As a Saigon teenager, Phương Tâm became one of the first singers in Vietnam to perform and record Rock and Roll (known in Vietnam as nhạc kích động, or, action music) in the early-to-mid 1960s.

Phương Tâm was born in 1945 in a sugar cane field in the central Vietnamese town Quang Binh. Her parents were told by a fortune teller that she was to be "famous one day". Famine forced her family to move to Saigon. Her singing career started in 1961 when she entered a singing competition and was subsequently accepted in an entertainment program that was part of the Vietnamese army. After achieving success in nightclubs she left the army program to pursue her own career.

In early 1966 Phương Tâm got married and chose to end her singing career. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.