VietNamNet Bridge – Four Vietnamese singers and 16 other from Southeast Asian countries are competing at the Golden ASEAN Television Golden Voice Festival 2011.


The four Vietnamese representatives are Kasim Hoang Vu, Thu Minh, Tung Lam and H’zina Bya.

 

“I’ve dreamt of attending this competition for a long time to meet my colleagues from neighboring countries. I’m very happy to have been chosen to represent Vietnam in 2011,” said Kasim Hoang Vu, who became famous through the Morning Star Rendez-vous television singing contest 2004.

 

The second ASEAN Television Golden Voice Festival, organized by the HCM City Television Station and Cat Tien Sa company, aims to improve the friendship among Southeast Asian countries.

 

The festival has the presence of singers from Thailand, Myanmar, Cambodia, Malaysia, Indonesia, Brunei, the Philippines, Vietnam and guest singers from Japan.

 

On the opening night on January 1, singers performed traditional songs. They will sing pop songs on January 7. The festival will close on January 8 and will be aired live on HTV9.

 

The jury members include Keitaro Kamo, music producer of Toshiba Emi company, Indira Sotyawati, vocal music teacher and choreographer of the Sekolah Music School in Indonesia and Vietnamese famous songwriters Tran Long An and Nguyen Ngoc Thien.

Vietnamese pop star Thu Minh impressed the audience on the first show

of the ASEAN Television Golden Voice Festival on January 5

by performing  “Konia Tree Shadow”, which she performed at

the Television Singing Contest 1990 and won the first prize.

 




Once again, Thu Minh touched the heart of the audience with this song.

 



Kasim Hoang Vu heat up the show with “Seeking the Mountain Shadow”.

 


The first-prize winner of the Television Singing Competition 2009 Tung Lam sang “Waiting for Husband”.

 




H’Zina Bya, who just won the first prize of the Television Singing

Contest 2010, chose the song “Bu Nong Lullaby”.




 

Sam Sann Annda from Cambodia.

 


Netta Kusumah Dewi from Indonesia with “Your Love”.

 


Louela May Abolencia Basco from the Philippines with “Lullaby”.

 


Mohammad Fikri Bin Abdullah from Brunei with a song about childhood.

 


All singers performed “Let Us Move Ahead” at the end of the show.

The second show will take place tonight January 7.

 

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