Cường Vũ

Cuong Vu earns my unreserved admiration. Born in Ho Chi Minh City and reborn in America as a jazz trumpeter, he became the first Vietnamese-American to win a Grammy, and not once but twice, through his work in the Pat Metheny Group. Trumpeter, singer, composer, DJ, and university teacher, his range frankly leaves me trailing behind. There is something profound about a man whose homeland carries a refugee history reaching the summit of jazz, the most quintessentially American of art forms. I want to hear his sound carrying all of that weight inside it.

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Name (English)

Cường Vũ

Name (Japanese)

クオン・ヴー

Reading

くおん・ゔー

Born

September 19, 1969 (age 57)

Origin

Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

Occupation

trumpeter / singer / composer / DJ producer / university teacher

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Virgo / Rooster

High school

Bellevue High School

• Official sitehttps://www.cuongvu.com/
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuong%20Vu
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%AF%E3%82%AA%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%83%B4%E3%83%BC
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1144138

Tags

• trumpeter
• singer
• composer

Last updated

November 2, 2026

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