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Signature style: Baritone Quang Tho will feature on Music Road this Sunday. — File Photo |
HA NOI — The story of Quang Tho, a miner-turned-singer, will be narrated by the artist himself in a television show entitled Music Road this Sunday at the Cultural&Friendship Palace in Ha Noi.
Entitled From Miner to People's Artist, the show will portray the life of the singer from his days as a miner to the present.
During his 40 years of singing, the baritone has created his own style with songs such as Song Lo (The Lo River), Huong Ve Ha Noi (Towards Ha Noi) and Toi La Nguoi Tho Mo (I'm a Miner) which all require a strong voice.
Tho will open the show with Toi La Nguoi Tho Mo, a composition by veteran musician Hoang Van, accompanied by two young singers and a chorus.
Music Road will include songs which Tho performed as a miner, a soldier, an artist and a teacher.
Born in 1948 in Quang Ninh Province, Tho started singing when he was very young. He worked as a coal miner until 1972 and he says that singing in mines and at work are memories he will never forget.
From mine to battle in two years, Tho's singing provided great encouragement to soldiers during the war.
He graduated from the Viet Nam Academy of Music (VNAM) in 1980, and went on to become a regular at the Viet Nam Song and Dance Theatre. He won prizes at national and regional festivals such as the Pyongyang Music Festival in 1989 and 1993 and in Mongolia in 1987.
Having appeared on stage for seven years as a lead singer, Tho decided to focus on teaching and took up a position at VNAM in 1986. He was awarded the title of People's Artist in 2001.
The show will review different parts of the singer's life and will be a chance for him to perform with his colleagues Doan Tan, Duong Minh Duc and his former students Tung Duong and Khanh Linh. — VNS