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He used to be a member of several music bands like: Golden Keys, Frangipani, Watermelon and later become solo artist. In 2002, he relocated in America and married female singer Trizzie Phuong Trinh. Due to controversial statements, at the end of 2004, his Vietnam citizenship was taken until 2008 that he finally had first Vietnam visit. Apparently, he is one of the exclusive singer of Thuy Nga Center.^[2]

His vocal is listed as tenor which is rated to be clear and emotional. He is the singer of the same time with Lam Truong, Minh Thuan, Phuong Thanh, My Linh, Duong Chi Linh, Quang Linh.

In September 2012, he had another visit in Vietnam and was grant allowance to hold liveshow within 3 months from October to December by Bureau of Art Performance.

Family

He was the youngest son of the third wife of his father as in a big family with artistic tradition including his father and three wives of his father and 16 siblings. His mother is Vietnamese opera singer Luu Nga, while his father is doctor Nguyen Bang Bui yet loved music and arts. The family lived in a small loft located at Ngo Si Lien Street in Ha Noi. He was born during difficult time as his father kept working at the hospital and his mother sold pho and performed sometimes. When he exposed his talent, all of his family invested all of the money for him to learn music and chase his dream.

He shared that during his mom's pregnancy, she used to dream of picking him up at Xa Kieu bridge, it's why they named him Bang Kieu. When first starting to perform, he shared that "being miserable for such not so modern name", however later he feels that "my name is pretty unique"

Career

Debut: 1989-2000

In 1989, he passed and enrolled in Basson class at Ha Noi Music Institute. During his enrollment, he established Golden Key music band. Later he joined Fragipani music band from 1990 to 1996. In 1998, he established another new music band called Watermelon including Anh Tu, Tuan Hung and Tuong Van. However Watermelon was disbanded in 2000 and he started his solo career.

National success

He gained much success as he was invited to perform in many national and local shows.

He also performed in big music shows and events such as Dong Thoi Gian 2002 show, consisting plenty of famous songwriters and singers of Vietnam, alongside Duyen Dang Viet Nam, Green Wave and Nhip Cau Am Nhac,...

In May 2001, he also played a role of a play by Ho Chi Minh City's Television Broadcast Station. His acting received positive reviews but it didn't remark much due to incomplete script. However, he impressed the audience and was named as "multitalent boy" by Tuoi Tre Newspaper. In September of same year, he participated in a football match against Hongkong actor football team as charity activity for Vietnam Deaf People Foundation.

Abroad touring: 2001-2003

Since the end of 2001, the movement of bringing singers to perform abroad by Ho Chi Minh City's Performance Organization Company had development and gained much success.Bang Kieu and artist crew had a 1 month tour as the request by Vietnamese Community in East Europe. Previously, he had performed in some music shows in America as well as learning studio techniques. He also performed in Australia in 2002.

After the release of album Chuyen La, he nearly vanished in national shows due to be busy touring between America and Vietnam to record his second album, as well as assisting Trizzie Phuong Trinh in business and preparing for the wedding. Beside singing, he was also acting and doing business with Phuong Trinh, including music tea room and coffee shop in Ho Chi Minh City. In May 2002, the organization of Duyen Dang Viet Nam invited him to join that year's show but he denied as he was being so busy in recording new album.

From September 2002, he got married and relocated in America. Later he showed up in a music festival in California. For a period of time, there were some protests from Vietnamese-American as they were doubtful that Bang Kieu was assigned to widely spread "culture movement" of Vietnam Communism in America. During a show in 2003, he shared that he would like to be a part of the community. He was cheerfully welcomed in many places of America and Canada. He also performed in Australia, Philippines, Netherlands, Germany and Czech Republic.

Incident: 2003-2004

In middle of November 2003, he came back to Hanoi to visit family. In November 25th, website Tin Tuc Vietnam Thoi Doi Moi by Bureau of Culture and Information posted an interview titled Kieu Bang Kieu. The interview stirred lots of confusion and disagreement among artists and oversea community and Vietnam even, including the statement regarding he was the highest paid artist among other Vietnamese artists in America, that he belonged to the generation of "enthusiastically dispelling Vietnamese-American music off Vietnam", that he didn't show up in abroad music shows on purpose, as well as some verdicts about the taste and working ethnic of music shows in Vietnam....alongside many hidden meaning statements. In December 27th 2003, in a meeting, the leader of Vietnamese Community in Sacramento had an official statement regarding the dispel of Bang Kieu for having "internal activities assigned from Vietnam Communism in order to corrupt Vietnamese refugees oversea". Facing the incident, he clarified that "the interview was twisted for bad purposes", that he did have an interview with the journalist but it was regarding common stories, unlike the statement in the interview.

