MUSICIANS from Vietnam

Top 3

The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Vietnamese Musicians of all time. This list of famous Vietnamese Musicians is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.

1. Riccardo Cocciante (b. 1946)

With an HPI of 59.33, Riccardo Cocciante is the most famous Vietnamese Musician.  His biography has been translated into 23 different languages on wikipedia.

Riccardo Cocciante (Italian: [rikˈkardo kotˈtʃante]; born 20 February 1946), also known in French-speaking countries and the United States as Richard Cocciante (French: [ʁiʃaʁ kɔʃjɑ̃t]), is an Italian and French singer and songwriter.

2. Trịnh Công Sơn (1939 - 2001)

With an HPI of 49.06, Trịnh Công Sơn is the 2nd most famous Vietnamese Musician.  Her biography has been translated into 16 different languages.

Trịnh Công Sơn (February 28, 1939 – April 1, 2001) was a Vietnamese musician, songwriter, painter and poet. He is widely considered to be Vietnam's best songwriter. His music explores themes of love, loss, and anti-war sentiments during the Vietnam War, for which he was censored by both the southern Republic of Vietnam and the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. Many performing artists, most notably Khánh Ly, Trinh Vinh Trinh (his younger sister), and some overseas singers such as Tuan Ngoc, Le Quyen, Le Thu, and Ngoc Lan, have gained popularity in their own right from covering Trịnh's songs.

3. Phạm Duy (1921 - 2013)

With an HPI of 46.35, Phạm Duy is the 3rd most famous Vietnamese Musician.  His biography has been translated into 15 different languages.

Phạm Duy (5 October 1921 – 27 January 2013) was one of Vietnam's most prolific songwriters with a musical career that spanned more than seven decades through some of the most turbulent periods of Vietnamese history and with more than one thousand songs to his credit, he is widely considered one of the three most salient and influential figures of modern Vietnamese music, along with Văn Cao and Trịnh Công Sơn. His music is noted for combining elements of traditional music with new methods, creating melodies that are both modern and traditional. A politically polarizing figure, his entire body of work was banned in North Vietnam during the Vietnam War and subsequently in unified Vietnam for more than 30 years until the government began to ease restrictions on some of his work upon his repatriation in 2005.