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"content": "\u003cp>It was 1945 in Quảng Bình, the thin north-central neck of Vietnam, and \u003ca href=\"https://apjjf.org/2011/9/5/Geoffrey-Gunn/3483/article.html\">famine ravaged the country\u003c/a>. A newborn baby wailed in a sugarcane field, announcing her arrival with a rawness that would later become her signature. Giving birth indoors was thought to be bad luck, so Nguyễn Thị Tâm — or Tâm — was born outside. A fortuneteller said she would be famous one day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, by adolescence, Tâm didn’t seem destined for traditional greatness — which in Vietnam usually meant academic achievement. Her family moved to Hóc Môn, a district outside the southern capital of Saigon. Here, she failed to enter the prestigious Gia Long Girls’ High School.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Tâm didn’t care; she had music.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By 19, under the stage name Phương Tâm, she shared album covers and marquees with Saigon’s most sought-after singers, musicians and composers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1rDLliHJGc&t=4128s\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Phương Tâm peaked from 1964 to 1966, and then disappeared into obscurity for over 50 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She married a doctor and had three children, living a suburban life in San José. It wasn’t until recently, with the encouragement of her oldest daughter, Hannah Hà, did Phương Tâm at age 77 reclaim her identity as Vietnam’s first rock-and-roll queen.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Growth of a star\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Tâm’s father kept the family’s single radio set on BBC News. So, as an adolescent, Tâm found her musical fix in the cacophony of her village courtyard. It was the late 1950s, and American pop music was beginning to influence Vietnamese tastes — which had previously included folk opera, French jazz and bolero. Tâm lingered by a neighbor’s window listening to songs like Connie Francis’s “Lipstick on your Collar,” and rapidly copied the beats and lyrics she didn’t understand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At 16, Tâm won a singing competition and was accepted into Đoàn Văn nghệ Việt Nam, a program to create live entertainment for military personnel. It was good money, but eventually Tâm ditched the propaganda music — and high school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She found mentors who shared her love of Western music. One well-known musician, Nguyễn Văn Xuân, took her on as a private student. He gave all his best students stage names, so Tâm became “Phương Tâm.” It meant “the direction of the heart.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11908007\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11908007\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54217_Tam-in-ao-dai-band-at-Miss-Viet-Nam-pageant-1965-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1418\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54217_Tam-in-ao-dai-band-at-Miss-Viet-Nam-pageant-1965-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54217_Tam-in-ao-dai-band-at-Miss-Viet-Nam-pageant-1965-qut-800x591.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54217_Tam-in-ao-dai-band-at-Miss-Viet-Nam-pageant-1965-qut-1020x753.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54217_Tam-in-ao-dai-band-at-Miss-Viet-Nam-pageant-1965-qut-160x118.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54217_Tam-in-ao-dai-band-at-Miss-Viet-Nam-pageant-1965-qut-1536x1134.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Miss Vietnam pageant in 1965. Phương Tâm wore traditional áo dài while singing subversive songs. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Nguyễn Ánh 9)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Her name change signaled her rise to fame. Phương Tâm headlined the nightclub circuit, and she collaborated with famed composers and musicians, including \u003ca href=\"https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kh%C3%A1nh_B%C4%83ng\">Khánh Băng, one of the first Vietnamese people to perform with an electric guitar\u003c/a>. The \u003ca href=\"https://vietcetera.com/en/jan-hagenkotter-and-saigon-supersound-volume-1\">major Saigon labels\u003c/a> — Sóng Nhạc, Continental and Việt Nam — recorded her songs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her style of singing wasn’t just “sexy-naive,” a common trope that continues to have appeal in Vietnam today, but also at times was downright loud and raucous. In spite (or because) of the subversive nature of the music she sang, Phương Tâm kept her clothing modest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At night I always wore áo dài, but always wore white or beige, not bright,” says Tâm, sitting in her living room in San José.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The áo dài was the wispy national dress of Vietnam, made famous by pictures of schoolgirls. But Phương Tâm wasn’t your average schoolgirl. In a music review from 1962, \u003ca href=\"https://vietnamlit.org/wiki/index.php?title=Mai_Thao\">famed Vietnamese writer Mai Thảo\u003c/a> wrote in “Kịch Ảnh” (“Drama”) magazine about the simmering power of this modestly dressed teen:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“As she steps from the back and moves toward the microphone with glittering eyes her hands clapping to the beat — a new shape emerges. The figure is now drawn with burning flames, like a green fruit ripening before your eyes.