Hồ Ngọc Hà

2001: Career debut

In 2001, she was chosen by director Luu Trong Ninh to portray a character in TV drama Hoa Co May, the drama was aired in Saturday Cinema Show on VTV3 at the time. Her first on-screen debut is Huong - an American-Vietnamese girl with tough personality. At that time, she was studying Piano Major at Military Art and Culture College. Although her acting career was short-lived, the audience was still impressed by her.

In 2005, after the release of 39 Degree of Love and Right Heart Campaign, she temporarily stopped acting to focus on singing instead.

2004: Debut album 24 Hours 7 Days

She came to Hanoi and met musician Huy Tuan in order to discuss the implementation of her first album. After that, Huy Tuan began working on her debut album as a producer, which was called "24 Hours 7 Days", which was released in 2004 by Viet Tan Studio. The songs in the album were produced by Tuan and were composed by famous songwriters such as Duc Tri, Nguyen Xinh Xo, Hong Kien, Duong Thu, and An Hieu. In the album, the song with same name as the title gained a lot of success and was performed by Hà on various music shows. In spite of much investment, this album did not make much resonance for Hà because the album was not widely advertised and there was no promotional music video, until her nude "art" photos were posted online; then her name was said to be "floating like alcohol". In addition, that was when feelings emerged between Hà and musician Duc Tri. Tri is a close friend of musician Huy Tuan, so the album used his song "Today I Come". After that, Tuan introduced two acquaintances and their feelings at the time were a great concern of the media.

2005: Va Em Da Yeu and start acting again.

She signed a record deal with songwriter Duc Tri's Music Faces Records, they then worked together for her second album following Huy Tuan's advice. Her next album title is Va Em Da Yeu (And I'm In Love), which was released in June 2005 by Music Faces Records and Phuong Nam Films. The album was well made primarily focusing on Ho Ngoc Ha's strong image. There were 5 songs in the album composed by Phuong Uyen, Ho Quang Minh and Duc Tri, the 5 other songs were her old songs remixed. Two hit songs of the album were "Dem Nghe Tieng Mua" and "Va Em Da Yeu" helped Ho Ngoc Ha become well-known afterward.

After the release of second album, she came back to acting in TV drama version of 39 Degree of Love with 16 episodes - which used to be a 90 minute in length movie released in several Vietnam box office previously. The drama was not as impressive as expected and received lots of negative critics from the audiences. VnExpress said the movie was a "messy magic show" with "terrible cut from the original". Later, she joined the movie title Right Heart Campaign released in June 10th, 2005. On the contrary of 39 Degree of Love, this movie gained plenty of positive reviews from the audiences, Hoai Nam from Tuoi Tre Newspaper wrote a list of "5 reasons that you should watch Right Heart Campaign" along with many compliments from the audience toward her acting. After this movie, she stopped to focus on singing (it was not until 2015, she made a cameo in the movie "Hy Sinh Doi Trai" by Tan Beo which was released in August 21st, 2015)

2006: Muon noi voi anh and Ao Anh

Before running her tour in the US, she and other artists together worked on her third album named "Muon noi voi anh" (I Wanna Tell You). The album was released in December 15th, 2006 by Music Faces Records and Galaxy Studio in Vietnam and later on iTunes in the US in December 19, 2016 by Music Faces Records. Huy Tuan and Duc Tri co wrote the album, while Ho Ngoc Ha also wrote the head single herself and two old songs added from last two albums. There were 3 hit songs in this album including "Muon Noi Voi Anh", "Giac mo chi la giac mo" and "Doi bong vui".

During that time, Ho Ngoc Ha and Duc Tuan released an album named Ao Anh which was a collection of classic songs from famous musicians such as Y Van, Van Phung, Ngo Thuy Mien, Pham Manh Cuong, Do Le, Trong Khuong and Huynh Anh. The album was released in Vietnam by Music Faces Records and in the US in October 9th, 2006 by Music Published and Pops Worldwide.

