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An event to launch the Khmer-language version of the graphic novel “The Golden Voice Queen” – which is about the life and career of one of the Kingdom’s most famed singers, Ros Serey Sothea – was attended by a large crowd of hundreds of young people on November 30.

Recently, Ros Saboeun – sister to Cambodian singer Ros Serey Sothea, dubbed “The Golden Voice” back in the 1960’s – celebrated what would have been the singer’s 74th birthday at the stupa dedicated to her and other victims of the Khmer Rouge located in Phnom Srouch district of Kampong Speu province.

Staying true to one’s self as a pop musician is a real conundrum. How is that even possible when so much of the music industry is about image, popularity and creating a mythical aura around the biggest stars so that when a stadium full of tens of thousands of fans gathers to worship and venerate them it doesn’t come off as totally absurd or obscene?

Share KlapYaHandz creative director Sok Visal (left) and label artist Sin Setsochhata during the press conference on January 14. Hong Menea Sin Setsochhata carries on a music legacy Tue, 19 January 2021 As a child, Sin Setsochhata had tagged along with her father when he would sing on stage and by the time she was a teenager she was already familiar not only with performing on stage but also with composing music and writing lyrics for her own songs. But she often felt like all anyone would ever...