey of nurturing her passion and desire to preserve folk materials in modern music trends, Huong Giang has never once thought of giving up. To enjoy the sweet fruits of her success, she had to go through many harsh experiences in life.

Huong Giang was not afraid of hardships and volunteered to be a singer for the Art Troupe of Military Region 9 when she was only 21 years old - 6 years working here and 7 years at the Army Music and Dance Theater gave her a lot of experience in artistic activities and teaching at the Army University of Culture and Arts.

“The most feared thing about teaching vocal music is the lack of experience because the knowledge in books is only a part. I am fortunate to have experienced many artistic environments to be able to accumulate and learn, and bring data from life into lectures for students. The trip to Truong Sa in 2015 helped me understand more about the life of a soldier, reminding myself to live a better, more responsible life, worthy of the sacrifices of the soldiers who day and night protect the sea and sky of the Fatherland," she shared.

Little known facts about Lieutenant Colonel, Meritorious Artist Huong Giang - niece of musician An Thuyen - 3 — Meritorious Artist Huong Giang in real life.

15 years ago, Huong Giang successfully recreated the image of the heroine Le Thi Rang - Ms. Su in the play Two Mothers by Major General and musician An Thuyen.

Possessing a lyrical soprano voice; delicate singing style; flexible voice when handling works such as mainstream songs, folk songs or Aria, Romane are all handled impressively by Huong Giang.

As an artist performing sweet and profound folk music, Huong Giang loves her homeland's melodies so she always explores and is creative in her singing.

Little known facts about Lieutenant Colonel, Meritorious Artist Huong Giang - niece of musician An Thuyen - 4 — Author Vuong Xuan Nguyen accompanies Lieutenant Colonel, Meritorious Artist Huong Giang in the music development project.

After more than 30 years of pursuing her career, Meritorious Artist Huong Giang has won many prestigious awards. As a military artist, she excellently won the Second Prize in the Spring Solo Competition and the Soldiers' Contest organized by the General Department of Politics in 1998 with the song "Uncle's Advice Before Going Away" ; 2 Silver Medals for National Television for music films by Can Tho Television, Silver Medal at the 2003 Military Professional Music and Dance Festival, Gold Medal at the 2008 Military Professional Art Festival, Gold Medal at the 2012 National Professional Festival...

As a lecturer at the Vocal Music Department of the Military University of Culture and Arts, Lieutenant Colonel, Meritorious Artist Huong Giang has continuously received certificates of merit from the Military Region Command. In 2016, she was awarded the title of Meritorious Artist. In 2022, Meritorious Artist Huong Giang was honored by the Ministry of National Defense as an Outstanding Woman of the Army.

Recently, Meritorious Artist Huong Giang and her colleagues embarked on a project to promote the musical values of regional folk songs and songs to inspire love for the homeland and pay tribute to heroic Vietnamese mothers and revolutionary predecessors.

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