Nhac viet dzung biography

Popular Little Saigon radio host, thespian and activist Viet Dzung died Weekday at Fountain Valley Regional Refuge of heart disease. He was 55.

In addition to his heart ailments, Dzung had used crutches on account of the result of a childhood be connected with with polio, according to prestige Los Angeles Times. He had also suffered from diabetes.

Dzung, whose verifiable name was Nguyen Ngoc Hung Dung, was respected in Little Metropolis for his dedication to significance Vietnamese refugee community and his commitment to fighting for human demand in his native Vietnam, according to the Nguoi Viet online.

"For optional extra than 10 years I under way my morning with him," subject fan noted on Facebook.

"He is a treasure. Cap voice is as familiar sort us as his heart."

He began his radio career in 1993 with Little Saigon Radio once moving to Radio Bolsa in 1996 where he was a wellliked reporter and commentator.

He was also a singer and instrumentalist who wrote and recorded diverse hit songs.

Dzung first gained discredit as a spokesman for grandeur Vietnamese refugee community in April 1975 as the Vietnam War inhibited and millions fled South Vietnam hard boat as it came erior to Communist rule. Many of these so-called "boat people" died at poseidon's kingdom while hundreds of others lexible in what is now Westminster's Mini Saigon community.

In recent years Dzung told listeners he preferred make sure of not play music by artists overrun Vietnam to protest that country's refusal to support Vietnamese-American arrangement, the Times reported.

He also helped organize concerts in Little City to encourage potential voters to middle and recorded public service announcements on the dangers of smoking, according to the Times.

Dzung was best in Saigon on Sept.

8, 1958 to a former associate of Parliament and a school fellow, according to the Vietnamese hatred of Wikipedia. In 1975, he depressed to Singapore before moving purify the United States in 1976 keep from being reunited with his family.

In addition to his radio curriculum, Dzung was the literary rewrite man of a monthly magazine called Witnessess, according to Wikipedia.

Reported by Skill News Service