Cao Thai Son

Cao Thai Son (1985-    ) is a famous Vietnamese pop singer who during the peak of his popularity had made the annual Làn Sóng Xanh (Green Wave Music Awards) list of top ten singers of Vietnam for four consecutive years from 2009 until 2012.

He was born on September 22, 1985 in Hanoi.  At the age of 17, Cao Thai Son began singing professionally.  After two years of performing for local gigs in and around Hanoi, it seemed as if his singing career was going nowhere.  That was until he entered the Sao Mai Điểm Hẹn talent show in 2004, then the second most popular televised talent competition program in Vietnam behind Liên Hoan tiếng hát Truyền Hình Toàn Quốc, as a contestant competing against the likes of other hopefuls such as Kasim Hoang Vu, Nguyen Tung Duong and Nguyen Hong Nhung.  Although Cao Thai Son was voted third place by the audience qualifying him for the semi-finals round, he decided to withdraw from the competition as the national exposure he had been given on the talent show landed him a 5-year contract with HT Productions headed by Hoang Tuan, one of Hanoi's most prominent music producers.  The first prize winner of the Sao Mai Điểm Hẹn talent show that year was Kasim Hoang Vu.  

After two years under contract with HT Productions, in 2006 Cao Thai Son abruptly requested out of his contract to form his own label, CTS Productions.  He rose to national fame with his interpretations of hit songs such as Con Đường Mưa, Tình Yêu Trở Lại, Pha Lê Tím, Yêu Thương Quay Về, Phút Giây Đầu Tiên (a duet with Luong Bich Huu) and Nhớ Rất Nhớ (a duet with Bao Thy).  Among his most successful albums include Dù Thế Nào Đi Nữa (2005), Không Thể Quên (2006), Cool Boy (2007), Phút Cuối (2008), Điều Ngọt Ngào Nhất (2012) and Người Cũ Còn Thương (2016).  

Cao Thai Son had joined the ranks of such superstars as Dam Vinh Hung, Ho Ngoc Ha, My Tam and Ho Quynh Huong in the Vietnamese popular music industry when he made the list from Làn Sóng Xanh, Vietnam's equivalent of the Billboard Music Awards, of top ten Vietnamese singers of the year in 2009.   For the next three consecutive years, he would continue to make the list.  During this period, his popularity had allowed him to tour all over Vietnam, as well as for overseas Vietnamese audiences in Europe, Australia and North America. 

In 2012, Cao Thai Son's name would be blasted all over the tabloids of Vietnam in scandal with an alleged former gay relationship between an overseas Vietnamese named Adam Nguyen and himself.  Adam Nguyen had come forward to the Vietnamese press with alleged claims of being jilted and cheated out of money by Cao Thai Son.  Furthermore, Adam Nguyen had supplied intimate photographs and video clips of the two of them.  Cao Thai Son, to this day, has denied such allegations.


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