2007-2009: Khi ta yeu nhau, The First Single and Va Em Da Yeu Tour

In 2007, she recorded her next album Khi Ta Yeu Nhau, released by Music Faces Records. However, the album wasn't widely advertised and promoted, thus there was no hit in the album, therefore it was a flop of her career. Also in that year, on Suc Song Moi Show, host Thanh Mai and Trung Dung carried an interview about her love and career. However, it was said by a source that Ha had already broken up with Duc Tri for 1 year. This stirred lots of confusion but she officially made the announcement regarding the rumor: "Right now, I'm being at the peaceful stage of my life. Lots of people are curious of why I look so happy though I've had a break up recently. But it's my real feeling. I love with all of my heart therefore when I break up, I regret nothing". Years after the official break up, she still kept on working with Music Faces Records.

In 2009, she was officially back to the stage with the album The First Single after 2 years in hiatus. This time especially, Duc Tri wasn't a part of the album's production, it was by many young musicians such as Duong Khac Linh, Hoang Anh and Hung Lan instead. Many copies were sold and received plenty of positive reviews from the audience. "Xin Hay Thu Tha" featuring rapper Suboi is considered one of the best songs of her career. She performed the English version of "Xin Hay Thu Tha" named "My Apology" at Asia Song Festival in Korea.

According to Korean audience, this is the first time ever Vietnam representative defeated other Asian opponents due to her charming look. She was compared with My Tam and Ho Quynh Huong who joined last years.

At that time, she became brand ambassador of Sunsilk Vietnam. In order to promote Sunsilk and her album, she ran Va Em Da Yeu Tour across Vietnam starting in September 2009. The ticket was sold by exchanging Sunsilk shampoo containers method. The tour started from September 27, 2009 in Ho Chi Minh City to October 10, 2009 in Can Tho, along with many guest artists such as Dam Vinh Hung, Dan Truong, Phan Dinh Tung, Quang Vinh, Pham Anh Khoa, Cao Thai Son, Lam Truong and Nguyen Vu. Va Em Da Yeu show was live on HTV7 and Sunsilk's official website.

2010-early 2011: Having baby and come back

In mid 2010, it was rumored that Ho Ngoc Ha was being pregnant with businessman Nguyen Quoc Cuong. She admitted to be pregnant shortly afterward, regarding the father's identity of the baby which she avoided mentioning on the news, however she hoped Cuong would be a responsible father and husband for her and her baby. Lots of sources said that Ho Ngoc Ha dated Cuong for money and fortune since Cuong is widely known as the son of the successful businesswoman Nguyen Thi Nhu Loan, one of the richest businesswomen in Vietnam with billion Vietnam Dong worth of property. Following this incident, it was revealed that she used to get married at the age of 16.

After giving birth, she came back with her new album titled Tim Lai Giac Mo in 2010. She recorded the album while being pregnant and the release was made right after giving birth. This was the first album without Duc Tri and also the last album released by Music Faces Records, Duc Tri openly supported her departure and shared his thought: "It's totally normal when she leaves. Personally, the most important thing is what is remained between those who stay and those who leave". The album was released in Vietnam in July 10, 2011 and in July 21st, 2011 in the US on iTunes. The album included songs written by songwriters Nguyen Hong Thuan, Quoc An, Hoang Anh, Duong Khac Linh and Hoang Huy Long. Especially, "Them Mot Lan Vo Tan" was composed and written by Ho Ngoc Ha herself. However, the song was showed to allegedly have lots of resemblances with Kylie Minogue's Red Blooded Woman. Speaking of this incident, she said that two songs were completely different, thus she wasn't responsible for the remix whatsoever.

In the promotion for the new album, she continuously cooperated with Sunsilk to hold a small show Tim Lai Giac Mo in 2010, with same guest artists like the previous show but this time, V-Music band and Ha Anh Tuan were newly added.

Ho Ngoc Ha and V-Music band partnered up for their album Ngay Hanh Phuc (Happy Day) released in August 2010 in Vietnam; August 2nd on iTunes. This was her second duet album and the first song without the production of Duc Tri and Music Faces Records, the third time collaboration with Viet Tan Studio. Nikkon was the sponsor of this album.

