Facts: - instrument: vocal - bgcolour: #ffbf 00 - years active: -lrb- 1962 -- present -rrb- - birth name: nguyen le mai - origin: south vietnam , united states - spouse: '' '' -lrb- ? -1972 -rrb- , '' nguyen hoang oan minh '' -lrb- 1975 -- present -rrb- i '' , '' mai ba trac - birth date: 6 march 1945 - name: khanh ly - background: solo_singer - birth place: hanoi , vietnam - occupation: singer Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of khanh ly .
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khanh ly -lrb- born as nguyen le mai -lrb- mai nguyen -rrb- on 6 march 1945 -rrb- is a vietnamese singer .she performed many songs written by vietnamese composer trinh cong son and rose to fame in the 1960s .