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THE Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts decided to hand over the rights to four more songs written by artist Kong Bunchhoeun to his wife Keat Kimlon.

Keo Sinan, a former musician, has kept 401 vinyl records which date from the 1940’s to 1975 safe for more than 50 years. Recently, the 78-year-old told The Post about his last wish. For more than 20 years, he has dreamt of opening a small museum in his hometown in Baray district in Kampong Thom province, to display the music of the Kingdom’s “Golden era” for the next generation.

As a mixed-race person with Cambodian heritage, Brandy Myers grew up hearing Khmer songs and wished she could learn the language despite the lack of resources to do so.

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 Caricature artist inspiring laughter in Battambang Tue, 20 July 2021 At first glance, the face staring back at Phen Lina from the artist’s page – with its huge lips, symmetrically over-inflated cheeks, and eyelashes longer than the whiskers on a cat – was just a silly cartoon-style caricature drawn for her amusement. But after a few moments of giggling at the absurd face that the artist drew for her, she realized that it really was an accurate – though wildly exaggerated – likeness of her. He got the shape of her face, her mouth and her hair-style spot on. “Even though it ...