#24: Giáng Sol – Hey, I'm a female musician!
Posted: April 2, 2009
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And is that a big deal? Hey Press, stop asking me “What it is like to be a….female composer?”. Being a female artist is nothing weird!
Right, I am bored with all of her Press interviews. Key words for these questions are: “female composer”, “time to get married”, “what do you think of current Vietnamese music?’….repeated over and over.
She has many articles but her photos are limited and in either boring “studio style” or just very ordinary amateur ones. Hey, she is a star, come on, her images are so boring too. So as the day I purchased my camera, I called her: “Do you want good pictures?”. She said: “Oh, I am desperate for that!”.
Haha, I don’t say I am GOOD, but I at least I will try my best to take photos that would be completely different with those she took in the past (just like Tran Lap – the rocker). If it could not be different, it must be better!
And I was no kidding. I did. She loved my photos so much that at her recent wedding while of course I could not attend (I’m in New York now), she was so desperate of missing me that she had to ask my…ex-boyfriend to take the wedding photos for her, just like something to….replace me!
Well, ok, the photos might not be your favorites, but they are to her, and to me! At least she has better photos than ever before. She looks so much prettier, and that’s how she got a husband, hahahahaha.
As you see her real name: You see a music note in it already. Giang Sol: In Vietnamese, it means: The flat Sol”. She was born to be a musician, so stop asking her why she wanted to be a female composer!
Giac mo trua – Giang Sol – Khanh Linh
Chut nang vang bay – Giang Son – Tung Duong
She looks soft, sweet. As she saw the picture, she said: "This is me?"
If you've seen my entry about Tran Lap, the rocker, you might notice a picture of him sitting along the Sword Lake with a tower behind his back. That symbol is called "Turtle tower". I love that tower and I took all the musicians there to take photos with it! Now you see the tower in this picture too. The tower is also the symbol of Hanoi, our capital city.
Yeah, again, soft and sweet....
The day before we carried out this photo set. I said I wanted to take photos of her in very early morning at the Sword Lake, perhaps around 5 AM when you can catch some remaining foggy air of the night before, and also with fewer people. She agreed and we were so excited for that, she said she would come over my house to pick me up around 15 to 5. And I was waiting and waiting, until it was already 5h30, she had not yet appeared, then I had to call her, she said on the phone: "Oh, what time is it? why are you calling me? I am sleeping!" Oh my god! But still, we got there like over 6AM. There were crowds of people doing exercises around the Lake already, and the fog was somehow gone!
This is a nice one of her, but unfortunately it was not taken by me, hehe, I am quite jealous about that, the picture was taken by a friend of mine who joined the photo set with me!
Then she wanted to change clothes, she wanted to wear "ao dai", our traditional dress for women. One funny thing happened, she had not tried on the dress for a while, then she realized the dress was too tight for her, she was getting fatter and she could not close the buttons. Finally, we decided to take pictures still with her dress, but just only with "appropriate angles".
This is sure to be totally different with what she had ever appeared before - with "ao dai". She never had a photo with ao dai ever. As I was taking these photos on this bridge. My friend who joined the photo set had already gone to his office, so I had two big cameras on my hands (and my hands are very tiny if you know me). People were walking by and looking at me as if I was a chimpanzee escaped from the zoo. And it was so funny to see Sol walking forward and backward, her arms tried hard to cover the unbuttoned side of the dress, but sometimes she totally forgot about that, just kept on walking without noticing one side of her body was uncovered!
Later on, she changed clothes again, something close to a "modern style". We moved to the other side of the city where it has sky scrapers and western designs, just wanted to created a model image out of traditional old Hanoi. She said her x-bf would bring to us a big interesting dog, and she wanted to take pictures with the dog. And she was right, the dog was so much fascinated, he was big though just only 8 months old, and he behaved like a little child.
The color is natural, it was a good day and the grass was really in good color tone, hehe!
I'll post a series of her funny photos with the dog later, and with an interview with...the dog!
Gui.mp3 – Giang Sol – Bao Ngoc
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Tui da de y den Giang Sol tu khi doc blog Hakin. Tui biet GS co the khong quan tam den ai biet va khong biet den co ay. Nhung Hakin, nguoi dep long tui khong nhung khien nhieu nguoi thich co ay ma khien nhieu nguoi thich va co quan tam den mot so nguoi khac. Tai but: Nhac Phap hay qua cungxx
toi rat thik ha kin .toi muon noj chuyen voi co ay.toi rat wan tam toi nhung j co ay viet .toi thay rat hay va rat to mo.
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