VietNamNet Bridge – Well-known rock musician and singer Tran Lap died yesterday (March 17) after fighting rectum cancer for more than four months. He was 42 years old.

Rock on: Singer Tran Lap was the leader of well-known rock band Buc Tuong (The Wall). - VNS Photo Truong Vi

He was best known as the lead singer of Buc Tuong (The Wall) rock band that he and his friends had formed in 1994.

“I was shocked when I was informed about his sudden death. The rock band leader and singer Tran Lap represented the image of a youth full of passion and dreams. He will live forever in his fans’ hearts,” Dinh Tien Tiep, one of his fans who attended his last live show in January this year, wrote on a Facebook page.

Lap was the leader of the group since its founding till it disbanded in 2006. He wrote more than 30 songs, some of the most famous of them being Duong Den Ngay Vinh Quang (Road to Glory), Bong Hong Thuy Tinh (Glass Rose) and Tam hon Cua Da (Soul of Stone). The group had a large number of fans in Viet Nam.

He was also one of the four judges of the Giong Hat Viet (The Voice of Viet Nam) programme that was aired on VTV3.

Lap was born the youngest of a large and poor family in Nam Dinh Province in December 1974. He began his artistic career with vocal performances at the Department of Theatre of Ha Noi College of Art from 1993 to 1997. He graduated from the Department of Economics, Hanoi National University, in 2001.

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