After coming back to America, he made some controversial statement as clarification for the incident, as: "In most recent visit, I had denied many big music shows to prove my will toward the land of freedom...Hopefully everyone will be pleased to accept me as a new member of the community". This statement was said to be betrayal by Cong An Nhan Dan Newspaper. Following Cong An Nhan Dan Newspaper, during a show, a manager named Viet Dzung to have "Saigon old regime originality" had appointed someone to insert the flag of Saigon old regime in the bouquet so when Bang Kieu was waving the bouquet, it means he was waving the flag. This image was recorded and exaggerated for political purposes. Accordingly, all of the songs performed by Bang Kieu at Paris By Night shows was planned by Viet Dzung as a mean for "political purposes".

From February 2004, Bureau of Art - Performance submitted a statement for temporarily postponing his shows. In November 22th, they made a new statement to related agencies and individuals not to use any song and performance of Bang Kieu at any cost. Following the statement, his citizenship was officially taken (it wasn't clear of who had made the decision and what is the citizenship).

2004-now

He is collaborating with Thuy Nga Center and being one of the most famous artist in abroad. He often shows up in a series of Paris By Night, such as: Lang Nghe Mua Xuan Ve (Paris By Night 80), Em Toi Tham Anh Dem 30 (Paris By Night 85), Ban Tinh Cuoi (Paris By Night 86), Phut Cuoi (Paris By Night 88), Bien Can (Paris By Night 98), Xin Dung Quay Lai (Paris By Night 99), Mua Thu Cho Em - Mong Duoi Hoa (Paris By Night 96), Em Oi Ha Noi Pho (Paris By Night 91), Xin Loi Anh (featuring Minh Tuyet - Paris By Night 100)

At the end of February 2008, after 4 year living in America, he and family came back to Vietnam as a visit. He shared that he was "so happy", also declared to not perform nor give any interview with the reason "don't want and don't know what to say right now". During this visit, he joined music shows as being an audience. He showed up in the liveshow of songwriter Phu Quang, stage of Ha Noi Big Theater, Ha Noi's Culture Center, and gifted bouquets for Ngoc Anh and Ha Tran. Being touched by the love of the audience, he shared that "hopefully I could perform for Vietnamese audience in Vietnam". Also in this trip, his performance right was brought up into discussion. In an interview with an online website, it was said that there was yet any information regarding his will to perform again in Vietnam, however if he wanted to perform again, a submission would be required.

In March 2010, he suddenly came back to Vietnam and joined the birthday party of singer Hong Nhung. Afterward, during the tour in Phnom Penh in December 2011, he and family came back to Vietnam for 3rd time. He held a fan meeting at Club Passion in Ha Noi. However, it was crowded so the police required to cancel the fan meeting due to public noise, although the meeting had only lasted for 15 minutes. His fan was informed to move to Thong Nhat Park later. Another reason for this visit was to join 47th anniversary of singer Thanh Tuyen in Ha Noi.

In September 25th 2012, he and singer Khanh Ly was officially righted to perform in Vietnam by Bureau of Art Performance, which lasted until December same year.

Personal life

He has some relationships. He used to have 6 year relationship with singer My Linh. Both even considered of getting married. However, due to minor conflicts, they parted ways. After the relationship with My Linh, it was said that he had new girlfriend named Tang Hue Van who is 6-7 younger than him. He was the one to encourage and support her to follow music career.

He met American-Vietnamese Trizzie Phuong Trinh in Duyen Dang Viet Nam 9 in April 2000. He abandoned smoking habit that he had widely admitted that his voice was badly impacted since he met Trizzie (however according to Trizzie, he still kept smoking). In September 2002, after 1 year dating, they got married. The wedding was held in America and Ha Noi then he relocated in South California. Their first son was named Beckham Bang Phuong. Until 2012, he's already had 3 sons.

He shared that he would never have a duet with Trizzie due to the differences in style and vocal ability.

In May 2013, it was rumored that they split ways. Apparently, they has divorced.

Until 2014, it was rumored that he was being a relationship with Miss Vietnam Duong My Linh.

Music style

In 2002, he shared that his music style was influenced by songwriter Duong Thu, as all of his songs written by him was mostly romantic, not sad and sorrowful. His music style often combines with deep love songs overall. Regarding performance costume, he used to say that vocal was the most important however he changed his mind and paid more attention to performance costume because "as to show respect to the audiences"

Albums

References

1. ^Rough Guide to Vietnam: ed4 - Page 538 Jan Dodd, Mark Lewis, Ron Emmons - 2003 "Singers of note include: Tran Thu Ha, My Linh, Phuong Thanh, Bang Kieu, Lam Truong, and Thanh Lam."
2. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.vietnambreakingnews.com/2012/09/bang-kieu-is-licensed-to-perform-in-vietnam/ |title=Bang Kieu is licensed to perform in Vietnam. }}.