VannDa continues to push Khmer music onto global stage PHNOM PENH: Cambodia has reached a new chapter in history: one where its culture is spreading to neighbouring countries and attracting growing ...
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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 ...
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 ...
LOWELL — Arn Chorn-Pond watched his siblings starve to death. His parents died under the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia. His teacher did not make it. About 90 percent of Cambodia’s artists did not survive ...
Unless one is visiting a place with a large expat Cambodian population – such as Long Beach, California – it is almost unheard of to hear a Khmer language song played during large festivals and ...
Families, their histories, and family relationships always yield rich fodder for dramatic stories, a fact storytellers and playwrights have long realized. Playwright Lauren Yee adheres to that tenet, ...