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Tinh Mahoney know professional as Tinh,is a professional musician and from Vietnam.

Tinh was born November 18, 1962 in Phan Thiet, Vietnam where his mother was involved with South Vietnam’s war effort and traveled around the country, leaving primary care of his younger sister to their grandmother. Tinh’s mother met and married an American who worked for the State Department while stationed in Vietnam. Upon completion of his tour of duty, his mother left for the US with her husband and their newborn baby, leaving him and his sister in the familiar care of their grandmother. Three days before the Fall of Saigon, he and his sister were taken out of Vietnam to join their new family in the US. Within three months of arriving from Vietnam, the family moved to Islamabad, Pakistan where his stepfather had been re-assigned. After four years in Pakistan, Tinh moved with his family to Manila, Philippines where he completed his high school education. Tinh then moved to Salem, Oregon, where he studied classical guitar under John Doan at Willamette University. During the next four years, while earning a bachelor of music degree, he began to use the guitar to express the intense emotions associated with his memories of a war-torn Vietnam. Having difficulty expressing his emotions in words, his guitar became a way to communicate the feelings from his heart to those of the listener. While living in Salem, Tinh was asked to open a show for a legendary folk-blues guitarist, John Fahey. Fahey soon became his friend and mentor for years to come. The two guitarists would spend hours down in Fahey’s basement, appreciating and appraising a variety of guitar music. This musical study included the recording of legendary blues players such as Charley Patton and Robert Johnson, as well as a number of guitarists on Fahey’s own Takoma Records, including Leo Kottke, Peter Lang, Robbie Basho, Bola Sete, and Fahey himself. Fahey was very interested in Tinh’s personal compositions about Vietnam and agreed to produce his album My Vietnamese Suite (1986) with one condition – Tinh had to play everything, not on the nylon strings guitar, but on the steel strings guitar. He returned the favor and produced Fahey’s next album, “I Remember Blind Joe Death”. John Fahey’s death Feb. 22, 2001, has prompted Tinh to go back into the studio. He produced an album in memory of his mentor and friend, John Fahey, entitled “Friends of John Fahey” (2006) which features artists Paul Geremia, John Doan, Mitch Greenhill, Stephen Grossman, Peter Lang, Woody Mann, John Renbourne, Terry Robb, George Winston, himself, and a never before released piece by John Fahey, “A Call From Heaven”. The following year, Windham Hill Records and Dancing Cat Records pianist George Winston produced Mahoney’s album TINH Acoustic Rain (2002). After listening to the recording, Joshua Mamis of the New Haven Advocate penned Tinh “A Vietnamese John Fahey”. In the Fall of 2002, with the help of many, Tinh founded the Village School Foundation, a 501© 3 non-profit corporation which builds schools and gives out scholarships to children in villages of Viet Nam. By the time the Village School Foundation dissolved in 2012, the Village School Foundations has built seven schools and had given out more than five hundred scholarships. In 2007, Tinh teamed up with International Emmy Award Winner director Emiko Omori to produce a movie entitled “7,500 Miles to Redemption” (2007). The story shared Tinh’s work with the inmates of the Oregon State Penitentiary maximum security prison to raise money to help build the first Village School Foundation in Viet Nam. Tinh’s four-year journey with the inmates ended in a powerful story of transcendence. Discography My Vietnamese Suite (1986) I Remember Blind Joe Death (1987) Acoustic Rain (2002) A Tribute to Trinh Cong Son (2004) Friends Of Fahey Tribute (2006) Christmas Night (2013) Soundtracks The Story of Spirits (2006) music Garden57 (2009) director, music A Star for Rose (2010) music Ed Hardy - Tattoo the World (2010) music A Cure to War (2011) music Red Elephants Cafe (2011) director, producer, writer, music Foreign Letters (2012) music Soldiers Sanctuary (2014) music Stateless (2015) music Movies 7,500 Miles To Redemption (2007) producer, music Land Where My Heart Lies (2012) producer, director, cinematographer The Khe Sanh Peace Garden (2020) producer, director, writer, cinematographer, music References

Doan, John. "John Fahey". The Oregon Encyclopedia. Anderson, Rick. "Friends of Fahey Tribute > Review". Allmusic. Retrieved May 2, 2010 Albrecht, Kirk. "Friends of Fahey Tribute > Review". Minor 7th. Retrieved May 2, 2010. Yeager, Angela. “Remembering roots: Oregon man raises money to build schools in Vietnam”. The Seattle Times. Feb 2, 2003 Global Peace Film Festival - 2021 GPFF: THE KHE SANH PEACE GARDEN // Tinh Mahoney External Links Rambles magazine entry Slackertone Records entry tinhmahoney.com Tinh Mahoney Linkedin