Thanh Tùng is a Vietnam

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ese pop music composer and songwriter

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. He was born in Gò Vấp, Saigon but moved to Hanoi

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 at age 6.

Thanh Tùng graduated from the Pyongyang

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 Conservatory in 1971 and worked for Voice of Vietnam from 1971 to 1975. After the reunification of Vietnam in 1975, he returned to Sài Gòn, now Hồ Chí Minh City

Ho Chi Minh City

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, and contributed to the establishment of Ho Chi Minh City Television's orchestra. He also worked as conductor and art manager of Bông Sen (Lotus) music company. He works now for Hồ Chí Minh City Association of Musicians.

Thanh Tùng composed his first pop song, Cây sầu riêng trổ bông, in 1975. Since then, he has written over 200 songs. His songs are very popular among Vietnamese young people, for example Hát với chú ve con, Hoàng hôn màu lá, Chuyện tình của biển, Lời tỏ tình của mùa xuân, Ngôi sao cô đơn, Câu chuyện nhỏ của tôi, Hoa tím ngoài sân, Em và tôi, Phố biển, Mưa ngâu, Lối cũ ta về... The song Một mình has a chorus which resembles that of a Russia

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n folk song.

Tùng is also a businessman, who has interests in mineral water

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, the restaurant

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 and hotel

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 businesses, and real estate

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; he also owns a discotheque. He opened a restaurant called The Twins in July 1998 in Ho Chi Minh City.