Lam Phương

Lam Phuong died on December 22, 2020 following a battle of heart failure and a stroke in Fountain Valley, California.

In 1995, Lam Phuong returned to the US and married another woman. In early 1999, he suffered a stroke and hemiplegia. In this time, he met many difficulties but also received countless emotions. From the fact that the younger sister left the French food store to fly to the US to take care of him, it was about a music lover from Australia buying him a house and calling him every day to talk. She even went to the place, threw the wheelchair away to make him go on his own. Those feelings helped Lam Phuong musician gradually recover, however, it could not be the same.

On the morning of April 30, 1975, he and his family boarded the Truong Xuan ship for refuge and could not bring any assets with them. Later, he was transferred to Virginia, USA, then he moved back to Texas, and then California. In order to have money to support his wife and children, Lam Phuong had to do all kinds of jobs, from cleaning the floor, cleaning up Sears, to hard work like sharpening, but reserving his lifestyle; it all came downhill in his later years as he faced many struggles.

While in Vietnam, musician Lam Phuong has a huge asset in the bank. However, on the morning of April 30, 1975, he and his family boarded the Truong Xuan ship for refugees but could not carry any assets as well as many others, leaving with empty hands. When on the deck he wrote the article Destiny ship with the song "When you see the road is far away, now the way back to the country is a thousand times farther away". When he came to the United States, he wrote the Lost version with the song "Da dark" after leaving the hometown to be darker, leaving his homeland when he changed his life ".

By the 1960s, Lam Phuong wrote many famous songs and gave him huge financial benefits. At that time, the salary of an army colonel who both paid about 50,000 ARVN coins, the salary of a director also reached that level while musician Lam Phuong once went to Dalat to perform arts, sat on the boarding house looked down into the valley and he wrote the article Sad City and sold it for 12 million VND. In addition, there are many other versions, such as the helpless, charming life ... that makes him a great asset.

In 1958, Lam Phuong joined the Army of the Republic of Vietnam. Returning to the civil society for a while, the order was re-enlisted, joining the Bao An entertainment group. After the delegation disbanded, he joined the Hoa Tinh Thuong performance and eventually the Central Arts and Culture Group until Saigon collapsed.

At the age of 15, he began to compose the afternoon version, but it was not until 1954 that he became famous with two articles of Poor Life and the Great Journey. Lam Phuong's music in the 1950s was primarily a feeling of emigration in 1954, including songs such as the Great Boat Trip, Late Forest Music, the Second Reunion, The Beautiful Sunny in the South; talk about the army of the Republic of Vietnam such as the letter of the mind, the love of soldiers and the way of the army.

Lam Phương, real name Lâm Đình Phùng (March 20, 1937 – December 22, 2020), was a popular Vietnamese songwriter.