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 Cambodian pop singer-songwriter. But then, the UC Berkeley anthropology graduate grabbed her guitar one day at her San Jose home 12 years ago.
"We had this incredible run where it just blew up and people called me later and were like, 'Hey, can you come to Cambodia and do music?'" Mam said. "We lost the sound when the Khmer Rouge killed most of the artists, so now we are helping to bring the Cambodian sound to modernize it," Buth told KPIX 5.The pair started their own company: Baramey Production to support young artists creating original Cambodian music.Baramey's music revolution reverberates on social media with 15 artists and 20 albums."This gave these children the opportunity to write new music," explained Buth.
She shared her music as guest speaker in Professor Dr. Jonathan Lee's Asian American Studies class at San Francisco State University."It brought him some joy," said Lee. And it gave Lee a glimpse into his family's past.
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