Happy like singer Le Quyen

Late Shining Star

Le Quyen did not "become a star overnight". She started her career by singing covers of Blue Wave hits and foreign songs with Vietnamese lyrics at coffee shops and tea rooms.

Before the 2010 milestone, she left her mark with many hits such as:Dreams are real, Please answer me, Stop dreaming, If that day, Bitter... The articlesLike a dream, Lonely nightDuets with Tuan Hung are also very popular.

Despite having many hits, Le Quyen only stops at asserting her position in the profession, not being ranked with contemporary stars.

The reason is, she sings pop music not bad, but experts and audiences both feel that she is not really in harmony. On the other hand, she shines then disappears, her series of sporadic, broken successes is not enough to bring the female singer to a higher position.

Le Quyen's life and career turned a new page when she moved to the South and devoted herself to yellow music. In 2010, it was not an exaggeration to say that Le Quyen's style of singing yellow music was pioneering and unique.

She has a mezzo-soprano voice, bright, sharp, with a characteristic slight hoarseness, and an average-weak but sufficient vocal technical foundation.

At that time, the statement "Le Quyen 'elegantly' made yellow music" caused fierce controversy among generations and audience segments. The controversy lasted for many years, contributing to spreading her name from within the country to overseas.

Ignoring the controversies, the pioneering and unique element in the way Le Quyen sings is that she is completely separate from the generation of overseas Vietnamese folk singers, not following the stereotypes of the domestic folk singers, and not being as clichéd and deviant as the young singers who call for "renewal" of Vietnamese folk music.

Looking at the 2010s in general, we can see that Le Quyen had a smart and reasonable strategy to develop her career.

Best-selling products that become brands like albumsOld love songlive concertQ Showexploited in a series, helping Le Quyen's name maintain its popularity. In particular, the frequent organization of live shows partly shows that this is a "profitable" activity.

Having succeeded with golden music, she continued to develop anthology models like: Le Quyen sings Lam Phuong, Le Quyen sings Vu Thanh An... low cost, low risk and high profit.

Next, Le Quyen expanded her "territory" to the closest genres: pre-war, lyrical, typically the albumTimeline, Trinh Cong Son theme album.

At the same time, Le Quyen participated in a number of reality shows - very useful in increasing recognition, especially during the golden music period (2014 - 2017).

10 years after the 2010 milestone, Le Quyen has risen strongly in the rankings. The rare failures, if any, are the times she tried to return to light music, young music in album style.Unending love.

Happy like Le Quyen

In recent years, the name Le Quyen often appears in scandals outside of music.

When taking the examBeautiful lady riding the wind and cutting wavesIn 2023, Le Quyen caused controversy throughout the show, from constantly using social media to express her anger about a colleague, many times winning unconvincingly to "overdoing it" with her boyfriend - host Lam Bao Chau.

Her nonchalant sharing of all her negative emotions on social media made the image of the contest ugly, affected the common efforts of many other artists; caused public uproar, and added more scandal to showbiz.

Le Quyen is also a Vietnamese artist who likes to show off her assets, often arguing with netizens with harsh and sometimes vulgar language.

As a celebrity, Le Quyen’s behavior has a certain influence on the crowd and is capable of creating public opinion. Therefore, her uncivilized use of social networks violates the responsibility of a celebrity to the community.

It is worth mentioning that after the controversy, Le Quyen still maintains her position in the profession.

Currently, she is in class A, with an average salary of around class A - A+. If she appears in a show with commercial elements, the number can go up to class S-.

Compared to her contemporaries or former rivals, Le Quyen is somewhat better. She is also admired for her successful career, solid assets and a happy personal life with her younger boyfriend.

While most artists are extremely careful in their behavior and speech to maintain their image, Le Quyen is a rare case that shows her true self in behavior and lifestyle without much affecting her current position.

Explaining this, it is not difficult to see that the group of young audiences who are always on social networks and have the power to boycott are not the audience that Le Quyen is serving.

The controversies Le Quyen has caused are only at an average level, not serious violations of ethics or the law; she can be criticized but not to the point of boycotting.

However, Le Quyen should be more aware of the limits of behavior. There are many cases where artists have ruined their careers in ways that cannot be explained by conventional rules.

In some obvious cases, artists get caught up in scandals and then slide to rock bottom in their careers even though their actions do not match the consequences they receive.