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Phương Tâm, like other performers, would chạy số — which literally translates as “run numbers.” The phrase described the high-speed nightclub runs that were common for performers at the time: 5 p.m. at Tân Sơn Nhất Air Base, 7 p.m. at An Đông, 8 p.m. at \u003ca href=\"http://taybui.blogspot.com/2015/10/nhac-saigon-ban-em-1963.html\">the Capriccio Bar\u003c/a> — then to \u003ca href=\"https://saigoneer.com/saigon-heritage/13814-old-saigon-building-of-the-week-the-glitz-and-glam-of-tu-do-nightclub\">Tự Do\u003c/a>. And so on, every hour, three songs per venue. At midnight, she finished with an hour-long set at the Olympia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11908008\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1853px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11908008\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54222_Phuong-Tam-wearing-pink-Dep-Magazine-cover-qut-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1853\" height=\"2560\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54222_Phuong-Tam-wearing-pink-Dep-Magazine-cover-qut-scaled.jpg 1853w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54222_Phuong-Tam-wearing-pink-Dep-Magazine-cover-qut-800x1105.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54222_Phuong-Tam-wearing-pink-Dep-Magazine-cover-qut-1020x1409.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54222_Phuong-Tam-wearing-pink-Dep-Magazine-cover-qut-160x221.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54222_Phuong-Tam-wearing-pink-Dep-Magazine-cover-qut-1112x1536.jpg 1112w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54222_Phuong-Tam-wearing-pink-Dep-Magazine-cover-qut-1482x2048.jpg 1482w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1853px) 100vw, 1853px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Phương Tâm on the cover of Đẹp magazine \u003ccite>(Courtesy Phương Tâm)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Tâm had an admirer, an officer who followed her from one venue to the next. He loved it when Tâm sang “Tenderly.” The officer told her it reminded him of her “enticing lips.” She kept her distance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>November 1963 signaled a significant change for South Vietnam. The president, Ngô Đình Diệm, was assassinated. The details of the event remain murky, but \u003ca href=\"https://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/pentagon2/pent6.htm\">American involvement and military presence increased.\u003c/a> The nightclubs catered to a growing military clientele. One night that month, Tâm’s admirer brought along a young new military doctor, Hà Xuân Du. There was something different about the young doctor, Tâm recalls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He asked me for my address, and the day after, he came to my house,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They started dating, and “Tenderly” became their song. But Phương Tâm and Du’s marriage almost three years later — between a singer and the son of an elite family — was scandalous. Their parents didn’t come to their wedding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They don’t accept me, but … we were already in love,” says Tâm.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A different life\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In 1966, as quickly as Phương Tâm ascended to fame, she left her singing career — without a goodbye tour or a last interview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tâm followed her husband to \u003ca href=\"https://www.usafpolice.org/danang.html\">Đà Nẵng Air Base, just over 100 miles south of the demilitarized zone\u003c/a> that separated North and South Vietnam. Between 1967 and 1968, the war — and the bombing — intensified. Tâm sheltered with her three children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The rockets would go … the sirens!” recalls Hannah, Tâm’s oldest daughter. “Whenever we would hear the sirens, we would go into the bunker.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hannah remembers hiding for days at a time in that oppressively hot single room with a refrigerator.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the fall of Saigon in 1975, \u003ca href=\"https://media.defense.gov/2012/Aug/23/2001330098/-1/-1/0/Oper%20Frequent%20Wind.pdf\">the family evacuated on a cargo plane.\u003c/a> They eventually arrived in Southern California. There, Tâm found work — mostly random, repetitive piecework for the garment industry. She sewed, but not well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I only knew how to sew in a straight line,” Tâm says with a shrug and an impish laugh. She made $0.10 a garment cutting loose thread. Meanwhile, her husband studied to requalify to practice medicine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’d come home every day and there’d be a burnt pot,” says Tâm. Du would try to boil a pot of water for coffee and get distracted either by studying or watching sports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Life for Tâm revolved around the kids and, by 1980, supporting Du’s successful pediatrics practice in San José.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was always cooking, cleaning, going to work, disciplining us, making sure that we were well behaved,” recalls Hannah of that time in her family’s life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eventually the family acquired the trappings of Vietnamese immigrant success, right down to the white leather couch in the living room. The couple developed strong ties with people in the Vietnamese diaspora, with a special appreciation for music.