Other music cafes

Many different cafes that cater have a variety of genres that conceptualizes pop music. Such places I visited include “Big 1 cafe” , “Music cafe 84” and “Quam Z cafe”. With various reasons as to why people frequent these cafes, including to enjoy the romantic musical atmosphere with a partner, and family gatherings for relaxation and entertainment, with songs like “Giac mo tinh yeu” (love dream), by popular singer My Tam, Besame Mucho ,a popular romantic Spanish song and “Bien Nho” (missing by the sea) from famous composer Trinh Cong Son. For singers, music cafes give them an avenue to showcase their talents and skills of both local and foreign music, and to create awareness, an instance being in “The Big One” cafe, one of the local singers there, Dong Lan, who was a foreign exchange student in France before, singing a French song “La vie en rose”. Hence the social function of musical performances in Vietnam as well, bringing people together to enjoy the musical atmosphere as well as to promote various degrees of Vietnamese and foreign popular music, as well as an economic entity for singers, managers and audiences. Thus, the shows the advent of new social space and economic entities presented by the trend of music cafes in Vietnam.