In the twenty years that Trinh Nam Son has been in the United States, he has produced a significant amount of music to add to the rich mosaic that makes up the vietnamese music industry and he has also bridged the gap between the Vietnamese culture and the mainstream culture using his musical talents.

Trinh Nam Son has written over 100 songs, of which 80 have been widely recorded worldwide. Trinh Nam Son's musical style can be described as free flowing, meaningful, simple but elegant. In his song, Du Mai Day (Pop rock), he drew from his eastern upbringing and the Buddhist canon of the suffering of human kind as a way to describe his inner-most feelings. However, most listeners have interpreted it to be a love song describing a feeling between two individuals. In Boi Roi (New Age), Trinh Nam Son spoke about life's imperfections and the human's thrive for personal desires bringing about a many inner conflicts. He used symbolic imageries to conjure up pictures of an ever changing life and the difficulties that one must encounter in Con Da Ghenh and Con Song Ngam.

Followed are lyrics for some of Trinh Nam Son's most popular songs:

Di Vang (1988) Ve Day Em (1991) Nho (1991) Con Tim That Tha(1994) Le Hoang (1992) Cho Em (1988) Nuoi Tiec (1990) Quen Di Tinh Yeu Cu (1988) Niem Nho (1991) Tinh Vao Thu (1990) Tinh Trong Mong Mo (1993) Con Duong Mau Xanh (1992) Van Cho Em (1991) Vay Tay Biet Ly (1991) Bong Bong Mua (1992) Loi Tu Gia (1988) Mot Chut An Tinh (1996) Click for VietNet version Click for Viscii version

How "Di Vang" was written

The song "Di Vang" was actually written in 1986 and copyrighted in 1989 under author: Son Nam Trinh. This song was one of my big band compositional assignments during my school year. "Di Vang" was written in a form of Latin Jazz with II-V-I chord progression. The style of dramatic ballad was assigned and to be evaluated at the play down. At that time, I had no intention of having lyrics for "Di Vang" because it was not what the assignment asked for. Two years later, there was a day I went through my schoolworks and found quite a number of songs that I wanted to release for the Vietnamese Community. The words were added this time. The lyrics of Di Vang depicted a real love story. Whose story? It could be mine. It also could be someone else's. I would leave this to the listeners to find out. Have many rumors as much as you wanted. It's up to the listener's imaginations and inspirations.

"Quen Di Tinh Yeu Cu"

This was also one of my school works. The style was originally in bossanova (a little slower or faster than chacha). The progression of the song is in II - V - I. I put the words in 1988. The song was about a man who was left by his lover. However, pain and sufferings in his broken heart had made him denying the reality. To get over this lovesick, he'd imagined that he was the one that left her, not the other way around which actually was the other way around!!!!(get it?)