Quoc Huong
1 record in the archive · 1966
About the artist
Quoc Huong (1915-1984), born in Kien Thai commune, Kim Son district, Ninh Binh province, Vietnam, was a leading first-generation voice of Vietnamese revolutionary music. He began performing at 17, joined Viet Minh cultural-propaganda and military entertainment work during the First Indochina War, studied at the Budapest Conservatory from 1954, then worked at the Vietnamese Musical Theatre and, after 1975, with the Bong Sen troupe in Ho Chi Minh City. Named People's Artist (NSND) in 1984, the year he died of cancer. [Source: hopampro.com; bcdcnt.net]