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When my then-boyfriend — now husband — came to visit my mom for the first time, he had to sing two songs on the karaoke machine: ‘I’ve Got You Under My Skin’ and ‘My Way,'” says Hannah.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her parents graduated beyond simple karaoke, however. Their parties included a who’s who of Vietnamese pre-1975 musicians, including \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nguy%E1%BB%85n_%C3%81nh_9\">Nguyễn Ánh 9, who ‘d once backed Tâm on the guitar in Vietnam\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11908015\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11908015\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/ALBUM-COVER-%E2%80%9CTWIST-SURF-BEGUINE-ROCK-1-USE-THIS.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1942\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/ALBUM-COVER-“TWIST-SURF-BEGUINE-ROCK-1-USE-THIS.png 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/ALBUM-COVER-“TWIST-SURF-BEGUINE-ROCK-1-USE-THIS-800x809.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/ALBUM-COVER-“TWIST-SURF-BEGUINE-ROCK-1-USE-THIS-1020x1032.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/ALBUM-COVER-“TWIST-SURF-BEGUINE-ROCK-1-USE-THIS-160x162.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/ALBUM-COVER-“TWIST-SURF-BEGUINE-ROCK-1-USE-THIS-1519x1536.png 1519w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The album cover for “TWIST SURF BEGUINE ROCK.” Phương Tâm quickly learned and recorded songs in a single session. There were no second takes. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Cường Phạm)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Tâm’s past life as a singer was an open secret. She didn’t deny it — but she stuck to singing other people’s hits, not her own.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When her husband Googled her a few years ago, he found v\u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1408772159206973&ref=sharing\">ideos that purported to feature Phương Tâm\u003c/a>. “‘Oh, my God, what woman is doing this! Look at this! Who ever put this video up and use your name?'” Hannah remembers her father saying. For Du, there was only one Phương Tâm: his wife.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To make things more confusing, there was another singer with a similar name, Phương Hoài Tâm, also in San José. This woman ran a skin care salon while performing on the side.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A new chapter\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>“My mom and my dad were always a couple,” recalls Hannah. “Wherever they went, over to their friend’s house, it was never without the other.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then in 2019, Tâm’s husband Du died after a prolonged illness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vietnamese people often make \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdm.org/voyagetovietnam/altars.html\">an altar in their homes to honor the dead.\u003c/a> Commonly, the altar pictures are static: a face either in a formal pose, or a slightly brighter version of a passport photo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in Tâm’s home, her beloved is holding a microphone, singing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Du’s death was a turning point for Hannah and Tâm. Hannah went searching for more information about her mom’s past life. She stumbled across compilations of Vietnamese wartime rock music, including the most successful album to date, called \u003ca href=\"https://www.sublimefrequencies.com/products/576864-saigon-rock-soul-vietnamese-classic-tracks-1968-1974\">“Saigon Rock and Soul: Vietnamese Classic Tracks 1968-1974.”\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The album attributed one song, “Magical Night,” to Phương Tâm. Hannah couldn’t be sure it was her mom’s voice. And when she showed Tâm the cover — \u003ca href=\"https://www.sublimefrequencies.com/products/576864-saigon-rock-soul-vietnamese-classic-tracks-1968-1974\">featuring a woman in a menswear jacket, cap and tinted oversized glasses smoking a cigarette\u003c/a> — Tâm’s reaction was swift.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Oh, they are liar! I never smoke!” Tâm said, according to Hannah.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hannah contacted \u003ca href=\"http://sharjahart.org/sharjah-art-foundation/people/gergis-mark\">Mark Gergis, the producer and audio archivist who compiled that album\u003c/a>. Gergis, who is originally from Oakland but now lives in London, has spent two decades focused on diasporic Middle Eastern and Southeast Asian music.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although he owned one Phương Tâm album, he knew nothing of her backstory. Hannah and Gergis discovered that the version of “Magical Night” on “Saigon Rock and Soul” was actually by Connie Kim, misattributed to Phương Tâm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So to set the record straight, Hannah’s idea was to make her own compilation of \u003cem>real\u003c/em> Phương Tâm songs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I really thought it was just going to be extracting songs from YouTube and putting it together,” says Hannah. “Mark said, ‘Oh, no, no, no, we cannot do that. We have to get the original recordings.’ And then I saw the humongous, impossible task in front of us. How are we going to be able to collect these records from 55 years ago?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It wasn’t easy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These records were in poor condition, most of them having been ravaged by war and time. Who knows what they have been through,” says Gergis, speaking by phone from London.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Restoration was quite a challenge and took significantly longer than any other restoration project I’ve been involved with.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hannah, Gergis and an international collective of music enthusiasts got to work — mostly over Zoom and FaceTime — and meticulously restored a lost musical history. When Hannah told her mom about her plans, Tâm was at first dismissive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She said, ‘Why do you have to do that?'” says Hannah. “‘You have a husband and a job.'” Who would buy the album anyway, Tâm asked her daughter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Hannah felt the urgency to memorialize her mother’s accomplishments while Tâm could still enjoy the attention. In her search, Hannah found fresh examples of other women singing Phương Tâm songs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was so frustrated. I saw so many people’s dishonesty,” says Tâm. “They were taking my name and claiming my songs. I didn’t want to listen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She asked her daughter to get YouTube to change the video. Hannah told her: “No, the only way to change it is: We have to do it ourselves.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Twenty-five of the rediscovered and remastered recordings crackle with energy on the new album “Magical Nights: Saigon, Surf, Twist and Soul 1964-1966.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11908011\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11908011\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54223_Magical-Nights-Album-Cover-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54223_Magical-Nights-Album-Cover-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54223_Magical-Nights-Album-Cover-qut-800x800.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54223_Magical-Nights-Album-Cover-qut-1020x1020.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54223_Magical-Nights-Album-Cover-qut-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54223_Magical-Nights-Album-Cover-qut-1536x1536.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Magical Nights: Saigon Surf Twist and Soul 1964-1966 captures the short bright career of a born performer. \u003ccite>(Sublime Frequencies)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The songs are rich in verve and atmosphere, with a danceable rock sound.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first time Tâm heard the newly restored songs, like “Remember the Night” from 1964, she cried.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She hadn’t heard some of those songs for over 50 years, and had almost forgotten them. But when Hannah found them, Tâm remembered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She remembered who played the keyboard, who played guitar. She remembered the camaraderie of early morning meals after a night singing. She wished her husband Du, who had been with her at the peak of her career, could have heard the songs again, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The album was released on streaming services last fall, and the first CD press sold out. Sublime Frequencies has pressed more due to demand. A vinyl release, delayed due to the pandemic, is scheduled for later in spring 2022. Hannah had wanted to release all formats together, but Tâm felt a sense of urgency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hannah recalls her mother telling her in an email, “My friends are getting old, deaf and dying. Please release now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11908012\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1616px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11908012\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54219_Hannah-and-Tam-Photo-Courtesy-Le-My-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1616\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54219_Hannah-and-Tam-Photo-Courtesy-Le-My-qut.jpg 1616w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54219_Hannah-and-Tam-Photo-Courtesy-Le-My-qut-800x535.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54219_Hannah-and-Tam-Photo-Courtesy-Le-My-qut-1020x682.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54219_Hannah-and-Tam-Photo-Courtesy-Le-My-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54219_Hannah-and-Tam-Photo-Courtesy-Le-My-qut-1536x1027.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1616px) 100vw, 1616px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tâm and her daughter Hannah \u003ccite>(Courtesy Lê Mỷ)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Tâm still sings. She has a backup band of retired Vietnamese amateur musicians who play an underground circuit of parties around the Bay Area. Mostly she sings other people’s songs, but she makes a point now to mention her new album. Sometimes she passes around memorabilia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The guests eat it up. They say that the music takes them back to a time before the worst of the war, when there was the excitement of discovering a world outside their small villages. Tâm, confident in a spangly top, encourages them to join her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“\u003cem>This\u003c/em> was the same woman from the records. This was the same woman from that time,” says producer Gergis, of watching her perform. “This was someone filled with light and resilience, and who still had such a beautiful and powerful voice and desire to sing. Music is in her blood.