I was born in Hanoi, Vietnam.

When I was 12 years old, I moved to Germany “for a better education,” as told by my father. At the time, it was very difficult for me to find friends in a new country with a totally different language and culture.

Most kids had already established great friendships at school. For me, integrating into the new culture was hard and it was even harder since I was moving from one school to another due to Germany’s system: elementary (Hauptschule ) - secondary ( Realschule ) – Highschool (Gymnasium ).

After trying all the sports (table tennis, basketball, football and volley ball), I finally found out about dancing when the school’s dance club was auditioning for new talents.

Before joining the club, I didn’t know ballroom dancing even existed. For my parents, dancing was considered to be a "luxury thing" for people who have money. I grew up in a very poor family; everyone would depend on the small amount of money that came from my parents selling food on the street.

 

My siblings and I had to wake up at 5AM everyday to help set the place where my mother sold soup for the whole day.  So it was almost impossible for me to convince them that dancing was a sport and that's what I like to do. It was a tough fight between my parents and me. After all, my advise to anyone who chases their dreams is to fight harder for it.

It’s understandable for parents to want their kids to have a better life than they did. Because of this idea, it's often time parents don’t realize their kids’ special talents and accept them to build a career out of these talents . I’m not saying anything bad about my parents, they are great… I love them… without them I wouldn’t have many opportunities in my whole life. 

I moved to Germany, learned German as a second language, and took European culture and lifestyle mixed with Asian/Vietnamese culture as a new inspiration to my life. I received so many opportunities to travel around the world through my dancing. It showed me how much you could learn from other people with different cultures and mentality. It also gave me the courage to begin a new life in America as an artist with new hope and new achievements.

Before I learned how to dance I was very shy. I was not able to participate in a crowd because I was very scared of people judging me for being different. However, dancing doesn’t judge who and how old you are. Dancing made me more confident as well as gave me a strong will and a discipline to conquer all problems in my life. Dancing encourages me to dream and pushes me work harder for what I believe in. Every day is a new challenge to make the right choice for your life. I can only say it for myself that DANCING has always been my best mentor. We all have problems in life… many people look to escape from it all, but I learned how to deal with it and to discover myself every day. We can only be happy and survive if we accept who we are and deal adversity. I believe in changing for the better and making other people around us more comfortable and happier with us.

I can't tell how far I can go with my dreams in the future, but one thing I can confirm now is: as long as you believe in yourself and in what you do, you will make it!!!

There are shorter and longer ways to achieve your dreams. Only if you are ready to go for your dreams, your dreams will be there to welcome you.

Every dream can come true!

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DANCE EDUCATION AND RESULTS

• ​1994 - Dance education in Standard and Latin in Dance education center Stuttgart, Germany

• 1998 - Start to compete international competition representing for Germany

• 1999 - South German Champion in International Latin ( Cha Cha, Samba, Rumba, Paso Doble and Jive) and Ballroom ( Waltz, Tango, Foxtrot, Viennese Waltz and Quickstep )

• 2000 - Change the dance education to London.

• Coaching teachers: Tone Nyhagen, Espen Salberg, Olga Müller Omeltchenko, Hans Reinhardt Galke, Ralf Lepehne and Donnie Burns

• 2001 - Member of the German National Team under 11 best dance couples of Germany. Dance Workshop in Jazz , Ballet and Hip Hop from specialist

• 2002 - Started teaching and coaching lessons for competitive couples in Germany. Teaching license from International Dance Sport Federation IDSF

• 2004 - Go back to Vietnam in recommendation of Shawn Tay ( Presidium member of World Dance Sport Federation WDSF) to introduce Vietnam to join the WDSF.  Teaching different dance sport lectures in Vietnam

• 2005- 2007 - Competition Tour through Europe and Asia. Finalist of: Belgium Championship, Holland Championship and Singapore Lion City Championship in International Latin.

• 2008 - Opening the first Believe & Dance Studio in Saigon ( Quan Phu Nhuan ) Vietnam,

• Traveling between Vietnam and USA for keep up my own dancing in USA and teaching in Vietnam

• 2008 - 2009 – Decide to move to America , concentrating on my own competition dancing and teaching Ballroom, Jazz, Hip Hop and competing in professional Ballroom.

• 2010 - Participate in most US favorite reality dance TV Show ” So You Think Can Dance ” on FOX top 24

• - Auditioning for LAS VEGAS SHOW Le RÊVE Cirque de Soleil

  - 1st time appearing in vietnamese community Entertainment business in California ;

• - Judging a vietnamese reality dance TV Show ” You Can Dance ” on SBTN ( ASIA Entertainment )

• 2011 - Judging a vietnamese reality dance TV Show ” A Dancing Dream ” on Vietface TV ( Thuy Nga Paris by Night Production and Dancesation Production)

• - Ballroom and Hiphop Fusion choreography work

• 2012 – Grand Opening BeliEVE & Dance Studio in Garden Grove , CA USA

• 2013 - Beginning the cooperation between BeliEVE & Dance Studio with Lion Star ( Singing School ) Music Production

• - Organizing 1st Talent Show ” Uoc Mo Va Toi ” = Dreams And Me. A Showcase with new talented singers and dancers in all ages

• - Sept. 20th kids Dance Talent Show ” Vu dieu Ti Hon ” . A Showcase for kids from 4-15 years old

• - Choreographing work for Vstar 2013 Top 12 ( Paris By Night Production ) Opening number : Ngoi sao den nay/ Fame

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  2014 - singing and dancing performance tour in Europe and Australia

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  - performing for World Beauty Contest " Mr. & Mrs. Vietnamese Continents in Las Vegas "

• - Working for Vstar 2014 ( Vietface & Paris By Night Production ) Singing contest

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• 2015 - performing for Paris By Night 115