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ManhDan ManhDuy

Las Vegas, NV

Biography

ManhDan ManhDuy are Dan Chu and Duy Chu (pronounced: Dewey). Twin brothers born in South Vietnam in 1965.They escaped from Vietnam and came to America as refugees in 1975 with 14 members in their family, among them was their mother, brothers, sisters, nieces and nephews. Other than the nieces and nephews, they were the youngest in the family being only 10 years old. Their journey from Vietnam to America started in the city of Da Nang,Vietnam where they were born and raised. Toward the early...

ManhDan ManhDuy are Dan Chu and Duy Chu (pronounced: Dewey). Twin brothers born in South Vietnam in 1965.They escaped from Vietnam and came to America as refugees in 1975 with 14 members in their family, among them was their mother, brothers, sisters, nieces and nephews. Other than the nieces and nephews, they were the youngest in the family being only 10 years old. Their journey from Vietnam to America started in the city of Da Nang,Vietnam where they were born and raised. Toward the early spring of 1975, South Vietnam was being taken over by the North Vietnamese. They had to escape further south to a city then known as Saigon. However, the trip from Da Nang to Saigon was not an easy one. As the soldiers from north Vietnam moved into the south, the American and the south Vietnamese soldiers moved toward Saigon. The family took shelter within the walls of Da Nang Air Force Base, where some South Vietnamese military officers had five military choppers known as “chinooks” that had been abandoned by retreating South Vietnamese military due to lack of fuel. These men had hidden fuel to help them escape with their families in these abandoned helicopters. These men agreed to help the Chu family escape in one of the chinooks. They arrived at the base shortly before the bombing began. Due to the confusion and panic of the constant bombing and explosions all around them the family was split up accidentally as they ran screaming and crying to get aboard the departing chinooks. In one of the helicopters was Dan and Duy with two of their sisters. The rest of my family was split up to the other chinooks. They were informed by the pilots that the chinooks did not have enough fuel to make a non-stop flight to the city of Saigon. Because of this situation, the pilots had to land en route to refuel. The pilots were able to find the refueling area and landed one at a time to refuel. The chinook that Dan and Duy were in was able to complete its refueling and took off. The second chinook landed and it too succeeded in refueling. The moment the second one took off the third one landed, but that third chinook blew up before it was able to refuel. They could all see the explosion from above and at that moment they feared that some of their family had perished. They had no way of knowing if their family members were in that chinook, so all the twins and their sisters could do was pray and cry. The remaining helicopters abandoned efforts to refuel and decided to try and make it to Saigon. It was a miracle that the family all made it to the refugee camp without anyone dying. From the camp, they were flown on a cargo plane to the American Navy ship and from there they were transported to a cargo ship by the American soldiers. This cargo ship contained over 3000 refugees and it took them six nights and seven days to reach Guam. They stayed on Guam for a several weeks and then were flown to the Camp Pendleton refugee camp in California in another cargo plane. They stayed at Camp Pendleton for a few more weeks until they got sponsored by a church who took all of the family to Phoenix, Arizona. A year later, the family was on its own in America. The whole family couldn't speak a single word in English, not even a yes or a no. The only one who could understand a little English was the oldest sister and her husband. They just knew how to communicate enough for them to get by. As for a couple of scared little 10 years old boys named Dan and Duy, they had to learn the language and they had to learn it fast. Their singing career started in 1980 when they moved to Houston, Texas. They joined a coffeehouse named Bon Phuong; in downtown Houston and performed all kinds of music from the eighties. They also performed songs in Vietnamese to please the people of their community. But deep down in their souls, they loved to sing in English, and as Dan put it, "It's our passion". Nine years later, (1989) they relocated to Anaheim California for a change of scenery and to further their career. They performed in a few coffeehouses and in one of the most popular dance ball rooms in Anaheim called the "Ritz". In 1998 due to the smoky environments of these coffeehouses and nightclubs, they both developed signs of lung damage and had to quit singing for a while due to their doctor's order. They had to postpone their career for a while. They moved back to Phoenix and both went into the accounting field. 2009 saw their return to the music business with two auditions on "America Got talent" where judge and music promoter Piers Morgan commented, "I can image myself driving down the boulevard with the top down, and listening to these guys." He then gave them a yes vote. They now live in Las Vegas and are currently performing with the Be Young Band at the Gold Coast Casino showroom on Friday evenings.

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