1 year ago, Phuong My Chi won the Champion title of Em xinh say hi season 1. After that, the female singer won third place overall at the international music program Sing! Asia 2025.
During this time, she continuously caused a fever when bringing Vietnamese music to the international arena, with a series of songs "Bong Phu Hoa", "Buon Trang", "Lac Troi", "Tuy Am"... all being strongly spread by the audience.
Throughout 13 years of artistic activity, Phuong My Chi's works revolve around love for the homeland, the bond between people, the beauty of friendship, love, family affection, or are inspired by literary works.
Until the song "Paradise with Love" just released, Phuong My Chi for the first time placed love between couples in the center of an official music product.
This is also a shift in the way the female singer approaches the music story: from personal vibrations, she expands into love for her homeland, roots and people who are persistently preserving traditional artistic values in the face of the changes of the times.
Phuong My Chi said: "This is also the first time in my artistic journey that Chi has made love become an important part of the music story.
When she grew up, Chi realized that love is not just temporary vibrations but also understanding, companionship and things she is willing to do for her loved one. Chi wants to express a greater love for Vietnamese culture through a personal love story.
The song "Paradise with Love" has a Pop color, inspired by Khmer Southern music material.
The music part is undertaken by DTAP, with the process of researching and processing from lyrics, melodies to arrangements. Some characteristic tones, along with boat lute and square Kôông gongs, are included in the arrangement.
Images in the MV recreate childhood activities, dance practice sessions in the village, where art exists as a part of community activities.
Many Khmer cultural images of Southern Vietnam appear throughout the work, from Rom Vong and Robam dances, wedding rituals, images of giant masks to the Khmer pagoda space and palm fields.
Notably, the MV recreates the red thread binding ritual in the wedding ceremony, with the participation of Achar Son Tich, and also has professional advisors on culture and rituals.
Professional consultation is also carried out in the music, visual arts and traditional art forms section. Advisors from Tra Vinh University have supported the crew with patterns, costumes, dance, musical instruments, sound and life of the Khmer community in the South; Phuong My Chi also directly learned traditional dances to serve the MV implementation process.
In which, porcelain flowers become a xuyên suốt symbol, from the first vibrations of life to when the character is old, contributing to expanding the love story from youth to lifelong commitment.
For Phuong My Chi, the song marks her maturity - from a child singer to an artist attached to traditional culture.
This change shows that the female singer is expanding her approach to traditional materials: Not only recreating familiar cultural values but also putting them into contemporary stories.
