Andy Quach

 Andy Quách (1978-     ) is a popular overseas Vietnamese singer of hip hop, R&B and pop music.

Born as Tran Quang Giang on December 8, 1978 in Ho Chi Minh City to Chinese-Vietnamese parents, he is the older of two sons.  In 1995, he and his family left Vietnam and resettled in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.  While in high school, Andy Quach excelled in performing arts, as well as in sports particularly soccer.  After graduating from high school, he began to pursue his career in music.  In 2000, he met and fell in love with a fellow Vietnamese-American singer also based in Philadelphia named Cát Tiên.  The two began performing often as a duo at various gigs and events within the Vietnamese-American community of Philadelphia.  In 2002, he followed Cát Tiên to Southern California where she had just been discovered and signed by the label, Vân Sơn Entertainment.  As her career immediately took off,  Andy Quach continued as a struggling artist for the next two years in Southern California.  Frustrated with his career going nowhere, he had seriously contemplated packing up and returning home to Philadelphia when finally in 2004 the executives at Vân Sơn Entertainment decided to give Andy Quach his big break.  That year he made his debut in music video on volume 26 of Vân Sơn Entertainment's live show series, Vân Sơn in Little Saigon, as part of a quartet with Cát Tiên, Johnny Trí Nguyễn (who was then known as Minh Trí) and Việt Thi performing a medley of Euro New Wave cover songs from the 1980s.  Although he had managed to spark a bit of attention from viewer audiences with his charm and dashing good looks, Vân Sơn had felt that Andy Quach was then an artist still at the stage of development not yet ready to take on the spotlight as a solo performer.  For the next two volumes of Vân Sơn Entertainment's live show series, Andy Quach appeared performing a pair of widely received duets with Cát Tiên, Tình Mãi Cách Xa and Ngày Chia Tay, both of which were written by Huỳnh Nhật Tân.  The following year, Andy Quach made his first solo performance on volume 31 of Vân Sơn Entertainment's live show series, Vân Sơn in Philipines và Người Việt Còn Lại, with the song, Khi Anh Bên Em, which would turn him into a bonafide pop star in the overseas Vietnamese music industry.

During his tenure at Vân Sơn Entertainment, Andy Quach had risen to be one of the label's most popular music video performers.  He became known as a teenage heartthrob especially to the Vietnamese female audiences worldwide putting him in the ranks of his predecessors also from the Vân Sơn Entertainment label such as Lương Tùng Quang and Nguyễn Thắng.  Andy Quach recorded a couple of highly successful solo studio albums released by Vân Sơn Entertainment, K.O. (Vol. 1) (2005) and Showtime (2006).  Among his most popular songs recorded under the Vân Sơn Entertainment label included his solo performances such as Tình Cuồng Say, Giấc Mơ Một Cuộc Tình, Nụ Hôn Biệt Ly, Yêu Xin Chớ Dối Gian, Baby I Love You, Caravan of Life, Đã Yêu Em Rồi, Đã Biết Khi Yêu and Mất Nhau Từ Đây.  Equally successful were the duets recorded with his then girlfriend, Cát Tiên, as viewer audiences took notice of their apparent chemistry together, most notably in their performance of the song, Ngày Em Đi (written by Huỳnh Nhật Tân) featured on volume 40 of Vân Sơn Entertainment's live show series, Vân Sơn in Dallas - Những Chuyện Tình Bất Tử (2009), which commemorated the ending of their relationship.  Andy Quach had also recorded several duets with various other artists while signed with Vân Sơn Entertainment including Nguyễn Thắng and Linda Chou, whom he has often been given credit for having helped in the launching of her career.

In 2008, Andy Quach formed his own music production label, AQ Entertainment.  He has since released a series of studio albums including AQ3 (2010), Crossroads (2012), Forever Love (2013), Play Me - Dance Remixes (2015) and Andy and Cat (2017), a duet album recorded with Cát Tiên.  In recent years, Andy Quach has also recorded many of his own written and composed songs.  He had also appeared on volume 73 of the popular live show video series produced by Asia Entertainment, Mùa Hè Rực Rỡ (2013).










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• 30 Sexiest Vietnamese Celebs of 2016
• 20 Hottest Viet Celebs of 2017
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