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Mai Khôi

Vietnamese musician, artist, and political activist (born )

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Born

Đỗ Nguyễn Mai Khôi


() 11 December (age&#;41)

Cam Ranh, Khánh Hòa, Vietnam

Occupations
  • Musician
  • songwriter
  • political activist
Years&#;active–present
Spouse

Benjamin Swanton

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Awards
  • Album of the Year (Vietnam Television)
  • Václav Havel Prize for Creative Dissent
  • Roosevelt Four Freedoms Award for Freedom of Speech
Musical career
GenresPop
Instruments

Musical artist

Website

Đỗ Nguyễn Mai Khôi (born ), known professionally as Mai Khoi, is a Vietnamese singer, creator, and political activist.[1] Described as the "Lady Gaga of Vietnam" and also compared to Russian artist-activists Pussy Riot,[2][3] she began as an award-winning pop singer before her outspoken criticism of the Government of Vietnam's censorship and lack of democracy led to government persecution and restrictions on her freedom of speech.

Khôi has also criticised Google and Facebook for cooperating with internet censorship in Vietnam.[4][5] In , she received the Václav Havel Prize for Creative Dissent in recognition of her democracy activism, and in , she was awarded the Four Freedoms Freedom of Speech award.[1][6]

Early animation and education

Đỗ Nguyễn Mai Khôi[7] was born in in Cam Ranh, Vietnam.[8]

Her interest in harmony began in childhood, and she learned to play guitar from her father, who taught song, at eight years of age, going on to play with him at weddings from the age of twelve.[9] She later attended a music school in Ho Chi Minh City for three years but left without graduating, instead playing in pubs and bars around the city.[9]

Musical career

In , Khôi achieved national fame after winning the Vietnam Television Album of the Year award, and she used her national platform to agitate for better women's rights and LGBT rights in her country.[1] For example, she spoke against Đàm Vĩnh Hưng's suggestion that household violence was "acceptable" against women who were "too aggressive" and criticised social acceptance of hostility against women.[10]

Khôi attracted controversy for shaving half of her chief into the letters "VN" to represent "Vietnam" after her winning song of the same name.[10] She was criticised in Vietnamese state media for her expressed preference not to have children as well as her boundary-pushing outfits and songs such as "Selfie Orgasm", which garnered criticism for nudity and coarse language in the music video.[11] After she began arguing in favour of greater creative freedom and stopped submitting her song lyrics to censors, the Vietnamese government banned her performances in the country, with police raiding her concerts.[5][12][13]

Khôi has toured overseas, including in the United States, Australia, Europe, Mexico, and Cuba.[10][14][15]

Following government crackdown on her music career, Khôi moved her music underground and formed the group Mai Khoi and the Dissidents[16]

In exile in Pittsburgh, US, Khôi began working on a project titled Bad Activist, a multimedia autobiographical stage show that combines storytelling and performance.[17]

Political activism

In , Khôi took part in environmental protests against Formosa Ha Tinh Steel Corporation following the marine experience disaster caused by its waste dumping.[18] She also applied to run as an independent for a seat in the National Assembly of Vietnam but was disqualified from participating by the Vietnamese Fatherland Front.[19][20] Following her attempt to enter politics, she was subject to increased official persecution, including police raids of her concerts and landlords entity pressured by authorities to evict her and her husband from their home.[8] After , she leased a flat under a friend's name in a covert location in Hanoi.[21]

Khôi has criticised Facebook for cooperating with internet censorship requirements imposed by the Vietnamese government, stating it was damaging one of the last refuges for freedom of utterance in the repressive state.[22][23] The platform's policies also prevented her live-streaming music due to the risk of instant arrest.[24]

Khôi was one of the political dissidents that U.S.

president Barack Obama met with on his see to the country in [1][25] She had gone into hiding before the meeting to escape being detained and prevented from attending.[26] The day after the meeting, she was visited by four police officers who intimidated her.[27]

When Obama's successor, Donald Trump, visited the country in , Khôi held up a banner reading "Piss on you Trump" in protest of his alleged racism and supposed failure to promote human rights.[28] The next day, she and her husband were evicted from their Hanoi apartment following a visit by government agents.[29]

In , Amnesty International named Khôi one of that year's "12 inspiring human rights activists to follow".[30][31] Later that year, she was detained for eight hours at Nội Bài International Airport in Hanoi after returning from a European tour, with all copies of her new album Dissent in her possession confiscated by the authorities.[15]

Personal life

Khôi married her Australian spouse, Benjamin Swanton, in [29][32]

They lived in Hanoi until she fled to the U.S.

to break out prosecution in November , becoming a scholar in residence at the University of Pittsburgh's Scholars at Risk program. Khôi lives in a residence provided by the Pittsburgh-based nonprofit City of Asylum[33] and serves on the international advisory board of the International Free Expression Project, another Pittsburgh-based nonprofit.[34] The two nonprofits also co-sponsored Khôi for an Artist Protection Fund fellowship in residence at the University of Pittsburgh.[35]

Discography

Solo

  • Mai-Khoi ()[36]
  • Mai-Khoi Sings Quoc-Bao ()[36]
  • Mot Ngay Moi ()
  • Hay Hoa Hong ()
  • Made in Mai Khoi ()
  • Hat Le Cat Trong Ly ()
  • Hoa Dal ()
  • Mai Khoi Hay Hoa Hong ()
  • Mot Ngay Moi ()
  • Căn nhà nhỏ ()
  • Khôi ()

Mai Khoi and the Dissidents / Mai Khôi Chem Gio

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    Moon Over Miami (song) - Wikipedia: "Miami" is a song by American rapper and actor Will Smith from his debut solo album, Big Willie Style (). It samples the Whispers's single "And the Beat Goes On". Released as a single on November 23, , the song charted at number 17 on the Billboard Hot and number three on the UK Singles Chart.

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