Born on September 25th in South Vietnam, Nhật Hạ didn't pursue her career in entertainment until after she had left her native homeland and resettled in the United States during the early 1980s. Shortly after her arrival in the United States, Nhật Hạ signed with a major Asian-American modeling agency in Los Angeles, California. Within a short period of time, she became one of the most recognizable faces in overseas Vietnamese communities worldwide. During the 1980s, Nhật Hạ along with model Thanh Hằng and singer Kim Ngân were the three most celebrated beauties in the overseas Vietnamese entertainment industry gracing the covers of numerous fashion magazines, audio cassettes and calendars. Despite the immediate success she had found as a fashion model, Nhật Hạ knew that her true calling would be in music. She began collaborating with Asia Entertainment as a recording artist in the mid-1980s. One of her earliest released audio recordings was of a song called Tình Nồng Cháy featured on the album produced by Asia Entertainment, Dạ Vũ Xanh (1986), which comprised of various artists such as Kiều Nga, Julie Quang, Duy Quang, Thanh Mai, Ngọc Lan, Thái Hiền, Elvis Phương, Như Mai, Billy Shane, Minh Xuân and Minh Phuc. In the spring of 1987, Nhật Hạ was formally introduced to the Vietnamese-American audience of Southern California with a live performance concert show held at the Disneyland Hotel Grand Ballroom promoted by the popular overseas Vietnamese band, Mây Bốn Phương. That same year, she released her debut studio album, Tình Như Thoáng Mây Bay. As her popularity grew, Nhật Hạ maintained a busy schedule of headlining weekly at popular Vietnamese nightclubs in Orange County, Southern California such as Saigon Cabaret and Caravelle throughout the late 1980s and well into the 1990s along with frequent one-night bookings to perform at live shows for Vietnamese audiences in various regions throughout the United States, Canada, Australia and Europe.
In 1989, Nhật Hạ made her debut performance on volume 7 of the popular live show music video series, Paris By Night, produced by Thúy Nga with her rendition of the song, Mơ Ước Người Yêu Bên Tôi. Nhật Hạ was featured on Asia Entertainment's very first music videotape production, Tình Yêu Tuổi Trẻ (Young Love) (1990). In the music video for a song she had previously recorded for Asia Entertainment, Mây Lang Thang (Vietnamese lyrics written by Nam Lộc), Nhật Hạ was filmed singing and dancing around in a studio with several wardrobe changes. Other featured performers on Asia Entertainment's debut music videotape production included Kiều Nga, Như Mai, Thái Thảo, Trịnh Nam Sơn and Thúy Vi. In 1991 with the release of Asia Entertainment's second videotape production, Tiếng Hát Nhật Hạ - Tình Em Thiết Tha, she became the first singer to have ever been featured in a solo videotape produced by the label.

Aside from her successful careers as a model and singer, Nhật Hạ had also enjoyed a brief career as an actress. In 1990, she was cast in the overseas Vietnamese-produced film, Bên Kia Màn Sương, starring Lê Tuấn and Thanh Lan. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.