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Tiny Yong
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Tiny Yong, whose real name is Thien Huong Ton Nu Thi, is a French singer of Vietnamese origin, born February 8, 1944 in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Biography [edit | modify the code] Very young, she was brought up at the Bird Convent in Dalat, Vietnam. She is educated in Saigon, and is learning English, Spanish and French. In 1958 following the Burma War, his parents went into exile in France and settled in Paris in the 18th arrondissement. The same year she gave up her studies to devote herself to theater with lessons from Solange Sicart, while she made her debut in Albert Camus's play Les justes while playing the role of Phèdre. In 1960, Tiny performed the play by Jean Cocteau "L'épouse unjust suspectee", à la Tomate, but the success was not there, and after a month and a half of performances, the show was stopped. she decides to make a career in song, thanks to one of her brothers, Tiny Yong is hired at the restaurant "La table du Mandarin" then performs in the Henri Salvador show at the Alhambra, where she hosts evenings by interpreting Vietnamese songs, but also French song. In December 1960 Tiny was a guest on Aimée Mortimer’s “A School of Stars” program, broadcast on RTF where she was presented by André Claveau and Jean Piat. She played her first film role, where she was noticed by Robert Hossein who hired her for his detective film The Game of Truth, with Jeanne Valère and Paul Meurisse, screened in November 1961. In 1963, Henri Salvador, who had just founded his record company, had him record his first record, Tais toi petite folle, which Daniel Filipacchi presented on his program Salut les copains. In 1965, she took part in the Antibes Rose d'Or. On April 12, 1966, for the first wedding anniversary of Johnny Hallyday and Sylvie Vartan, Tiny participated in the photo-event designed by Jean-Marie Périer for the June issue of SLC, celebrating the magazine's four years, some time later , Tiny Yong performs on the liner Le France, on the occasion of her third Atlantic crossing to New York, she sings and is presented to the Queen of Sweden. In 1968, Tiny represented France at a Unicef gala At the end of 1968, the singer returned to Saigon, her hometown, where she stayed for a year and a half and definitively stopped her singing career for the restoration. In 1970, she returned to Paris and opened an Asian restaurant in Saint-Germain-des-Prés and married An Nguyen Ngog. They have a daughter, then settle in Pont-sur-Yonne in the name of Pont de Jade before reaching Montpellier where they open another restaurant.

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