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 ...

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 ...

Orphaned at age 14 in Cambodia, Bun Loeung was forced to perform as a musician full time simply to survive. During a career that spanned continents, Loeung played every venue imaginable, from Asian ...

For Seak Smith, 37, producing the first-ever Cambodian Music Festival on Sunday at the Ford Amphitheatre has been a labor of love – and duty. The child of ethnic Cambodians who lived in Thailand, ...

From R&B to rock and from reggae to hip-hop, Cambodian music (which is about 80 percent in English) touches on the majority of contemporary music trends. The second annual Cambodian Music Festival in ...

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 ...

Four decades after the Cambodian genocide decimated traditional art forms in the Southeast Asian country, a nonprofit organization is working with an award-winning composer to engage new musicians in ...

Cambodia's 2020 foreign-language Oscar submission, 'In the Life of Music,' deals with the stories and songs that define the Killing Fields genocide generation, says co-director Caylee So. By Mathew ...