Top 10 Best Vietnamese Songs of All Time

The song Hello Vietnam is no longer just a piece of music, a poem, but an 'artwork', through which listeners can feel the history, culture, and melodies from thousands of years echoing from sacred mountains and rivers. Each time listening, one feels nervous as if in love, feels moved by the singing voice of a Vietnamese overseas, echoing profound and heartfelt sounds. 'Greetings to my mothers, the women bending on rice fields; In prayers, in light, I see my brothers again. I return to the heartfelt voice, to the roots, to the land of my parents'.

The singing voice is like a delicate breeze, transparent and soft, carrying sincere homeland emotions. The performer of the song is Pham Quynh Anh, a Belgian-Vietnamese girl, with a lovely face like a pure Vietnamese student, innocent and deep like traditional folk tunes. Hello Vietnam with Quynh Anh's performance has a strangely infectious power. Listening to her voice, looking at her face, one feels the purity of childhood; forgetting all hatred, one only sees immense love, a haunting feeling, the heart of overseas children in a touching song.

Father Tells His Child is a simple conversation between a father and his child. The father's childhood years appear in a simple, affectionate way with many memories. Nguyen Hai Phong not only expresses love, instills hope, but also passes on to his son a love for music: “When listening to music, you're gentler. When listening to music, you're a river, you're a field'.

With Father Tells His Child, he portrays an adult man with tolerance and great love for his family.

Lyrics:

'...When listening to music, you're gentler

When listening to music, you're a river, you're a field, you're a field

Lying amidst the vast sky

Like your grandmother used to sing when your father was still a child

Sometimes it's a midsummer filled with wind
Sometimes it's playing at the end of the alley, your father is sorrowful, is sorrowful

Because your father catches a cold from the mist

Grandpa teaches your father to grow up extraordinary strength...'

Mothers are an inexhaustible theme in Vietnamese music. Writing about mothers, each musician has their own deeply emotional experience. When mentioning remarkable compositions about mothers, one cannot forget 'My Mother' by composer Tran Tien. 'My Mother' is a song written from the very heart of Tran Tien.

According to singer Tran Thu Ha, Tran Tien's granddaughter, 'My Mother'

is a song Tran Tien dedicated to the memory of his deceased mother. Being the closest to his mother in the family, he wrote lyrics straight from the heart. During a memorial service for his mother, Tran Tien sang this song, deeply moving everyone present. The lyrics are like the reflections of an older child looking back at the hardships and boundless love of their mother. It's only after one experiences enough in life that they truly understand a mother's love.

Where the Heart Seeks seems to contain reminiscences of homeland, parents, the place where one was born and raised, the place of cherished childhood memories, as soon as it was released.

The song touches the hearts of those children who have had to leave their families, their homeland, with the hope of bringing back something better for their homeland, enriching their homeland with the love and sacrifices of their parents, their family. Where the Heart Seeks touches the listeners' hearts, evoking memories associated with parents, who sacrificed their whole lives to nurture the future of their children.

With the song Father, the once-famous MTV band and their friends express deep love for their parents. It also serves as a reminder to all fortunate children who still have fathers and mothers in their lives.

'Father' with its beautiful melody and meaningful lyrics caused a sensation on the internet a few years ago. It marked the reunion of the legendary MTV band.

Father's Gaze is a song closely associated with Lam Trường's name in his early singing days. This is a composition by musician Minh Châu that A2 performed very successfully at many music events. Father's Gaze is a song with simple and sincere lyrics about the father: 'A father's lifetime of toil is for the future of his child.

In the hopeful gaze, hoping for the success of tomorrow.' The gentle melody, delving into the heart, expressed by Lam Trường's poignant voice, will surely be a suitable song to listen to on Family Day.

Among the V-pop artists, Ngọc Sơn is one of the few artists with the most songs about fathers. The Image of the Elderly Father is one of Ngọc Sơn's most well-known songs about fathers, released in the CD Cute Love Confessions 2. Born in the early 2000s and performed by Ngọc Sơn many times, but to this day, The Image of the Elderly Father is still one of his most cherished songs.

A ballad with a poignant melody and simple, agonizing lyrics about a father who has gone away: “My father's gone, only now do I understand the unbearable pain”. The MV of this song also deeply moves viewers with the image of a gaunt father, caring for his son from childhood to adulthood, leaving the hometown to make a living in the city. The Image of the Elderly Father is a song that surely evokes emotions in all of us about our beloved fathers when we hear it.

Ode to Beloved Father is a rather 'stray' song among father-themed songs. While most songs about fathers have gentle, melancholic melodies, conversely, Ode to Beloved Father impresses listeners with its lively, youthful rhythm and tempo. But this uniqueness has deeply resonated with young audiences, making the song more profound and meaningful.

Lyrics:
'Many years have passed, life has changed so much

Looking at Father's gray hair now

After years of raising children to adulthood
Many hardships and sacrifices, Father's life always hopes for

To see his children live happily, grow up to be good people

From deep within your heart, thank you life!

'Father's hands once rocked the cradle to lull the child to sleep

Father's hands once led the child's first steps

How grateful I am, every day, for childhood by Father's side

The wonderful dreams always have Father's loving figure in them
'I worry that one day Father will be gone from my life

I worry that one day I won't be able to see:

The beloved face of the past

I ask for time

I beg time, please flow gently

So that I always have Father... by my side!'

'My Sister' tells the story of a sister who sacrifices her youth and happiness to care for her siblings. Sung with this heartfelt and poignant melody, many artists like Bằng Kiều, Quang Linh, and Tùng Dương have brought audiences their own emotional experiences and empathy.

However, according to many fans, the most successful rendition of this song was by the composer himself, Trần Tiến. The author of a series of countryside songs once confessed that the scariest moment in his career as a musician and singer was having to sing two songs, 'My Sister' and 'Footprint on the Sand,' live. Perhaps when those lyrics are sung, the heart of the former soldier relives the pain he experienced. The simple lyrics, storytelling-like singing style, and authentic music from the guitar dyed with the color of time are both tender and deeply poignant.

Perhaps nowhere else in the world does the concept of Motherland resonate as it does in Vietnam. And perhaps at no other time do the words 'Mother Vietnam' evoke such profound emotions as they do now. Allow me once to write about mothers, the heroic Vietnamese mothers, with all the gratitude accompanying national pride.'In the mortal world, there are two most sacred things: the Motherland and Mother. For the Motherland and for Mother, we can forget ourselves and charge into the fire. The noble and beloved image of Mother, brave, resilient, compassionate, and merciful, since the time of Âu Cơ the Great has continuously sheltered and united 54 brotherly ethnic groups, overcoming countless storms, and steadfastly preserving this sacred land throughout millennia of history, is the eternal symbol we revere, love, and honor.' For thousands of years, millions of mothers have gritted their teeth to bid farewell to their sons heading off to battle, only to preserve this land and sky. Millions of soldiers departing without return are a heart-wrenching pain that shatters a mother's heart. It is a glorious and heroic part of the nation's history, an immortal ode of pain and pride of Vietnamese mothers, and the reason for the endurance and immortality of the nation. Legend is the reverence of the people manifested in the aspirational sentiment, bearing the religious imprint as the symbol of the National Mother in social spiritual life. When Vietnamese people honor a hero, especially a hero of national liberation, they never forget their gratitude to the ancestors.