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 ...
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 ...
Before performing a ballad dedicated to his late mother, Cambodian rapper and singer Norith warned the sold-out crowd gathered at Asian Art Museum's Samsung Hall that his emotions might get the best ...
Their music helps to tell the story of Cambodian father who narrowly escaped the Khmer Rouge in 1978 and is now seeking his daughter, a lawyer persecuting one of the regime’s war criminals. More than ...
SAN JOSE (KPIX) -- A Bay Area mother and daughter are leading the way, as an explosion of new music is coming out of Cambodia after being silenced for years. Laura Mam did not set out to become a ...
Onstage, the band is rocking, establishing a dark, minor-key groove akin to the blues-based acid rock of the 1960s. The singer keens a mournful wail. A vibe is taking hold. But then a man takes the ...
Lauren Yee’s play draws on the music of Dengue Fever to track the fate of a fictional Cambodian band that ran afoul of the Khmer Rouge. Is there anything less politically threatening than a rock band ...
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 ...
Lauren Yee’s play draws on the music of Dengue Fever to track the fate of a fictional Cambodian band that ran afoul of the Khmer Rouge. Is there anything less politically threatening than a rock band ...