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I didn’t think my mom was cool at all,” says Hannah. “And now she’s, like, hot!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And at 77, Tâm is ready for her victory tour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>It was 1945 in Quảng Bình, the thin north-central neck of Vietnam, and \u003ca href=\"https://apjjf.org/2011/9/5/Geoffrey-Gunn/3483/article.html\">famine ravaged the country\u003c/a>. A newborn baby wailed in a sugarcane field, announcing her arrival with a rawness that would later become her signature. Giving birth indoors was thought to be bad luck, so Nguyễn Thị Tâm — or Tâm — was born outside. A fortuneteller said she would be famous one day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, by adolescence, Tâm didn’t seem destined for traditional greatness — which in Vietnam usually meant academic achievement. Her family moved to Hóc Môn, a district outside the southern capital of Saigon. Here, she failed to enter the prestigious Gia Long Girls’ High School.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Tâm didn’t care; she had music.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By 19, under the stage name Phương Tâm, she shared album covers and marquees with Saigon’s most sought-after singers, musicians and composers.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/W1rDLliHJGc'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/W1rDLliHJGc'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>Phương Tâm peaked from 1964 to 1966, and then disappeared into obscurity for over 50 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She married a doctor and had three children, living a suburban life in San José. It wasn’t until recently, with the encouragement of her oldest daughter, Hannah Hà, did Phương Tâm at age 77 reclaim her identity as Vietnam’s first rock-and-roll queen.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Growth of a star\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Tâm’s father kept the family’s single radio set on BBC News. So, as an adolescent, Tâm found her musical fix in the cacophony of her village courtyard. It was the late 1950s, and American pop music was beginning to influence Vietnamese tastes — which had previously included folk opera, French jazz and bolero. Tâm lingered by a neighbor’s window listening to songs like Connie Francis’s “Lipstick on your Collar,” and rapidly copied the beats and lyrics she didn’t understand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At 16, Tâm won a singing competition and was accepted into Đoàn Văn nghệ Việt Nam, a program to create live entertainment for military personnel. It was good money, but eventually Tâm ditched the propaganda music — and high school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She found mentors who shared her love of Western music. One well-known musician, Nguyễn Văn Xuân, took her on as a private student. He gave all his best students stage names, so Tâm became “Phương Tâm.” It meant “the direction of the heart.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11908007\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11908007\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54217_Tam-in-ao-dai-band-at-Miss-Viet-Nam-pageant-1965-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1418\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54217_Tam-in-ao-dai-band-at-Miss-Viet-Nam-pageant-1965-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54217_Tam-in-ao-dai-band-at-Miss-Viet-Nam-pageant-1965-qut-800x591.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54217_Tam-in-ao-dai-band-at-Miss-Viet-Nam-pageant-1965-qut-1020x753.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54217_Tam-in-ao-dai-band-at-Miss-Viet-Nam-pageant-1965-qut-160x118.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54217_Tam-in-ao-dai-band-at-Miss-Viet-Nam-pageant-1965-qut-1536x1134.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Miss Vietnam pageant in 1965. Phương Tâm wore traditional áo dài while singing subversive songs. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Nguyễn Ánh 9)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Her name change signaled her rise to fame. Phương Tâm headlined the nightclub circuit, and she collaborated with famed composers and musicians, including \u003ca href=\"https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kh%C3%A1nh_B%C4%83ng\">Khánh Băng, one of the first Vietnamese people to perform with an electric guitar\u003c/a>. The \u003ca href=\"https://vietcetera.com/en/jan-hagenkotter-and-saigon-supersound-volume-1\">major Saigon labels\u003c/a> — Sóng Nhạc, Continental and Việt Nam — recorded her songs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her style of singing wasn’t just “sexy-naive,” a common trope that continues to have appeal in Vietnam today, but also at times was downright loud and raucous. In spite (or because) of the subversive nature of the music she sang, Phương Tâm kept her clothing modest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At night I always wore áo dài, but always wore white or beige, not bright,” says Tâm, sitting in her living room in San José.