Laura Mam is Cambodian American, and her mother, Thida Buth, is a Khmer Rouge survivor. They're fostering the pop music movement in Cambodia that... Across Languages And Generations, One Family Is ...
Mention Cambodia to many Americans and the image that comes to mind is "the killing fields," photojournalist Dith Pran's term for the blood-soaked soil of his homeland. During the 1975-79 dictatorship ...
Guitars tuned. Mic checked. Get ready to rock. This electric new play with music tells the story of a Khmer Rouge survivor returning to Cambodia for the first time in thirty years, as his daughter ...
You'll cry. You'll laugh. You'll dance. Despite all of the tragedy inherent to "Cambodian Rock Band," "dancing is heavily encouraged, especially at the end," says director Nelson T. Eusebio III. But ...
“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 ...
What happens when the music stops? What happens when it vanishes, is banned, or even becomes punishable by death? That’s one of the hooks that draws audiences into Lauren Yee’s Cambodian Rock Band, by ...
Laura Mam is one of Cambodia's biggest pop stars, but she wasn't born or raised in the country. She's American, and even though both of her parents are originally from Cambodia, she hardly spoke a ...