SINGERS from Vietnam

Top 3

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

1. Amanda Lear (1939 - )

With an HPI of 70.32, Amanda Lear is the most famous Vietnamese Singer.  Her biography has been translated into 37 different languages on wikipedia.

Amanda Lear (née Tap or Tapp; born 18 June or 18 November 1939 or 1941 or 1946 or 1950 in Saigon or Hong Kong or Hanoi) is a French singer, songwriter, painter, television presenter, actress, and former model. She began her professional career as a fashion model in the mid-1960s, and went on to model for Paco Rabanne, Ossie Clark, and others. She met Spanish surrealist painter Salvador Dalí, and remained his closest friend and muse for the next 18.5 years. Lear first came into the public eye as the cover model for Roxy Music's album For Your Pleasure in 1973. From the mid-1970s to the early 1980s, she was a million-album-selling disco star signed to Ariola Records, primarily impacting continental Europe and Scandinavia. Lear's first four albums earned her mainstream popularity, charting in the top 10 of European charts, including the best-selling Sweet Revenge (1978). Her bigger hits included "Blood and Honey", "Tomorrow", "Queen of Chinatown", "Follow Me", "Enigma (Give a Bit of Mmh to Me)", "The Sphinx", and "Fashion Pack". By the mid-1980s, Lear had become a leading media personality in Italy, hosting many popular TV shows. Although television took priority over musical activity, she continued to record, experimenting with different genres and trying to revive her career by re-recording and remixing earlier hits to various levels of success. Lear has also developed a successful career in painting, which she has long described as her biggest passion, and regularly exhibited her works in galleries across Europe and beyond since the early 1980s. She has also written a number of autobiographies, including My Life with Dalí. Since the 1990s, her time has been divided among music, television, movies, and painting. Despite regular album releases, she failed to achieve major success in the charts with her music, but her television career has remained stellar, and she has hosted numerous primetime TV shows, mostly in Italy and France, occasionally making guest appearances in TV series. She has performed acting and dubbing roles in independent, as well as major, film productions. In the late 2000s, Lear reinvented herself as a theatrical actress, performing in long-running stage plays in France. To date, she allegedly has sold over 27 million records worldwide. Lear is also a widely recognized gay icon.

2. Sơn Tùng M-TP (1994 - )

With an HPI of 29.87, Sơn Tùng M-TP is the 2nd most famous Vietnamese Singer.  His biography has been translated into 16 different languages.

Nguyễn Thanh Tùng (born 5 July 1994), known professionally as Sơn Tùng M-TP ([s̪əːn˧ tuŋ˨˩ ɛm˧ ti:˧ pi:˧]), is a Vietnamese singer-songwriter and actor. Born and raised in Thái Bình, Thái Bình province, his family discovered his singing ability when he was two years old. His self-written 2012 and 2013 singles, "Cơn mưa ngang qua" and "Em của ngày hôm qua" launched his career. These were followed by successful singles "Chắc ai đó sẽ về", "Lạc trôi" and "Nơi này có anh". In 2017, Tùng released the compilation album M-tp M-TP and published his autobiography, Chạm tới giấc mơ. Tùng spent four years as part of Văn Production and WePro Entertainment before founding his own record label, M-TP Entertainment, in 2016. His other ventures include the M-TP Ambition Tour (2015–2016), the Sky Tour (2019), a starring role in the 2014 film Dandelion (which earned him a Golden Kite Prize for Young Prominent Actor) and an appearance as a contestant on the television series The Remix. Called a "Prince of V-pop" for his popularity, Tùng has received many accolades which include a MTV Europe Music Award, a Dedication Music Award, a Mnet Asian Music Award, seven Green Wave Awards and an inclusion on Forbes Vietnam's 2018 30 Under 30 list.

3. Amee (2000 - )

With an HPI of 24.01, Amee is the 3rd most famous Vietnamese Singer.  Her biography has been translated into 30 different languages.

Trần Huyền My, also known as Amee (born 23 March 2000) is a Vietnamese singer. She first gained audiences attention in 2019 when she released her debut song "Anh Nhà Ở Đâu Thế" ("Boy, Where do you live?"). She is best known for being the first solo female artist from St.319 Entertainment. She is the youngest Vietnamese artist to have won at the MAMA Awards for "Best New Asian Artist in Vietnam". Engaged in a musical career since 2018, Amee has a clear voice, and managed to quickly reach young audiences and become popular on social networks. The artist notably proposes a combination of tradition and modernity in her songs with the desire to bring Vietnamese music into world trends. In addition to "Anh nhà đâu thế?", Amee is also known for her songs "Đen đá không đường" ("Black-Iced-Coffee"), "Sao anh chưa về nhà?" ("Why don't you come home?"), and "Mama Boy". In December 2020, she released her first album Dreamee and performed the first live acoustic show of the same name with the idea of "healing" her fans with her soft music during the anxious period of the COVID-19 pandemic. Before winning an award at the MAMA 2020, Amee had already been honored with several national awards such as "Best Video of the Year" at the Metub WebTV Asia Awards 2019, "Best Song" at the Green Wave Awards 2019, "Top 10 Music Video in Vietnam" at YouTube Rewind 2019, "Best New Artist" at the Zing Music Awards 2019 and "New Revelation of the Year" at the Dedication Music Award 2020.