Vu Cat Tuong: 'I want both men and women to be able to love me'

The singer of "Yesterday's Girl" believes that her music is not limited by age, gender, space and time.

- You just successfully organized a music night to celebrate your 25th birthday. How did the program leave an impression on you?

- I still watch the recording of the show over and over again. I have never experienced that atmosphere and feeling before. The stage was big with over 3,000 people but everyone was able to connect with each other and connect with my music.

The concert marked my four-year artistic journey. It wasn’t a long journey, but as people around me said, I grew up very quickly.The most meaningful thing to me after four years is that I found good people, my vision is more open.

Vu Cat Tuong at the concert celebrating her 25th birthday on October 14.

- What changes have you seen in your maturity?

- I am no longer a beginner in life, afraid of everything, always vulnerable to being bullied.Over the past four years, I have had a hard time judging people. Many times I thought that person would be with me, but in the end, they hurt me. My inexperience pushed me into extreme loneliness, making me wonder why there was no one in the world that I could trust.

Up to now, the most important thing I have done is to lift myself up and regain faith in the good things in people and life.

Showbiz is a miniature society, a place where the most fierce things gather, challenging a person's courage and faith. The more I am challenged, the stronger I become. The more I am thrown into a bad place, the more I have to believe in goodness. There are still many good things in this life.

- Who helps you in difficult times?

- The audience is the biggest source of support for me. When I stumble and get cheated, reading the audience's comments, I think: "Ah, people out there still love me."

I also have a lover who is always by my side. We have been together for three years. However, I do not let my lover see that I always fail, I also have to keep my self-respect. Therefore, I often solve my own difficulties. I do not like to complain when I am with my lover.

- The audience used to enjoy it when you wore a dress on stage, even though you are usually associated with the tomboy style. Why don't you change to a more feminine image to please the audience?

-I wore that dress because I liked it. However, I didn't want to be predictable, I wanted the audience to be curious about me.Furthermore, my point of view in music is that there is no limit to age, gender, space and time. That will become more and more obvious from the way I dress to the way I compose and sing. I want both men and women to love me, and young and old to enjoy my music.

My fashion and music style are not influenced by anyone but by my own preferences and exploration. Maybe my "floating" way of singing is influenced by teachers like Thanh Bui and Phuong Uyen, but after a few months of studying, I discovered myself and shaped my own style.

The singer believes that in every person there is male strength and female weakness to some extent.

- Leslie Cheung - the late legendary Hong Kong artist - once believed: "MAn artist reaches the highest level when he can blend male and female into one. Art itself has no gender." What do you think about this?

-I agree with that point of view. In every person there is always a certain strength of men and a certain weakness of women. No one can affirm that he never cries, that he is always strong.

I don't try to be a certain type of person, I don't try to be flawless, without pain. I want to be myself, to express my emotions. ButThe soul has no gender, no nationality. Pain or happiness has no gender, only how the heart feels it.

*MV "A few minutes ago" by Vu Cat Tuong

- When did your gender thinking appear?

- It started when I cut my hair in 2013. After cutting my hair, I felt that short or long hair, dresses or suits became too normal. Other people's comments "this girl is too masculine, this girl is beautiful or ugly" no longer affected me. For me,beauty is from the soul

What I care about is what I can do in life. For example, today I can compose this song, tomorrow I can do something else.

-Who gave you the stage name Cat Tuong - a name that means peace and blessing?

- I named myself. When I was born, my grandmother named me Phuong Tuong. When I was four or five years old, I watched Hoan Chau Cach Cach and saw the interesting phrase "the emperor and the queen are lucky", I liked it so much that I asked to change my name even though I was just a child at that time and didn't understand what "lucky" meant. Later I understood that "lucky" means lucky and good.

My life has been like that, from childhood to adulthood, I choose whatever I like, no one can stop or force me because I am stubborn and willful. Whatever I use, it has to be the thing I like, otherwise I don't use it or use the worst thing.For example, in college, everyone in my class used normal computers, but at the beginning of my freshman year, I told my mom, "I want to buy an Apple computer." She borrowed money to buy it for me.

But I also promised my mother that I would make the most of the gadgets. With the computer, since my second year, I have studied composition and arrangement, and registered for online classes abroad.

My mother saved up and gave me the best things, hiding her hardships for herself. Now that I am an adult, I am aware of my responsibility to my family. As the breadwinner in the family, I want to take care of my family as much as possible. But I do not want to brag about what I have done because it is my duty.

* Vu Cat Tuong sings the soundtrack of the movie "The Girl from Yesterday"

According to VNE