For Seak Smith, 37, producing the first-ever Cambodian Music Festival on Sunday at the Ford Amphitheatre has been a labor of love – and duty. The child of ethnic Cambodians who lived in Thailand, ...

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 ...

Throughout its history, Cambodia has been ruled by royalty and rogues. It has seen unparalleled heights, like those symbolized by the majestic Angkor Wat temple complex, and unspeakable lows, such as ...

Four decades after the Cambodian genocide decimated traditional art forms in the Southeast Asian country, a nonprofit organization is working with an award-winning composer to engage new musicians in ...

La Jolla Playhouse just opened the play "Cambodian Rock Band" by UC San Diego graduate Lauren Yee. The play serves up a redemptive tale of a father and daughter finding each other amidst decades-old ...

Back in 2009, California band Dengue Fever – fronted by sultry Cambodian singer Chhom Nimol – brought a steamy brew of Cambodian pop, surf rock and psychedelica to FSU’s Club Downunder. Like all ...

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 ...

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 ...

In 1974, in a town in central Cambodia, Keo Sinan hid his collection of records. Wrapping them in plastic bags, the musician stashed them in an outhouse. Through the years of war, famine and genocide, ...

Cambodia's 2020 foreign-language Oscar submission, 'In the Life of Music,' deals with the stories and songs that define the Killing Fields genocide generation, says co-director Caylee So. By Mathew ...

Cambodian singer Kak Channthy, the lead singer and songwriter of the Cambodian Space Project, died Tuesday in Phnom Penh. She was 38. Dubbed the Cambodian Amy Winehouse, Channthy was killed in a car ...