Kou Voravong
Kou Voravong grew up in Savannakhet and pursued a primary education there. He obtained the « certificat d'études primaires complémentaire indochinois » - Certificate of Indochinese Additional Primary Studies - (CEPCI) in 1930, went afterward to Vientiane and began his first-secondary-school year at the Collège Auguste Pavie. But because of a conflict which opposed him to French Colonial administration, his adopted father was sentenced to prison that same year. As reaction to this situation, Kou Voravong left school and returned to Savannakhet. As an out-of-school teenager, he practiced sports, especially soccer.
Kiều Hưng
NSƯT Kiều Tất Hưng (born 1937), also known as Kiều Hưng, is a Vietnamese singer of Vietnamese revolutionary songs. He was born in Hanoi. From 1968 to 1972, Hưng studied at the Kiev Conservatory then again at the Moscow Conservatory in 1991.