PHỤ LỤC
Nụ cười còn mãi
(MỘT SỐ BÀI VIẾT VỀ SỰ RA ĐI CỦA WANBI TUẤN ANH)
SAIGON LOSES AN ICON. WANBI DIES,
AGED 26.
– PAWZ
Saigon lost a great man today when Wanbi Tuấn Anh passed away at the
young age of just 26 (which would be 25 in westernised terms). But let me
step back and tell you how I came to know who he was.
I first arrived in Vietnam in April 2011 for what I believed was to be a
10 day holiday, which then turned into six weeks, after which I just didn’t
get on the plane home, deciding that I liked the country too much and want-
ed to stay there.
But I remember in that first week wanting to soak up as much of the
culture as possible, and one of the ways I did that was to listen to the music
video channel Yan TV. I would actually leave the TV on all day and night
long when I was home in my ho- tel, because I’m a huge fan of Korean and
Japanese music and 4 times a day, Yan TV would dedicate a special slot to
that music.
I wasn’t much interested in the Vietnamese music. The language seemed
awkward to me and very un- suited to singing, and also, the music itself
was rather boring as popular Vietnamese music only has one style, and that
is love songs, or more specifically, break up songs. But there was one singer
that caught my eye and I bothered to go out of my way to re- member his
name.
