Dai Trang

Dai Trang (....-    ) is a beautiful Eurasian singer of Vietnamese, Chinese and French descent.

Born to a French-Vietnamese father and Vietnamese-Chinese mother on July 5, 19.. in Saigon, South Vietnam, Dai Trang grew up as the eldest in a family of two children.  She began her professional singing career at an early age and in 1989 won the national talent contest, Lien Hoan Ca Mua Nhac Nhe Toan Quoc, held in Ho Chi Minh City.  Taken under the wings of singer Chung Tu Luu, Dai Trang performed nightly at the most prestigious cabarets and venues in Ho Chi Minh City including the outdoor venue known as 126 Amphitheater.  In a short period of less than two years, she would become one of the hottest new young singers in Vietnam.  In 1990, Dai Trang was selected to perform with singer Ngoc Son on a highly successful concert tour of cities in the Mekong Delta.

In 1991, Dai Trang and her family moved to the United States.  The following year she was offered with a contract by Ngoc Chanh, the owner of the Ritz in Anaheim, California, to become an exclusive weekly performer at his nightclub alongside the lineup of singers that included Y Lan, Carol Kim, My Huyen, Henry Chuc and Lilian.  Shortly thereafter, she would captivate the Vietnamese-American audience with her beauty and unique style of singing on a larger scale when she appeared on Vietnam Performing Arts Television performing Tinh Khuc Mua Xuan, a song written by legendary composer Ngo Thuy Mien.  Dai Trang's next venture, which was her lengthy collaboration with May Productions as a regular performer on the Hollywood Night music video series, would turn her into a star.

With each of Dai Trang's performances on Hollywood Night of such songs like Dancing All Night, Jump in My Car, Tokyo By Night and Venus, she would leave a lasting impression with viewer audiences.  Dai Trang's European features and statuesque physique clearly made her stand out from other Vietnamese performers featured on the Hollywood Night video series.  Right around this time, Dai Trang had also formed her own music production label and released a trilogy of well-received solo studio albums:  Dai Trang Voi Nhung Tinh Khuc Tuyet Voi (1992), Tinh Chi La Giac Mo (1993) and Dai Trang Voi Nhung Tinh Khuc Que Huong (2000).  Her popularity with overseas Vietnamese audiences enabled Dai Trang to travel the world, performing at live shows throughout the United States, Canada, Europe and Australia.  She became one of the busiest overseas Vietnamese singers during the 1990s with a non-stop work schedule of bookings for one night engagements in various cities with concentrations of Vietnamese populations across the globe.
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Toward the end of the 1990s, Dai Trang began to set her focus on starting a family.  In 1998, she married Chau Ta, a well-respected herbalist and entrepreneur in the Vietnamese-American community.  The following year, the couple were blessed with the birth of their son.  In 2002, Dai Trang earned her MBA from the University of California, Irvine.  For the past 15 years, Dai Trang has hosted many television infomercials and radio programs to promote and market Bach Lien Tra, an herbal tea product created and patented by her husband.  Together, she and her husband also run an herbal retail store, Phuc An Duong, located in the Little Saigon community of Westminster, California.

Dai Trang has consistently remained active in her singing career through the years.  She continues to perform at live shows for overseas Vietnamese audiences worldwide and has been a regular performer on the live show music video series produced by Blue Ocean Music.  

Link(s):

10 Viet Celebs Who Don't Look Vietnamese
50 Most Beautiful Vietnamese Women of All Time


External Link(s):  

DaiTrangSinger.BlogSpot.com
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