cardin nguyen

hello everyone, welcome to my page. My official web page is cardinnguyen.info ....however this site is more on a personal side of me. As some of you already know, i am a signed artist with Asia Entertainmen. Under special circumstances such as Asia's theme on videos, i occasionally do have to perform songs from others. Other than that, don't classify me as ur typical vietnamese singer. Because i do write, produce/arrange my own songs, meaning melody and lyrics.My life worth much more than just being happy that i get my face on videos just so i can go on tours and shows/concerts on weekends and holidays. I'm on a mission to preserve, contribute, even dare to improve the vietnamese pop music. I despite and abhor, even ashamed to see my colleagues take songs somewhere back East, use it without persmission and don't even give credits for it's dued. Just because everyone does it and been doing it for so long, doesn't mean that it's right. Well i'm here to say that it ain't right. It's only music you said? What's the big deal right you said? No, it's not just only music, yes it's a form of entertainment, but along with theater, movies, art crafts, painting, etc...all these things represent who we are and where we came from. Therefore, it is a big deal. I refuse to bow down to be a part of a culture that only follow or bite others . I challennge all those and everyone of my colleague to bring back orginality into our Viet music. This is not an attack against anyone personally, and it's not about me rubbing my ability into everyone's face. But this is an attempt to contribute to help bring back our writters and musicians, put them back into work, they have been abused and forgotten for too long. It's time to pay them what they deserved. Even thoug i make music, i am also a huge fans of music. So as a listener, as growing up i often question the integrity of our singers and the people in the industry: are you telling me that i'm too dumb to know that this isn't your songs? and i'm too stupid that you're telling me that this is how our culture's art should be? This is how my heritage should be represented? China, Thai, Korea, Japanese, etc...don't get me wrong their musics are great. I'm not saying we should hate or discrimate them at all,and definitely NOt saying we should stop watching or listen to them. However i'm saying respect other cultures and heritage, but embrace yours!!! Let's have a thing we called VIET PRIDE, meaning Vietnamese artists/singers should mainly sing Vietnamese music which written by Vietnamese people. I can't change it by myself, and surely not this lifetime, but at least i want to get this thing roll in the right direction, Sy Dan started it, and i'm continue where he left off, and hopefully others will join in or follow to make our industry more up to date and put in our own stamps and trademarks. I hope and wish one day my kids and generations to come wil be able to crank up our music loud and proud without any embarassment or be classified as "biter"'s music. I've came to accept who i am as a person and learnt to work with what i got. So what you see is what you get, i'm very straight forward, not afraid to be blunt, and occastionally enjoy pushing the issues where others will not have the balls to put their ass on the line. It ain't a perfect world, so why "candy coated" it. No need to beat around bush, using four lines just to get one point accross is just ridiculous. God blessed my parents for given me the ability to do music, so ultimately i'm not here to sell personality nor my look, if you like me as a person, great..but if my music is the only connection between u and i, that's even better. If you don't like my music or can't even stand me, sony invented a button called "skip" or "fast forward", use it! And u shouldn't be reading this anyway. Y have u read this far? too much time on ur hand? loser!