LOLITA MY CHAU

Monday - 20/08/2018 23:52

MCMC - “My unique ability is to sing really low, with a deep tone,” My Chau said.

She has had singing talent even at a young age, but it was in modern ballads instead of traditional music, which is what Vong Co is all about. Even to this day, she still prefers pop music. My Chau recalls when she was a young girl in the countryside, every time she turned on the radio she always heard Thanh Huong, a well-known singer at the time, sing. The first two songs that My Chau learned at the beginning of her career were Cô Bán Đèn Hoa Giấy (The Girl Who Sells the Paper Lanterns) and Tâm Sự Cô Gái Mù (The Innermost Feeling of a Blind Girl), which, coincidentally, were the same songs that Thanh Huong sang on the radio long ago. But when My Chau became a singer herself, she most admired actress Ut Bach Lan, who was also a famous singer.

As a young girl, My Chau would listen and obey her mom’s orders without having the faintest idea of what Cai Luong was all about or the difficult road ahead. “I was fortunate enough to be born with traits from which I can distinguish right from wrong. At the beginning of my career, I was able to figure out the right path. I remember the very first time I went to a recording studio to have my voice tested, they told me to go home and imitate the voice of a famous actress at the time. I just smiled with disgust and promptly left the studio. Luckily, when I joined the Asia recording company, no one had asked me to do the same thing; otherwise, there would not have been a My Chau as you know today.” She smiled happily when recalling the incident and one could sense the pride in her voice. How could she not be so proud when she was considered one of the finest actresses of all times? And apparently, keeping her own unique style many years ago at the recording studio, and not imitating someone else’s voice, turned out to be her greatest asset later on.

My Chau’s voice was so unusual for a female singer in such a way that she could sing low and deep tunes with ease, which is very rare among female singers, usually only male singers have this capability. She also enhanced her voice through creativity and proper techniques to make it even more mellow and soothing to the audiences. She said, “I realize my voice is very low and deep, which is quite unusual, so I use it to my great advantage. I have discovered some wonderful sounds and range of emotions at these really low, low notes. Since then, whenever I sing the first verse of a Vong Co song (a complete song contains six verses), I use two “huyen” (falling tone), or one “huyen” and one “nang” (falling-glottalized tone) accents. These low-toned accents really accentuate my unusual voice. However, I could not have accomplished so much if it were not for the talented team of song-writers such as Vien Chau, Loan Thao, and Trong Nguyen who took each singer’s unique voice into consideration and tailored the songs just for that particular singer. As a result, both the songs and singers could showcase their best and leave a lasting impression on their listeners."

My Chau’s voice was once called an “ethereal voice” because of its full range of emotions such as sorrow, sadness, etc. It is so unique that so far, no other singers have ever been able to duplicate it. She is very skillful at singing Vong Co, but the audiences remember her the most through her acting in Cai Luong plays such as Tieu Anh Phung, Trinh Nu Lau Xanh, etc.

My Chau explained, “No singers can start their singing career and be successful all by themselves without learning the skills from their idols or experienced performers. I myself learned so much from my older colleagues: Thanh Huong, Ut Bach Lan, Thanh Nga and, especially, Minh Canh who really took the time to teach and train me. However, no matter how much you learned and how much training you got, it would all become useless unless you have one very important quality – a good singing voice, and know how to take good care of your voice.”

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