Hồng Vân

Hong Van (1950- ) is a Vietnamese singer most famous for her musical recitals of Vietnamese poetry known as Ngâm Thơ. She was born in 1950 in the imperial city of Hue, Central Vietnam to a family of Vietnamese royalty. Her parents divorced shortly after Hong Van was born and her mother took her to live with her maternal grandparents in Quang Ngai. Married at 18, Hong Van would resettle in Saigon with her husband a year later. While in Saigon