When she was little, she lived in Long Khanh commune of Dong Nai Province in a family of 6, including her parents, one elder sister and two younger brothers.
In 1995, she passed Technical Department of Vocal – Ho Chi Minh City Music Institute, she also enrolled at Pedagogic English of Ho Chi Minh University of Foreign Language and Information Technology (HUFLIT), although studying at two universities at the same time, she still managed to participate in many activities, especially Green Summer Campaign and other society activities.
Not only participating in activities at schools, she also competed "The Voice of Ho Chi Minh City Broadcast Station" in 1997, this was highly rated contest at the time in Sai Gon and further regions of the South as it used to discover many famous singers in Vietnam music industry such as: Thu Minh, Dam Vinh Hung, Duc Tuan, Thanh Thuy...In this contest, she made to the final round and won supplementary prize which was pretty remarkable to a new face like her.
In 1999, post graduation with excellent degree of vocal – Ho Chi Minh City Music Institute, she was offered to work at Singapore Airline, which was suitable to her English ability with high salary.
However, some newspapers shared opinions that she didn't deserve the award but singer Thanh Thao instead who had more successful songs and suspected that the vote was not fair.
After the article's release, the spoke person of Soco Production which was the crew to craft and produce her music projects sent a message to many presses and newspapers with the titled "Official statement of Nhat Thien Bao and Doan Trang" (along with the signatures of both).
Doan Trang also sent mail to the newspaper which had posted the article regarding the conflict, according to her, it was "made up" and "badly influencing our reputation" (her and SoCo Production).
However, a few days later, they had a meet up with the press, both was happy and open to each other, opposed to the assumption that two would be awkward, both confirmed that the debate regarding SoCodance was a misunderstanding and everything was pushed too far.
Although, there were lots of things happened during the process, as some accused me of stealing Nhat Thien Bao's idea, some said that I created the scandal myself to boost my fame..Actually, it's never my working ethnic.
Although I don't know Vietnamese but through her demonstration, I got to understand contemporary music genre of Vietnam and she could be considered as Utada Kitaru – a famous Japanese female singer.
Also during this trip, she was awarded a Memorial medal from the Major of Osaka and the chairman of Ryochi Hattori Music Club, alongside two singers from Indonesia and China to be invited to perform at the final round of StreetGrandPrix2006 which is a talent show of Japan.
Trái Tim Buồn Dạ Khuc She competed in Dancing With The Stars 2012 Vietnam version and her partner is Evgeni Lyubomirov Popov, they were the runner-up with the final score as 36.5.
The average score of the judge from left to right (Le Hoang – Khanh Thi – Nguyen Quang Dung – Chi Anh): 8.8; 9.6; 9.4; 8.8.