Ngoc Bich Ngan

Ngọc Bích Ngân

Ngọc Bích Ngân in Dazzling Traditional Gown
Background information
Birth name Nguyễn Ngọc Bích Ngân
Born 16 September 1973
Origin Mỹ Tho, Vietnam
Years active 1981-current

Nguyễn Ngọc Bích Ngân, (Mỹ Tho, 16 September 1973), is a Vietnamese-Canadian singer, songwriter, artist and writer. Beside being a performer, Ngoc Bich Ngan is also a writer and essayist at many Vietnamese national newspapers such as Thoi Bao Tap Chi Ca Dao, Thoi Moi media and many more. She was baptized a Catholic and has the Christian name Martha, St. Therese of the Infant Jesus.

Early life

Born as the sixth and last child to her father Phan-Xi-Cô Nguyễn Trọng Nghĩa and her mother Maria Nguyễn Thị Triêm, Ngoc Bich Ngan came to Canada with family in 1979. In 1981, she won the First Award of Golden Voice organized at Theatre 'Le Plateau' in Montreal, by the Montreal Chapter of the Vietnamese Canadian Association for young people under 14 years old. In her childhood education, Ngoc Bich Ngan studied and graduated from Montreal's private schools College Marie de France and Couvent Pensionnat du St. Nom de Marie. We can obviously see some big influences of the European and Religious inspiration & passion of the culture and education of these 'lycées' in Ngoc Bich Ngan’s soul and heart through her lyrics, her songs, her writings and her life.

Career

From 1981 to 1999, Ngan started her career as singer and songwriter in Montreal where she was hailed by Thoi Bao journalist Truong Ky as "one of the Vietnamese Canadian fastest rising stars in music and art". Some of the songs she has composed in Vietnamese are: Cung Thứ, Đàn Yêu, Giọt Buồn Thiếu Phụ, Nói Cùng Gió Xuân, Hoa Lòng Của Bé Mục Đồng, Cô Đơn, Đoàn Thanh Niên, Mộng Tuyết, Đêm Băng Giá, Chuyện Cây Thông.

As a devout Roman Catholic, together with other worldwide Catholic performers as well-known singer Khánh-Ly, famous MC Nguyá»…n Ngọc Ngạn, Ngoc Bich Ngan has participated as a volunteer singer and worker at World Youth Day from July 24 â€“ 27, 2002, to welcome Pope John Paul II to Toronto, Canada.[1][2][3][4]

In her English-French-Vietnamese Album, Ngoc Bich Ngan has chosen to rewrite herself the beautiful meanings and denotations of some popular English and French songs into Vietnamese lyrics.

After the Book Promotion Show on Nov 22, 2009 for the 2 Volumes: Du Khách... Miền Hạnh Phúc ( The Traveller... To The Loving Land / ISBN 978-0-9813690-0-6) ; Ẩn Sau Khung Cửa (Shrouded Behind The Frame / ISBN 978-0-9813690-1-3), Ngoc Bich Ngan was immediately recruited by the Pho Viet Newspaper and *Viet Online Edition as assistant Editor, where her talents in writing, prose & poem, text editing,... were highly appreciated.

In the early Summer 2010, Ngoc Bich Ngan founded the Vòm Trời (Vault of Ether) Magazine http://www.VomTroiMagazine.com where she is also its Editor in Chief.

On June 30, 2010, the first edition of the new Trilingual Magazine, Edition: Summer 2010, was published and released in Montreal, Toronto and California. The purpose of the Magazine is first to promote literature, poetry, music and art with interesting and educational articles addressing the issues relevant to today living supported by creatively artistic design and layout. Second, it provides an entrepreneurial medium of effective communications for Canadian businesses and professionals.

As reported in several interviews, one of Ngoc Bich Ngan's several projects is to translate hundred of her published novels, articles, stories and love-songs into English so she will have a chance to convey her messages about True-love to more readers and music’s listeners worldwide.

Albums

Ngoc Bich Ngan most-loved illustration
. Picture taken in 2006

Published Novels and Short Stories

Thời Báo (ThoiBao-info) – with the following columns: Knowledge - Aesthetics - Music - Living – Society, Woman’s Corner; Poetry & Short Story

Tap Chi Ca Dao (TapchiCa Dao) – with the following columns : Do You Know?/ Knowledge – Aesthetics & Poetry - Woman's Corner

Composed Songs

Cung Thứ, Đàn Yêu, Giọt Buồn Thiếu Phụ, Nói Cùng Gió Xuân, Hoa Lòng Của Bé Mục Đồng, Cô Đơn, Đoàn Thanh Niên, Mộng Tuyết, Đêm Băng Giá, Chuyện Cây Thông

Articles written by Ngoc Bich Ngan

External links

Sources

References

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  2. ↑ wyd26
  3. ↑ wyd27a
  4. ↑ wyd27b
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