by the new communist government, to "retraining" in a labour camp after his family had fled to Canada. However, he was eventually honoured by the government and many officials sent their respects with floral tributes. His often melancholic songs about love and postwar reconciliation earned new acceptance and popularity in later years. Many of his songs have been re-licensed to Vietnamese music companies such as Thúy Nga and Lang Van and sung by other artists. There are two singers' names often associated with Trịnh Công Sơn. One is Khánh Ly. The other one is Hồng Nhung. Khánh Ly helped popularize Trịnh Công Sơn's music in the early years. They often performed together in South Vietnam University campuses. Later on in his life, singer Hồng Nhung (born 1970) re-popularized his music.. He died on 1 April 2001, at 62 years old. Hundreds of thousands of people gathered at his funeral in Ho Chi Minh City, for a spontaneous ad hoc funeral concert, making such a spectacle the largest in Vietnamese history, next to the funeral procession of Ho Chi Minh. On 28 February 2019, Google celebrated what would have been Trịnh Công Sơn's 80th birthday with a Google doodle. Songs Till now (2017) according to Nguyễn Đăng Chương, director of the Performing Art department of the ministry of Culture, Sport and Tourism, 70 songs of Trịnh Công Sơn are allowed to perform in public. The latest song which has just been permitted, is Nối vòng tay lớn, on April 12, 2017. List of songs Bài ca dành cho những xác người (Ballad to the dead), written in the aftermath of the Huế Massacre [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYlxywSjRnY Bên đời hiu quạnh (Alone by life's side) Biển nghìn thu ở lại Biển nhớ (The sea remembers) Biển sáng (Bright sea) (co-writing with Phạm Trọng Cầu) Biết đâu nguồn cội (Unbeknownst to me, the root) Bống bồng ơi Bống không là Bống Bốn mùa thay lá (Four seasons of change) Ca dao mẹ (A folk song for mothers) Cánh đồng hoà bình (The Field of peace) Cát bụi (Sand and dust) Chiếc lá thu phai (The withering fall leaf) Chiều một mình qua phố (An afternoon promenade of solitude) Chiều trên quê hương tôi (An afternoon in my homeland) Chỉ có ta trong cuộc đời (Only me in life) Chìm dưới cơn mưa (Sunk under the rain) Chính Chúng Ta Phải Nói (We ourselves have to