Real Name: Nguyen Thi Huong Thuy

Singer Name: Huong Thuy

Birthdate: August 27th, 1982

Birth place: Long Ho, Vinh Long<

Siblings: 2 older brothers and one younger brother

Education: From grade 1 to grade 12 then she attended school in Vinh Long then after she graduated she went to Saigon to attended Truong Kich Nghe San Khau Hai Cai Luong 2

Discovered talent: Since she was young she have always performed in school and friends and teachers encourage her to pursue her dream.

Embarrassing moment: First time she went to Toronto for show, she was stop at the Airport because when the officer asked her a few questions and she was having trouble answered it and some how that led the officer to ask her to identify the terrorist which she didn’t who they are so she said she know them. Oh boy, she was so close to get in trouble but the officer realized she wasn’t fluent in English so they called the phone number on her invitation letter from the host. Lucky her.

Sad moment: When she first started to sing in Vietnam, she was poor so she didn’t have a lot of outfitted to change so one of the audience came up to her and asked how come she always wear the same thing. She was sad and depresses and after that time she never accept to go perform at that place any more. She still remember it quite well because she doesn’t want to forget how’s poor she was compare to how’s her life have shifted since she got an opportunity to migrated to the States.

Funny moment: She wasn’t allows to on live show when she was young so she always sneaked out to go to show. One day after the show she went home and got punished which ruin her pants.

Fav season: Spring and Fall

Fav music: Cai Luong, of course but she always enjoy Classical music

Fav celebrities: Thanh Nga (she owned a lot of movies),Ut Bach Lan, Bach Tuyet

Fav Food: Taco Bell, and Canh Mong Toi

How to get to Thúy Nga: friends introduced her while she was in Vietnam and she had to do a lot of recording to show different sides of her voice. It was a lot of work but she’s happy as she working for them now.

First solo: Thoung Nho Cau Hai

Who is her next duet partner: Quang Lê (on her cd), she would love to sing with any one.
Medals: Gold for Bông Lúa Vàng Award, Silver

Not being a singer: She said she would probably being marriage to some one already if she didn’t go to Saigon to pursue her dream. She said besides singing she doesn’t know what to do. She only studied singing so she has no other skill at this point.

Fav. Colors: Yellow, Purple, and White, she’s susperticous so she believe that Yellow which means Gold in Vietnamese, which combined with her name to bring her luck. Purple is her favorite of all time. But she love to wear white color cloths.

For now she having a contract with Thúy Nga so every thing she perform have to be agree by both her and Thúy Nga. She would love to perform Cai Luong since that’s what she like. She does perform it at live show.

She loves the audiences from both North America and Viet- Nam but she would prefer North America audience since they are more polite and nice. In Viet Nam if the singer screw up then the audience react to it badly sometimes rude.
Height: Close to 5’6

What does she like in a person: Honest, outgoing, funny
What does she hate in a person: Fake

Location: Anaheim, CA

Thanks to chi Helen and Victor for the nice interview of chi Huong Thuy!