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Hà Okio

Vietnamese singer-songwriter, rapper and record producer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 12, 2026
Entity authorityQ5636445
Source-derived summary

Hà Lương Ngọc, also known by his stage name Hà Okio (born 15 November 1981), is a Vietnamese recording artist, musician, producer and actor. He has taught himself to sing, write music, play guitar and act. Early in his career, he quickly established his reputation as a rapper, singer and songwriter.

Hà Okio lives in Saigon, Vietnam. He is an ambassador of 350.org, a global environmental organization against climate change and The Earth Hour campaign (year 2012, 2013, 2014). In 2013, Hà Okio agreed to take on the role ambassador of The Red Journey (Hành Trình Đỏ) run by the Ministry of Public Health of Vietnam. He's also one of the Commit Vietnam ambassadors.

In 2013, he was nominated as the Sexiest Vegetarian Celebrity in the world by PETA, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, alongside about 300 international celebs including Bill Clinton, Paul McCartney, Mike Tyson, Prince, Alicia Silverstone, Anne Hathaway, Brigitte Bardot, Diane Warren, Ellen DeGeneres, Erykah Badu, Fiona Apple, India.Arie, Joan Jett, Leona Lewis, Michelle Pfeiffer, and Shania Twain.

He performed at Soundfest, Beatfest the 2 first biggest music festivals in Vietnam with estimated 50,000 goers each, with Vpop stars and international acts like Big Bang (South Korean band), Taio Cruz, Tata Young, Kimberley Caldwell (Top 7 American Idol), Shane Ward, Demi Lovato.

VTV3, Vietnam's Got Talent, HTV Awards and many more have invited Hà Okio to perform on their shows, live on national television.

Editorial summary

“Hà Okio” enters the record as vietnamese singer-songwriter, rapper and record producer. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Okio, Vietnamese and singer-songwriter can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1981, 2012, 2013, 2014—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1981-11-15. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Okio, Vietnamese and singer-songwriter.
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Why this record matters

“Hà Okio” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Okio, Vietnamese and singer-songwriter provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 12, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5636445. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1981, 2012, 2013 and 2014.

Critical limits

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This entry incorporates text from Hà Okio” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.