2011: Invincible

Until mid 2011, she released two new singles "Sao Ta Lang Im" (written and composed by Nguyen Hong Thuan) and "Noi Nho Day Voi" (featuring Noo Phuoc Thinh) which both made remarkable moves on various music charts. Shortly afterward, the ballad single "Mot Lan Cuoi Thoi" was released as an opening for her sixth album Invincible - Se mai ben nhau which was scheduled to be released at the end of 2011. This album was the collaboration between her, Duong Khac Linh and Thanh Bui significantly working on R&B, album's master was done in Studio Syd (Australia) by Lenon Zervos (this studio has previously worked with Lady Gaga, Kanye West, U2...). The head single "Invincible" was filmed in Hollywood Studio, America which was her most invested music video of all times, the plot of the music video was generated by Ha herself in which she portrayed an alien coming back to the Earth, to rescue her lover from the enemy. Danny Do directed the music video but a lot said that this video resembled Katy Perry's ET. The second single Tu Ngay Anh Di (composed by Nguyen Hoang Duy) was specially aired on YanTV. The director was Tran Dinh Hien who had had lots of awards, in this video she portrayed Egyptian Queen Cleopatra, this is an unique portray and also the first time show up in Vietnamese music industry.

Her 2011 live concert occurred on December 15th at Lan Anh Club - Ho Chi Minh City. This was the biggest liveshow of her 8 year career and directed by Viet Tu. The budget was officially announced as 5 billion Vietnam Dong. In the liveshow, she performed lots of her songs and at the same time satisfied the audience with her well prepared performances. 25 songs were included in the liveshow which impressed the audience greatly.

The liveshow was nominated at Devotion Award 2011 in April 2012.

2012: The Voice's Coach and The Second Single

Following multiple successes throughout the years, Ho Ngoc Ha and V.Music band released a new project I Love You. I Love You is the collection of 8 songs about love composed by: Nguyen Hong Thuan, Quoc An, Phuc Bo, Phuong Uyen and Kien Tran.

Vietnam was the second country that was allowed to produce "The Voice" after Korea. The judge included Dam Vinh Hung, Ho Ngoc Ha, Thu Minh and Tran Lap. In order to become one of the judges, she had spent lots of time and effort, also had a small vocal cord surgery.

In 2012, she won "Most Favorable Female Singer" award at HTV Award.

She is also the judge of Centaur Dance Showdown - an international dance competition. She was invited to the show where Vietnam team competed with other teams from different countries, along with Singaporean hip hop dancer Sheikh Haikel and Japanese breakdancer Katsuyuki Ishikawa.

In September 2012, while being a judge of The Voice Vietnam, she surprisingly released a new single Dan Do including two songs Dan Do (composed by Phuong Uyen) and Chon Giau Mot Tinh Yeu (featuring Le Quyen) composed by Luong Bang Quang. Beside, Runaway was also attached in the single which is the English version of her song Mai Mai Ve Sau.

She shared her thought about this single as: "Life is colorful and youth is dreamy, however when you grow up, simplicity is the most important thing in life. With this single, I want to present that simplicity with foremost depth within. From music video to CD design, which should be felt within everyone. Hopefully the audience will have chance to discover themselves, get to know new things, who knows if they could find themselves in my songs. Don't walk in the same path of emotions and music genres"

Dan Do was chosen to be head single. Before the release, Ha and her team kept revealing sneak peek of the song which made it become top search. However, the audience was somewhat disappointed once it was officially released due to its unique rhythm and lyrics. Ha herself claimed that Dan Do is not a catchy song and it needs time. She shared: "Lots of people wonder why I've chosen difficult paths this time, instead of the same old style; personally thinking, being safe in music is boring"

2013: Got To Dance judge

Ho Ngoc Ha walked with supermodel Thanh Hang in an enormous dress inspired by poisonous mushroom designed by Cong Tri, in 11th Dep Fashion Show. She was a judge of Got To Dance along with dander Alfredo Torres, Vietnamese-American hip hop dancer Dumbo and dance choreographer Tran Ly Ly. She is the face of Samsung and many other advertisements.

In August 5th, 2013, at Asian Music Stars Show held by China's CCTV with the participation of many singers from 10 countries and regions, she performed live two songs Runaway (Mai Mai Ve Sau) and Hay Thu Tha Cho Em (Please forgive me).

In August 12th, 2013, Hay Thu Tha Cho Em (composed by Duong Khac Linh, written by Hoang Huy Long) and Giau Anh Vao Noi Nho (Chau Dang Khoa) were released in two different music styles. Her unique voice was concentrated with nice dance choreography and her perfect figure. There were three music videos in three different styles for this song, which had hardly happened in Vietnam music industry. In the making of these versions, she and 50 people crew kept working in 4 days at studiosin District 2 & 9 (Ho Chi Minh City) for 15 different sets, 12 uniquely designed costumes and 1 month for post production afterward. At 16th Green Waves Award, she won "Single of the Year" Award for Hay Thu Tha Cho Em and Top 10 Favorite Singers.

