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Renowned International and Local Artists to Participate in Hue International Music Week.

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The Hue International Music Week 2023 titled “Four Seasons Melody” will take place from December 8 to 12 at Ngo Mon Gate (Noon Gate) in the ancient capital of Hue, VOV citied the organizers of the Hue Festival 2023. The event is expected to see the participation of several renowned names in international contemporary music scene, including pop stars from the Wallonia-Bruxelles delegation of Belgium, Andrienne Mack-Davis and DJ Julian Heughan, aka 32french, from the US, French songwriter and singer Sébastien Tellier and electro-pop singer and songwriter Malik Djoudi, as well as Korean jazz singer Young Joo Song. In which, as American Art Envoys, Andrienne Mack-Davis and 32french will also be performing at the US – Vietnam Friendship Festival, and the BridgeFest Music Festival 2023. American Art Envoys, Andrienne Mack-Davis and 32french will also be performing at the US – Vietnam Friendship Festival, and the BridgeFest Music Festival 2023. Furthermore, popular Vietnamese ...

Vietnamese-French opera singer takes pride in wearing ‘ao dai’

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Born in Vietnam, Badillo was adopted and grew up in France. She thought that she was very ‘French’ before she returned to Vietnam for the first time. After three times of coming back to her homeland, she met her biological mother and felt that she belongs to Vietnam, especially when she dons ao dai . Her Vietnamese name is Bao Ngoc. Badillo recounted that she was adopted by a married couple who could not have a child when she was five months old. The couple traveled to Vietnam to pursue dentistry when they decided to adopt a child. Her biological mother could not afford to raise her, thereby sending her to a local orphanage in Ho Chi Minh City. “I smiled at my adoptive mother when I first met her, so she was so touched,” she said, adding that her mother told her that story. “I knew that I was an adopted child when I was young. My parents often told me about Vietnam, took me to a Vietnamese restaurant each week, and allowed me to join Vietnamese festivals such as Tet in France.” ...