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Sinn Sisamouth [a] (c. 1932 – c. 1976) was a Cambodian singer-songwriter active from the 1950s to the 1970s. Widely considered the "King of Khmer Music", Sisamouth, along with Ros Serey Sothea, Pen Ran, Mao Sareth, and other Cambodian artists, was part of a thriving pop music scene in Phnom Penh that blended elements of Khmer traditional music with the sounds of rhythm and blues and rock and ...
Ros Serey Sothea (Khmer: រស់ សេរីសុទ្ធា / រស់ សិរីសុទ្ធា [ruəh serəjsotʰiə]; c. 1948 - 1977) was a Cambodian singer. She was active during the final years of the First Kingdom of Cambodia and into the Khmer Republic period. She sang in a variety of genres; romantic ballads emerged as her ...
Thon and rammana. The thon and rammana (Khmer: ស្គរថូន និង ស្គររមនា; Thai: โทนรำมะนา, pronounced [tʰoːn ram.ma.naː]) are hand drums played as a pair in Khmer and Thai classical music. It consists of two drums: the thon (Khmer: ស្គរថូន; Thai: โทน), a goblet drum with a ...
Chakhe. The chakhe (Thai: จะเข้, pronounced [tɕā.kʰêː], also spelled jakhe or ja-khe; Lao: ຈະເຂ້, pronounced [tɕā.kʰȅː]), or krapeu (Khmer: ក្រពើ; also called takhe Khmer: តាខេ, takhe, takkhe or charakhe), is a fretted floor zither or lute with three strings used in Thai and Khmer music. The Thai ...
The music of Khmer boxing is called vung phleng pradall or vung phleng klang khek. The music uses an oboe, drums (sampho) and cymbals (chhing). The music comes in two parts. The first part uses a spirit (teacher) to help the boxers concentrate their minds and have confidence.
Kantrum ( Khmer: កន្ត្រឹម, Thai: กันตรึม) is a type of folk music played by the Khmer in Isan, Thailand, living near the border with Cambodia. It is a fast, traditional dance music. In its purest form, cho-kantrum, singers, percussion and fiddles dominate the sound. A more modern form using electric instrumentation ...
This song was written before Sinn Sisamouth turned to more modern influences such as rock music, but it does reflect a certain influence through the use of the violin, a foreign instrument, not traditionally part of the Khmer orchestra. The popularity of the song caused quite a stir among the elders of Cambodia, who saw the courteous dialogue ...
Chalermpol Malakham (also written Malakam, Thai: เฉลิมพล มาลาคำ; born 10 October 1962 in Surin Province ), is a singer from the Isan area of Thailand. [ 1] Known mostly for the Luk Thung and Mor lam styles, he is also considered a talented performer of Kantrum. Although the majority of Chalermpol's songs are in Thai ...