1. Vu Thu Minh was born on September 22,1977 and often known simply as Thu Minh, is a Vietnamese pop-singer.
42 Facts About Thu Minh
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Thu Minh is famous for pop ballads and dance-pop music and is referred to as the "Queen of Dance-pop in Vietnam".
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Thu Minh originally trained to be a ballet dancer, and, before the age of 30, she had never officially attended any professional music school.
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Thu Minh covered some famous ballads of Whitney Houston, Celine Dion, including "I Will Always Love You" and "All by Myself".
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Pham Thi Huong Tram and Ali Hoang Duong, mentored by Thu Minh, became the winners of the 1st and 4th seasons of the show, respectively.
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Thu Minh's sister is married and lives in the US, while her elder brother's family lives with her parents in Ho Chi Minh City.
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Thu Minh participated in some musical activities and small musical contests during her school days.
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Thu Minh did not reveal her idea to family and registered on her own.
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Thu Minh only sang because she wanted to sing and to earn enough money for building a private house for her parents.
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Thu Minh solely used to sing for bars, discotheque, acoustic cafe, and clubs to stabilize her regular income.
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In 2000, Thu Minh sang a duet with one of Vietnam's most famous musicians, Tran Tien, in one of the most favorite songs, "She's carefree", in his own concert entitled Improvisative Tran Tien.
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Thu Minh performed English classic hits of divas such as Whitney Houston and Celine Dion to appreciative live audiences.
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Thu Minh only attempted to perform Vietnamese classic hit songs that praised or mentioned Vietnam wars, patriotism, fatherland, and love in wars.
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In 2004, Thu Minh took a creative move to establish TM Solutions as her own company to serve for her own artistic activities and for business.
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Thu Minh's favored genre and personality in her music is pop ballad.
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Thu Minh covered many immortal English songs of popular singers like Celine Dion, Mariah Carey, or Whitney Houston.
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Thu Minh's voice was internally powerful and fully energetic, sometimes melodious, sometimes warmly high and always rich, full of marvelous, powerful sounds.
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Thu Minh genuinely said that the "frugal","straight-forwarded, critical and perfectionism" in her music career, inherited from her mother, is such a good element for her job because it helps bring the audience her best music performances, regardless of how long it costs in execution time.
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Thirteen years after entering music in Vietnam, Thu Minh suddenly changed her music and style remarkably to dance-pop.
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Thu Minh now wanted to share and bring her music closer to public tastes to lead them.
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On 24 November 2012, Thu Minh participated in Korean global concert M-Live MO.
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Thu Minh was upset because it was not as good as her expectation without blaming on anyone and refusing to talk more on this, yet as a singer of a firm stuff, she managed well on stage, performed at her best with enthusiasm and 'burned' the whole stage for it.
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In 2005, Thu Minh received an invitation for the role, named "Ai", in the series Tinh yeu con mai from its film director.
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Thu Minh's character was a strong-willed woman who is poor and undergoes multiple jobs to survive, which suits Thu Minh's personality the most as the director mentioned as his reason to invite her.
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In 2008, Thu Minh portraited one role of the soap opera named Lan and Diep on stage and received a warm welcome from the audiences.
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The audience was given a chance to acknowledge that Thu Minh has not only has a good voice, but owns an exquisite beauty and technical virtuosity in each routine and her dancing.
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Thu Minh proved an enthusiastic effort and a determination throughout practices.
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Thu Minh declared that she considers dancesport as "lovers, still in love but could not see it again because of a fear for love blossoming".
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Thu Minh mainly focused and boldly tried to imitate routines and style of a 'real' professional dancer throughout the competition.
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Thu Minh truly found her explosive fame and success through her talented mentoring, a sane judgment and a sensible art instinct.
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Thu Minh is claimed to be the most favourite judge by contestants and audiences due to her strong voice and notable experiences throughout the show.
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Many audience members touched and impressed when seeing coach Thu Minh herself standing shoulder conductor professional choral conductor and enthusiasm.
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Thu Minh confirmed that they would leave the bench coach next season.
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In 2015 and 2016, Thu Minh returned to Vietnamese television as a judge on Vietnam Idol, replacing My Tam, who filled in her vacant chair on The Voice.
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Thu Minh was described as a strict, but devoted and kind judge.
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Thu Minh eventually returned to The Voice of Vietnam for its fourth season in 2017, and her final act, Ali Hoang Duong, was crowned the winner.
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Thu Minh became the first coach in the show's history to win twice.
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Thu Minh has a few best friends in music industry, two of them are singer Minh Tu in the Tam Ca Ao Trang female band and singer My Le.
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Thu Minh had a first love which lasted more than eight years with musician Hoai Sa.
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Thu Minh has frankly admitted that she fell in love with her second love before separating with Hoai Sa and that this is immoral behavior when disrespecting and hurting her first love.
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Hoai Sa admitted after three years of separation, he realised the reason Thu Minh left him was due to his "carefree", and "unstable" lifestyle.
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Thu Minh married Dutch businessman Otto de Jager in 2012.