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The áo dài was the wispy national dress of Vietnam, made famous by pictures of schoolgirls. But Phương Tâm wasn’t your average schoolgirl. In a music review from 1962, \u003ca href=\"https://vietnamlit.org/wiki/index.php?title=Mai_Thao\">famed Vietnamese writer Mai Thảo\u003c/a> wrote in “Kịch Ảnh” (“Drama”) magazine about the simmering power of this modestly dressed teen:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“As she steps from the back and moves toward the microphone with glittering eyes her hands clapping to the beat — a new shape emerges. The figure is now drawn with burning flames, like a green fruit ripening before your eyes.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Phương Tâm, like other performers, would chạy số — which literally translates as “run numbers.” The phrase described the high-speed nightclub runs that were common for performers at the time: 5 p.m. at Tân Sơn Nhất Air Base, 7 p.m. at An Đông, 8 p.m. at \u003ca href=\"http://taybui.blogspot.com/2015/10/nhac-saigon-ban-em-1963.html\">the Capriccio Bar\u003c/a> — then to \u003ca href=\"https://saigoneer.com/saigon-heritage/13814-old-saigon-building-of-the-week-the-glitz-and-glam-of-tu-do-nightclub\">Tự Do\u003c/a>. And so on, every hour, three songs per venue. At midnight, she finished with an hour-long set at the Olympia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11908008\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1853px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11908008\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54222_Phuong-Tam-wearing-pink-Dep-Magazine-cover-qut-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1853\" height=\"2560\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54222_Phuong-Tam-wearing-pink-Dep-Magazine-cover-qut-scaled.jpg 1853w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54222_Phuong-Tam-wearing-pink-Dep-Magazine-cover-qut-800x1105.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54222_Phuong-Tam-wearing-pink-Dep-Magazine-cover-qut-1020x1409.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54222_Phuong-Tam-wearing-pink-Dep-Magazine-cover-qut-160x221.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54222_Phuong-Tam-wearing-pink-Dep-Magazine-cover-qut-1112x1536.jpg 1112w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54222_Phuong-Tam-wearing-pink-Dep-Magazine-cover-qut-1482x2048.jpg 1482w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1853px) 100vw, 1853px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Phương Tâm on the cover of Đẹp magazine \u003ccite>(Courtesy Phương Tâm)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Tâm had an admirer, an officer who followed her from one venue to the next. He loved it when Tâm sang “Tenderly.” The officer told her it reminded him of her “enticing lips.” She kept her distance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>November 1963 signaled a significant change for South Vietnam. The president, Ngô Đình Diệm, was assassinated. The details of the event remain murky, but \u003ca href=\"https://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/pentagon2/pent6.htm\">American involvement and military presence increased.\u003c/a> The nightclubs catered to a growing military clientele. One night that month, Tâm’s admirer brought along a young new military doctor, Hà Xuân Du. There was something different about the young doctor, Tâm recalls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He asked me for my address, and the day after, he came to my house,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They started dating, and “Tenderly” became their song. But Phương Tâm and Du’s marriage almost three years later — between a singer and the son of an elite family — was scandalous. Their parents didn’t come to their wedding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They don’t accept me, but … we were already in love,” says Tâm.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A different life\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In 1966, as quickly as Phương Tâm ascended to fame, she left her singing career — without a goodbye tour or a last interview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tâm followed her husband to \u003ca href=\"https://www.usafpolice.org/danang.html\">Đà Nẵng Air Base, just over 100 miles south of the demilitarized zone\u003c/a> that separated North and South Vietnam. Between 1967 and 1968, the war — and the bombing — intensified. Tâm sheltered with her three children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The rockets would go … the sirens!” recalls Hannah, Tâm’s oldest daughter. “Whenever we would hear the sirens, we would go into the bunker.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hannah remembers hiding for days at a time in that oppressively hot single room with a refrigerator.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the fall of Saigon in 1975, \u003ca href=\"https://media.defense.gov/2012/Aug/23/2001330098/-1/-1/0/Oper%20Frequent%20Wind.pdf\">the family evacuated on a cargo plane.