Huong Tram: 'I entered life too early, sometimes I feel tired'

Departed for the US in mid-2019,Melaleucadisappeared from the Vietnamese music market. In the US, she accepted to perform at some small events to earn money to cover her living expenses and occasionally filmed singing videos at the studio.

During her time abroad, the female singer said she always missed home and wished to reunite with her family on Tet.

"Never perform on New Year's Eve"

Speaking from the US, Huong Tram said she misses home very much. The 25-year-old singer said: "I miss my parents and wish to return home to prepare Tet meals and prepare food for my family."

Huong Tram said she longs to go home and go shopping for Tet with her parents.

She shared more memorable experiences about Tet in the past, especially the story of "jumping the train" from Vinh (Nghe An) to Hanoi to visit her brother when he was a child.

"When I was little, I often took the train to Hanoi to visit my brother who was studying at the National Academy of Music. I really wanted to go to singing school, but my parents didn't agree, so I could only try to study hard and then take the train during the summer vacation to visit him.

Usually I go with my mother, but one time I went on the day before Tet. Because I was too stubborn and loved singing, I wanted to go see my older brothers and sisters practice singing, so I took the train to visit him. On that train, I heard stories about peach blossoms, about celebrating Tet... Those are stories that have appeared in my life," Huong Tram recounted.

Looking back at previous Tet seasons in Vietnam, the owner of the hitRain Sistersaid: "I never perform on New Year's Eve, no matter what happens. It's not that I don't want to perform for the audience, but I always spend New Year's Eve with my parents. The feeling of preparing Tet dishes with my parents, burning incense for my grandparents... is a feeling that only happens once a year."

"When watching my colleagues perform on TV on New Year's Eve, I often secretly looked at my parents and felt like they were the happiest audience, because my whole family was gathered together," Huong Tram recalled.

While in Vietnam, The Voice 2012 Champion always refused to perform on New Year's Eve to go home with his parents.

New to Vietnam in 2022

Last Tet, Huong Tram secretly returned home to surprise her family. She affirmed that there is nothing happier than being with her parents during the last days of the year.

However, this year's Lunar New Year, the singer born in 1995 cannot return due to the Covid-19 epidemic.

"First, it's too difficult to travel. Second, let's say I can take about 20 days off between my studies and work in the US, but when I return to Vietnam, I have to quarantine for 14 days. But if there is a patient who tests positive on the flight, the quarantine can be longer. Therefore, I asked my parents and siblings for permission not to return home this Tet," Huong Tram shared.

Huong Tram said she plans to return to artistic activities in 2022.

"In my heart and on my steps in this new land, I have never forgotten my homesickness and my audience. Even though I am alone here, during Tet I will try to buy enough banh chung and banh tet, try not to cry and encourage myself that when I go through the difficult times, I will return to everyone," she added.

Huong Tram said she has no plans to finish her course and return to Vietnam in 2021. "The time to study and live in the US will last about 3 years, maybe I won't be able to return until 2022," the singer said.

"I entered life too early, I couldn't imagine the complexities and injustices... so there were times when I felt frustrated and tired," Huong Tram confided when looking back on her journey of making art and learning to grow up in the past.

"This difficult time, independent life and loneliness have taught me many things. It is a lesson of maturity that I have to take on myself, no one can learn it for me. I don't know about others, but for me, home is where my parents are. It is the only home in my subconscious, the place I must definitely return to," she confided.