2014: X-Factor and Ho Ngoc Ha Live Concert 2014

In May 12th, 2014, she released the album Moi Tinh Xua which was inspired by classic style from 10 years ago. The album included 11 songs composed by Duc Tri, Nguyen Hong Thuan, Chau Dang Khoa, Pham Toan Thang,...with classic love song vibe. "It could be said that I use these 11 songs to tell a story about my 10 year including career, love and failure" - she shared.

She got a deal to be a judge of X-Factor's first season in Vietnam. Despite poor rating, she still contributed her best and became the most favorable judge among the jury. She also gave a hand to help Giang Hong Ngoc win the top prize. At the same time, she released the music video for My Baby (composed by Do Hieu).

In November 20th, 2014, her Live Concert was held in Gem Center, Saigon. Talking about this liveshow, she revealed to be performing musical play. Her 8 hits were linked together to make a 40 minute long emotional musical story with powerful and beautiful choreography by John Huy Tran and Ngoc Tu. She even decided to invite John-Paul "JP" San Pedro - a famous American dancer and choreographer who used to work with Janet Jackson, Jennifer Lopez, Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera, Miley Cyrus,...to be a part of this liveshow. Live Concert 2014 was the milestone of her 10 year singing career.

2015-2016: Love Songs and The Face Vietnam

After teasing behind-the-scene photos, the producer of the movie Hy Sinh Doi Trai continued to reveal more detail about the movie. Along with Tran Bao Son, director Luu Huynh's new movie was greatly contributed by 30 artists in plenty different fields, including Ly Hung, Phuoc Sang, Binh Minh, Than Thuy Ha, Dinh Y Nhung, Tuyen Map, Andrea Aybar, Cat Phuong,...among the cast, "King of the Box Office" Thai Hoa and "Queen of Entertainment" Ho Ngoc Ha were announced to be participating in the movie. She originally debuted as a model-actress and become well-known by TV drama Hoa Co May and the movie 39 Degrees of Love in 2000s. After switching to singing, she had never come back to acting . In Hy Sinh Doi Trai, her role was a cameo.

At the end of April 2016, she officially became one of three coaches of The Face Vietnam with Miss Universe Pham Huong and Miss Ao Dai Lan Khue. Her team member Phi Phuong Anh won the first prize.

After releasing two singles Destiny and What is Love? with Toi Loi. In May 2016, after a big tabloids targeting at her personal life, she held Love Songs concert in Ho Chi Minh City, which marked her first ever appearance after big scandal of being a "third wheel". Several months later, Love Songs concert was held in Da Nang and Ha Noi; Houston, San Diego, San Jose, Denver, Dallas, Atlanta (America) and Australia, with another 4 concerts in Europe. Later, Love Song - Ca Mot Troi Thuong Nho concert was held in August 22nd, 2017 at Gem Center.

2017-present

She has dated actor Kim Ly ever since, after tabloids about her divorce with ex husband Nguyen Quoc Cuong, being a third wheel with businessman Chu Dang Khoa and the rivalry with singer-actress Minh Hang in The Face Vietnam.

Style of performance

In an interview, she said that after seeing Beyonce performing in Bangkok, Thailand, she began to "learn Beyonce's performing style" and shared that Beyonce is "my favorite artist".

Zing Music Award 2012 awarded her "Singer of The Year". Her dance choreography at Asian Song Festival 2009 was so impressive.

Image and Fashion Icon

Ho Ngoc Ha used to be considered one of new generation divas and indeed was nominated for Vietnam Diva - 2005 New Generation. However, she withdrew her name from the list herself saying "she hasn't greatly contributed anything".

She was named "Queen of Advertisement" when lots of brands and companies chose her to be the face for their brands. YanTV Channel had her as their ambassador.

Television

• The Voice (2012) - Judge (one season)
• Got To Dance (2013) - Judge (Season 1)
• X-Factor (2014) - Judge (Season 1)
• The Remix (2015 - 2016) - Judge (Season 1 - 2)
• Vietnam Super Model (2016) - Judge
• The Face Vietnam (2016) - Mentor (Season 1)