\u003c/a> They eventually arrived in Southern California. There, Tâm found work — mostly random, repetitive piecework for the garment industry. She sewed, but not well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I only knew how to sew in a straight line,” Tâm says with a shrug and an impish laugh. She made $0.10 a garment cutting loose thread. Meanwhile, her husband studied to requalify to practice medicine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’d come home every day and there’d be a burnt pot,” says Tâm. Du would try to boil a pot of water for coffee and get distracted either by studying or watching sports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Life for Tâm revolved around the kids and, by 1980, supporting Du’s successful pediatrics practice in San José.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was always cooking, cleaning, going to work, disciplining us, making sure that we were well behaved,” recalls Hannah of that time in her family’s life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eventually the family acquired the trappings of Vietnamese immigrant success, right down to the white leather couch in the living room. The couple developed strong ties with people in the Vietnamese diaspora, with a special appreciation for music.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When my then-boyfriend — now husband — came to visit my mom for the first time, he had to sing two songs on the karaoke machine: ‘I’ve Got You Under My Skin’ and ‘My Way,'” says Hannah.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her parents graduated beyond simple karaoke, however. Their parties included a who’s who of Vietnamese pre-1975 musicians, including \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nguy%E1%BB%85n_%C3%81nh_9\">Nguyễn Ánh 9, who ‘d once backed Tâm on the guitar in Vietnam\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11908015\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11908015\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/ALBUM-COVER-%E2%80%9CTWIST-SURF-BEGUINE-ROCK-1-USE-THIS.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1942\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/ALBUM-COVER-“TWIST-SURF-BEGUINE-ROCK-1-USE-THIS.png 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/ALBUM-COVER-“TWIST-SURF-BEGUINE-ROCK-1-USE-THIS-800x809.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/ALBUM-COVER-“TWIST-SURF-BEGUINE-ROCK-1-USE-THIS-1020x1032.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/ALBUM-COVER-“TWIST-SURF-BEGUINE-ROCK-1-USE-THIS-160x162.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/ALBUM-COVER-“TWIST-SURF-BEGUINE-ROCK-1-USE-THIS-1519x1536.png 1519w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The album cover for “TWIST SURF BEGUINE ROCK.” Phương Tâm quickly learned and recorded songs in a single session. There were no second takes. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Cường Phạm)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Tâm’s past life as a singer was an open secret. She didn’t deny it — but she stuck to singing other people’s hits, not her own.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When her husband Googled her a few years ago, he found v\u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1408772159206973&ref=sharing\">ideos that purported to feature Phương Tâm\u003c/a>. “‘Oh, my God, what woman is doing this! Look at this! Who ever put this video up and use your name?'” Hannah remembers her father saying. For Du, there was only one Phương Tâm: his wife.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To make things more confusing, there was another singer with a similar name, Phương Hoài Tâm, also in San José. This woman ran a skin care salon while performing on the side.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A new chapter\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>“My mom and my dad were always a couple,” recalls Hannah. “Wherever they went, over to their friend’s house, it was never without the other.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then in 2019, Tâm’s husband Du died after a prolonged illness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vietnamese people often make \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdm.org/voyagetovietnam/altars.html\">an altar in their homes to honor the dead.\u003c/a> Commonly, the altar pictures are static: a face either in a formal pose, or a slightly brighter version of a passport photo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in Tâm’s home, her beloved is holding a microphone, singing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Du’s death was a turning point for Hannah and Tâm. Hannah went searching for more information about her mom’s past life. She stumbled across compilations of Vietnamese wartime rock music, including the most successful album to date, called \u003ca href=\"https://www.sublimefrequencies.com/products/576864-saigon-rock-soul-vietnamese-classic-tracks-1968-1974\">“Saigon Rock and Soul: Vietnamese Classic Tracks 1968-1974.”\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The album attributed one song, “Magical Night,” to Phương Tâm. Hannah couldn’t be sure it was her mom’s voice. And when she showed Tâm the cover — \u003ca href=\"https://www.sublimefrequencies.com/products/576864-saigon-rock-soul-vietnamese-classic-tracks-1968-1974\">featuring a woman in a menswear jacket, cap and tinted oversized glasses smoking a cigarette\u003c/a> — Tâm’s reaction was swift.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Oh, they are liar! 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Who knows what they have been through,” says Gergis, speaking by phone from London.