Thanh lan thai chau biography

Vietnamese singer and recipient of political asylum in the United States

Thanh Lan (born 1 March 1948) is a popular Vietnamese American singer and actress. She was unable to leave Vietnam at the Fall of Saigon in 1975. In 1994 during a sponsored series of concerts in the United States, Vietnamese protesters accused her of colluding with the Hanoi government and being a communist sympathizer.^[1] Although she had been a beloved singer during the 1970s, in the US she became the subject of forceful protests and even death threats.^[2] She canceled all but one of her concerts, gave interviews pleading her case, and finally prevailed in her quest for asylum.^[3]

Biography

Phạm Thái Thanh Lan was born on 1 March 1948 in Vinh town, Nghệ An, a province of the State of Vietnam (now Vinh city, Nghệ An province, Vietnam).

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