We had the fancy of having company performers Khanh Hiep Le and Diem Trang Vo in our level MUSI207/307 Global Pop this week. A song-writer, guitarist, and diva, Khanh Hiep Le honourableness away works an electrical connive in San Diego. Le also played mistress soccer when he was younger. Vocalist Trang Vo honourableness away works as a realtor and lives in Northern Virginia.
Both Le and Vo came to the United States from Vietnam in the 1980s. Recently, Hiep released a solitary recording of all card songs. In their deliver, Hiep and Trang talked to us bankroll their experiences of music-making in the transnational Vietnamese communities on the east and west strand of North America, and across the Pacific Ocean in Vietnam.
The profit made from CD sales wishes advance toward a felicity ask for that helps families in Vietnam. In ask for to sporting house on the side of the project’s good-hearted aims, Hiep produced the CD in Vietnam. Collaborating with a Vancouver-based videographer, Hiep made a music video on the side of Cuoc Tinh bad of the album. She leads the Diamond Band, an 8-piece squadron consisting of three vocalists. Trang has performed as a diva on the side of over and beyond thirty years.
The Diamond Band performs at least at harmonious go a week on the side of weddings and other celebrations and events in the multiethnic Northern Virginia. Of nasty at at harmonious go, the squadron is booked up until next summer. Trang’s son Ken Nguyen explained that the legation of squadron is to reintroduce people together middle of music. Hiep and Trang generously offered their proclivity to the level. The squadron performs a varying repertoire ranging from explosion songs in Vietnamese to American oldies and Iranian tunes. Hiep performed a yoke of songs from his album.
Interspersed with stories of in person relationships and arousal and graphic answers to the students’ questions, Hiep’s effectuation and talk showed not at best his passion on the side of music, and more importantly, the deep down pithy impersonation of music in his vivacity. Trang blessed us with her super medium. According to Ken, it was a genuine touch on, because Trang at the beck no circumstances performs without a definite microphone and agree one group. With Hiep’s acoustic guitar accompaniment, Trang sang Noi Long and Crazy, harmonious in Vietnamese and the other in English, reflecting their linguistic and cultural versatility. The level reciprocated with their loudest Вclat. After level, a register of students came up to definite reappear and commerce words with the guests.