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Restoration was quite a challenge and took significantly longer than any other restoration project I’ve been involved with.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hannah, Gergis and an international collective of music enthusiasts got to work — mostly over Zoom and FaceTime — and meticulously restored a lost musical history. When Hannah told her mom about her plans, Tâm was at first dismissive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She said, ‘Why do you have to do that?'” says Hannah. “‘You have a husband and a job.'” Who would buy the album anyway, Tâm asked her daughter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Hannah felt the urgency to memorialize her mother’s accomplishments while Tâm could still enjoy the attention. In her search, Hannah found fresh examples of other women singing Phương Tâm songs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was so frustrated. I saw so many people’s dishonesty,” says Tâm. “They were taking my name and claiming my songs. I didn’t want to listen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She asked her daughter to get YouTube to change the video. Hannah told her: “No, the only way to change it is: We have to do it ourselves.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Twenty-five of the rediscovered and remastered recordings crackle with energy on the new album “Magical Nights: Saigon, Surf, Twist and Soul 1964-1966.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11908011\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11908011\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54223_Magical-Nights-Album-Cover-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54223_Magical-Nights-Album-Cover-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54223_Magical-Nights-Album-Cover-qut-800x800.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54223_Magical-Nights-Album-Cover-qut-1020x1020.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54223_Magical-Nights-Album-Cover-qut-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54223_Magical-Nights-Album-Cover-qut-1536x1536.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Magical Nights: Saigon Surf Twist and Soul 1964-1966 captures the short bright career of a born performer. \u003ccite>(Sublime Frequencies)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The songs are rich in verve and atmosphere, with a danceable rock sound.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first time Tâm heard the newly restored songs, like “Remember the Night” from 1964, she cried.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She hadn’t heard some of those songs for over 50 years, and had almost forgotten them. But when Hannah found them, Tâm remembered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She remembered who played the keyboard, who played guitar. She remembered the camaraderie of early morning meals after a night singing. She wished her husband Du, who had been with her at the peak of her career, could have heard the songs again, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The album was released on streaming services last fall, and the first CD press sold out. Sublime Frequencies has pressed more due to demand. A vinyl release, delayed due to the pandemic, is scheduled for later in spring 2022. Hannah had wanted to release all formats together, but Tâm felt a sense of urgency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hannah recalls her mother telling her in an email, “My friends are getting old, deaf and dying. Please release now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11908012\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1616px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11908012\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54219_Hannah-and-Tam-Photo-Courtesy-Le-My-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1616\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54219_Hannah-and-Tam-Photo-Courtesy-Le-My-qut.jpg 1616w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54219_Hannah-and-Tam-Photo-Courtesy-Le-My-qut-800x535.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54219_Hannah-and-Tam-Photo-Courtesy-Le-My-qut-1020x682.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54219_Hannah-and-Tam-Photo-Courtesy-Le-My-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54219_Hannah-and-Tam-Photo-Courtesy-Le-My-qut-1536x1027.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1616px) 100vw, 1616px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tâm and her daughter Hannah \u003ccite>(Courtesy Lê Mỷ)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Tâm still sings. She has a backup band of retired Vietnamese amateur musicians who play an underground circuit of parties around the Bay Area. Mostly she sings other people’s songs, but she makes a point now to mention her new album. Sometimes she passes around memorabilia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The guests eat it up. They say that the music takes them back to a time before the worst of the war, when there was the excitement of discovering a world outside their small villages. Tâm, confident in a spangly top, encourages them to join her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“\u003cem>This\u003c/em> was the same woman from the records. This was the same woman from that time,” says producer Gergis, of watching her perform. “This was someone filled with light and resilience, and who still had such a beautiful and powerful voice and desire to sing. 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