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Dalena: Lệ Đá
After my mother passed, I went through her room and found my pictures she had kept.
Don ho vietnamese singerAs I flipped through them, I came across a snapshot of me taken with Dalena. The photo made me nostalgic and wondered what Dalena has been up to all these years. Has she left the Vietnamese-American entertainment behind? I tried to google her name, but nothing about her came up.
I miss her. Like millions of Vietnamese Americans, I fell in love with “the blond beauty who sings flawless Vietnamese.” Beyond her singing talent, I had a deep respect for her English translations, which seemed to be underappreciated, of popular Vietnamese ballads.
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I went back to my CD collection and realized that I have a few of her solo albums and a handful of her collaborative efforts with other Vietnamese singers including Don Hồ and Mỹ Huyền. I pulled out, Lệ Đá (Stone’s Tears), her debut for Thúy Nga Production, and relived the moment.
In the opening title track, a soulful ballad by Trần Trịnh and Hà