"Street, Street" - the first love of Miss Bong Hong Nhung

The street here is Hanoi, Bong - none other than Hong Nhung. In the first days of winter, the female singer will return to sing about the street and about Bong.

It's been almost a month since winter started, but Hanoi still has many days of "melting fat" like midsummer. Just in time for the day "Bong" Hong Nhung came from Ho Chi Minh City to practice for the show Pho a pho oi... Bong a Bong oi, the weather turned cold.

"People from Hanoi who have gone far away are very afraid of winter, especially in our time, when winter was cold without heaters like now. We often poured hot water into a glass bottle, put it in a blanket, then crawled in and rubbed our feet on that bottle. Hanoi's winter was miserable back then, but it was the season that people remember the most. Because just like in life, songs or novels, winter has something that cuts deep into the heart and multiplies the emotions." Bong said that the program taking place in winter was just a coincidence, unintentional. But Hanoi's winter really pampered Bong when it brought the cold back at the right time, contributing to the resonance of emotions. Consider it a favorable location and favorable time.

Hong Nhung during band practice on December 3.

The singer shared that she has spent 18 years of her life in Hanoi. "I live in an old French house on Dien Bien Phu Street, with a large iron gate, a garden with longan and apple trees, a wide sidewalk with two rows of old dracontomelon trees that turn white every season. Leaving Dien Bien Phu is Cao Ba Quat Street full of milk flowers. I was lucky to be born among all the most beautiful things of Hanoi, so my soul was embraced to become an artist, a very Hanoian person."

Hong Nhung remembers growing up with a group of friends on the street, each with a fake name: Bong, Ly, Bu, Khec... with the sessions of digging holes to catch crickets and cicadas. Also from that street, the 16, 17 year old girl had her first innocent feelings for a boy. "At that time, I was too young to say many things like now. There weren't many movies to watch, so I didn't realize my first feelings came. I just waited for that person. That person was a musician, I was a singer, we sang together. It wasn't until I was 18 that we confessed."

The song Pho a pho oi written for Hong Nhung will be performed by her for the first time on stage, telling about that early time. "Pho oi do nho/ On the small attic/ Where I dreamed of my first love". But that love did not come true, so Hong Nhung sang: "Leaving the old love/ Writing each other's names with autumn" or "Only carrying memories/ The old song I sang for my friends". Back then, with a guitar, her greatest joy was every time she sat in a circle and sang together. The beautiful memories made the female singer carry the question: "Pho oi do nho/ Here there was a girl named a flower". "That flower is me", Hong Nhung said.

Hong Nhung is youthful at the age of 45.

But Hong Nhung does not only live in the past. She shares Pho a pho oi and Bong a Bong oi like two sides of a couplet. There is the past - the present. There is Bong yesterday - Bong today. The fragments of memory are the capital for Hong Nhung to carry with her in the present. "Thank you to the past, that legacy has given me today. I am rich because of those things."

Oh Street, Oh Street... Oh Bong, Oh Bong will be a five-part story, interwoven between the story of the street - the homeland, the origin - and the person Bong. Born in the street, Bong grew up with the first loves and emotions of life. That love gradually opened up to the homeland, the country. Even greater is the love for humanity, in which Hong Nhung wants to convey the message of protecting rhinos, saving animals facing the risk of extinction. Finally, there is Bong's philosophical person - through the journey of life, she has absorbed philosophies and contemplations to realize that life is inherently sadder than happy, but people should only think about happy things to live.

The concert took place on December 5. Since December 3, the female singer and her band have been practicing. Hong Nhung braided her hair, dressed like a schoolgirl, and danced in the practice room. She showed off a small silver suitcase containing food for the whole day, and everyone joked that Hong Nhung brought the kitchen with her. At noon, she ate a sandwich from the suitcase and then put a chair to rest in the corner of the room, waiting for the afternoon practice. Hong Nhung shared that she was also very nervous because it had been three years since she returned to do a program in Hanoi. She promised to bring the audience a work of art, not just a music show, and she would leave her feelings to the audience./.

According to VnExpress