Eli Carlton-Pearson, 18, sits cross-legged on a kgray, the wooden- slat bed common in Cambodia, and wails out an improvised blues tune on his homemade guitar, fingers flashing like sparks across the ...
Cambodian rapper, singer and producer VannDa has released his second single of 2022, ‘Khmer Blood’. READ MORE: Zamaera: “When I first started out, there were so few of us that I felt a pressure to be ...
Just a few seconds into their show, Cambodian band Kampot Playboys have people in a crowded Phnom Penh bar swaying along. By their third song – a folksy alternative rock cover of a classic by beloved ...
When Bay Area singer-songwriter Laura Mam asked her mother to translate lyrics into Khmer, it was as if she had laid a bridge between worlds. Mam knew her parents had fled the Khmer Rouge — a ...
“Bangsokol: A Requiem for Cambodia,” a symphonic work by composer Him Sophy and the first major such piece to address the Khmer Rouge genocide in the country, recently was released on Entertain Impact ...
As a mixed-race person with Cambodian heritage, Brandy Myers grew up hearing Khmer songs and wished she could learn the language despite the lack of resources to do so. Her struggles from childhood ...
The Khmer Rouge in a song? Jinja of webbed feet, web log touches on the free use of the Cambodian genocide in Western popular culture in a post about Western music and Cambodia. Global Voices stands ...