Carol Kim is the featured performer of the Saigon Jazz Revival in Chicago on August 29, 2026. She talked about her career and the influence of Black artists in her music.

Ut Ha grew up in Da Lat Vietnam, one of eight children, in the 1960s and 1970s.  She survived multiple acts of war, invasion and displacement.  In 1990, she moved to the United States with her husband, Bon Bui, a former prisoner of war.  

Bon Bui was born in Quảng Bình, Vietnam in 1946 and fled to the South during the war.  He became a South Vietnamese Marine during the war and was trained by US forces in the United States. After Saigon fell in 1975, he become a prisoner of war for 10 years before finally relocating to America under an asylum program. Bui recounts the atrocities of war first hand.