Cai luong artist Ngoc Huyen is licensed to return home to perform.

Cai luong artist will have his first performance in Ho Chi Minh City after nearly 15 years of settling in the US.

Artist Ngoc Huyen's representative said she has just been granted permission to perform in a music night called Hundred memories, thousand loves,will take place on October 20 at a tea room. In addition to performing, she also talked about her life and work in the US recently.

Ngoc Huyen (right) and Phuong Hong Thuy, Thanh Hang in November 2016 in Ho Chi Minh City.

"I am very happy because I have waited many years to have a private concert to meet the audience at home," Ngoc Huyen confided. She and her team are preparing a list of songs including modern and traditional music. Ngoc Huyen plans to perform songs such as Hoa no ve dem, Chiec ao ba ba, Tram nho ngan thuong,Confession at Night, Fate, The Old Road You Walked, The Ao Ba Ba, Midnight Rain, Poverty...The organizer invested in a separate traditional music orchestra for the artists.

* Ngoc Huyen sings reformed opera with Kim Tu Long and Thoai My

In 2016, Ngoc Huyen was granted permission to return to the country to be a judge in the first season of the game show Road to Traditional Opera. She, along with Meritorious Artist Kim Tu Long and Thoai My, searched for and trained talented contestants in the fields of traditional opera and reformed opera. In the program, Ngoc Huyen impressed with her close professional comments and witty conversations. However, before the final round, the artist and her student Ngoc Quyen withdrew due to disagreements in ideas for staging the performance. In the second season of this game show, Meritorious Artist Thanh Hang replaced Ngoc Huyen.

Artist Ngoc Huyen's full name is Vu Ha Ngoc Huyen, born in 1970 in Saigon. She started singing at the age of 14 and has many achievements such as two gold medals at the national professional performance festival (1990, 2000), Tran Huu Trang gold medal (1995-1996), Most favorite actress of the Mai Vang award (1995-1997, 2002)... In 2001, she was awarded the title of Meritorious Artist.

In 2002, after performing in the US, Ngoc Huyen stayed and got married. She switched to singing modern music, traditional music, and released DVDs overseas. In 2005, Ngoc Huyen was involved in a scandal when she performed inappropriately overseas.

According to VNE