Dalena morton biography

To hear her sing Vietnamese ballads, you wouldn’t know Dalena is American-born.

But the blue-eyed, blond sensation from Muncie, Ind., croons so well that she’s winning over Vietnamese fans.

Dalena, who doesn’t even speak the language she sings in, is the rage among Vietnamese youths and adults.

Her sultry voice-often compared to that of Karen Carpenter-gives a new spin to old-fashioned love songs.

Her posters plaster store windows. Young fans copy her hairstyle and mail her hundreds of letters.

“Vietnamese music is so touching.

I’ve never heard anything like it,” says Dalena, who, like Madonna, goes by only one name. “Here’s a language I don’t know, a culture I’m just getting to know, yet I totally love it.

“I always explain to Vietnamese people before I sing that I’m percent American, but many people don’t believe it.

They think there must be some Vietnamese blood in me.”

In fact, she’s