These days, from Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City to Hue... on stages, halls, tea rooms... all resonate with the immortal melodies of musician Trinh Cong Son. The musician's songs are always deeply ingrained in the hearts of fans and will last forever.
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This shows that musician Trinh Cong Son with his immortal songs still lives with time, living in the hearts of music lovers. With more than 600 songs, both lyrics and music, musician Trinh Cong Son has left us with a massive musical heritage of human life, love and the desire for peace.
Musician Trinh Cong Son's songs always have a strong and sustainable spread thanks to the unique combination of poetic lyrics, melodies with contemporary folk influences, and profound human philosophy. With these characteristic elements, the songs have created a unique style capable of touching the depths of the listener's soul. Trinh music is not only music, but also heartfelt feelings, voices of love, voices of human fate.
Not only in Vietnam, Trinh music is also loved and admired in many countries around the world. Mr. Nguyen Trung Truc - representative of Trinh Cong Son's family said that on April 18, the Vietnamese Embassy in Singapore will organize a music program called "Joining Hands" to exchange culture between the two countries, introduce and spread Trinh music in this island nation.
According to the electronic information page of the Department of Performing Arts (Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism), about 2 million music tapes and discs of musician Trinh Cong Son have been sold in Japan. Many famous Japanese singers have sung Trinh Cong Son's songs.
Perhaps Japanese people are fascinated by Trinh Cong Son's music because Trinh's music is imbued with Asian culture and philosophy. Trinh Cong Son's legacy is also regularly presented at the Asian Cultural Center in Korea. Trinh Cong Son is also the first Vietnamese person to be honored by Google.
In the book "Trinh Cong Son and Bob Dylan Essays on Songwriting, Love, War and Religion", author Jon C. Schafer - Professor of Applied Linguistics and Comparative Literature at Humboldt University, California (USA) used the cultural comparison method to decipher the similarities and differences in personal biographies, artistic biographies, creative personalities, intellectual roles of two great talents between Trinh Cong Son and Bob Dylan - the first singer and musician in the world to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature (2016) shows that Trinh Cong Son's people and music have been placed next to big names in the world.
Musician Trinh Cong Son is a big name in Vietnamese new music. On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Liberation of the South and the reunification of the country recently, musician Trinh Cong Son was also selected and honored by Ho Chi Minh City as one of the typical artists of the past 50 years.
Infiltrating young people
In 2019, Van Lang University named its hall Trinh Cong Son Hall with the design of a stage to have the opportunity for students to sing Trinh music. This also met the wishes of musician Trinh Cong Son's family to continue the spirit of Trinh Cong Son in the university lecture hall so that Trinh music could spread among students.
Let's love Jazz" is a music project that is refreshed and spreads the songs of musician Trinh Cong Son through arrangements in Jazz, Fusion and Acoustic styles, combined with translated into English, Japanese and Korean. The project is welcomed and creates a creative playground for many young Jazz artists, talented voices from Vietnam and internationally, aiming for a young, open and artistic-loving, deep-hearted audience, hoping to become a cultural and musical bridge between Vietnam and the world.
Hanoi Blues Note founder - Quynh Pham, one of the rare and persistent Jazz voices in Hanoi for the past 25 years, shared the reason for the project's birth: "In the past decade, "renovating" Trinh music has become an inspiring underground flow in Vietnamese music life, especially for young people.
However, most of it is still just individual experiments, or in other words, beautiful notes... but not yet a long-term arrangement. No one has really drawn a meticulous, methodical and connected musical journey to bring Trinh music closer to the new generation and to the world".
Let's love Jazz" was born to build that connection journey with a long-term plan, lasting from October 2025 to the end of 2028. Every week, many cafes, especially tea rooms, always organize performances of Trinh Cong Son songs, attracting many young amateur singers and young Trinh music lovers. Trinh music not only lives with time thanks to its deep penetration into people's hearts, but it is also renewed, deepened and spread among young people.
