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Kong Nay
Kong Nay ( km, គង់ ណៃ) aka Kong Nai (b. March 15, 1944 in Kampot Province, Cambodia) is a Cambodian musician from Kampot Province in southwestern Cambodia who plays a traditional long-necked fretted plucked lute called ''chapei dang veng''. Commonly referred to as ''Master Kong Nay'', he is a master of the ''chrieng chapei'' genre ( km, ច្រៀងចាប៉ី) in which a solo vocalist performs semi-improvised topical material within traditional epics self-accompanied with the chapei. He is one of relatively few great masters to have survived the Khmer Rouge era, and is known as the "Ray Charles of Cambodia". He received the 2017 Fukuoka Prize, Fukuoka Arts and Culture Prize. Early life Kong grew up in a poor family in Daung village, in Kampong Trach district’s Svay Tong Khang Choeung commune, Kampot province. At the age of four, he contracted smallpox resulting in his blindness. Drawn to the sound of the chapei players in his village, he mimicked the so ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kong Nay
Kong Nay ( km, គង់ ណៃ) aka Kong Nai (b. March 15, 1944 in Kampot Province, Cambodia) is a Cambodian musician from Kampot Province in southwestern Cambodia who plays a traditional long-necked fretted plucked lute called ''chapei dang veng''. Commonly referred to as ''Master Kong Nay'', he is a master of the ''chrieng chapei'' genre ( km, ច្រៀងចាប៉ី) in which a solo vocalist performs semi-improvised topical material within traditional epics self-accompanied with the chapei. He is one of relatively few great masters to have survived the Khmer Rouge era, and is known as the "Ray Charles of Cambodia". He received the 2017 Fukuoka Prize, Fukuoka Arts and Culture Prize. Early life Kong grew up in a poor family in Daung village, in Kampong Trach district’s Svay Tong Khang Choeung commune, Kampot province. At the age of four, he contracted smallpox resulting in his blindness. Drawn to the sound of the chapei players in his village, he mimicked the so ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
White Building (Phnom Penh)
The White Building, originally known as the Municipal Apartments, was a large and prominent apartment building in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, one of the buildings in the Bassac development. The White Building was on Samdach Sothearos Boulevard near the Bassac River, a large urban extension project built on reclaimed land in the early 1960s. The UN consultants Gérald Hanning and Vladimir Bodiansky introduced the concept of the building, a architectural composition, directly inspired by previous AT.BAT designs built in Morocco. Lu Ban Hap, then Chief Architect of the Municipality of Phnom Penh, was responsible for the site supervision. The White Building was designed to house moderate-income tenants, and was adopted by many artists who found the innovative design appealing. With the nearby Grey Building, designed by Vann Molyvann, it was initially built for athletes in the 1964 GANEFO (Games of the non-aligned forces) international sports event. After years of neglect and deterioration s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cambodian Musicians
Cambodian usually refers to: * Something of, from, or related to the country of Cambodia ** Cambodian people (or Khmer people) ** Cambodian language (or Khmer language) ** For citizens and nationals of Cambodia, see Demographics of Cambodia ** For languages spoken in Cambodia, see Languages of Cambodia Cambodian may also refer to: Other * Cambodian architecture * Cambodian cinema * Cambodian culture * Cambodian cuisine * Cambodian literature * Cambodian music * Cambodian name * Cambodian nationalism * Cambodian descendants worldwide: ** Cambodian Americans ** Cambodian Australians ** Cambodian Canadians ** Cambodians in France See also * *List of Cambodians {{Short description, none This is a list of notable Cambodian people, persons from Cambodia or of Khmer descent. * Adda Angel * Am Rong * Ampor Tevi * Arn Chorn-Pond * Beat Richner * Bérénice Marlohe * Bour Kry * Chan Nak * Chan Sy * Chantho ... {{disambig Language and nationality disambiguation pages ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bophana Center
The Bophana Center is an audiovisual center located in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. The center is dedicated to restoring, protecting and enhancing the Cambodian audiovisual heritage. The Bophana Center was co-founded in late 2006 by leu Pannakar and Cambodian-French filmmaker Rithy Panh. Rithy Panh has been critically acclaimed for his work. Most recently, he received the top prize of the "" competition at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival for his documentary The Missing Picture (film), The Missing Picture. The Bophana Center is an official member of the International Federation of Television Archives (FIAT) and the International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF). The origins of the Bophana Center As a survivor of the Khmer Rouge genocide, Rithy Panh moved to France in 1980. After rejecting the memory of his early years in Cambodia and then in the refugee camps in Thailand, he abandoned his carpentry studies to devote himself to cinema. He graduated from IDHEC in 1988. Between 1975 and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
