Viet kieu from France presents Vietnamese music with a jazzy twist
July 23rd, 2011
French jazz guitarist Nguyen Le does not speak any Vietnamese, but Vietnam haunts him almost all the time. He remembers that during the Lunar New Year festival (Tet) in 1994, he heard Huong Thanh sing some Vietnamese folksongs at a friend’s house in France. “I was really moved (by the singing) though I didn’t understand [...]