April 17 marks 40 years since the Khmer Rouge devastated Cambodia. It also tried to wipe out the country’s incredibly vibrant rock, soul, and pop music and performing artists. For the first time, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A daily chronicle of creativity in film, TV, music, arts, and entertainment, produced by Southern California Public Radio and broadcast from November 2014 – March 2020. Host John Horn leads the ...