Kak Channthy

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Kak Channthy (also Srey Thy ; born February 26, 1980 ; † March 20, 2018 in Phnom Penh ) was a Cambodian singer and front woman of the band Cambodian Space Project . She has been described as "The Barefoot Diva of the Cambodian Rice Fields" and as the Cambodian Amy Winehouse .

Life

Channthy was born as the only daughter of the tank driver Reach Lon in the Second Cambodian Civil War and grew up in the Prey Veng province, a rural area, before moving to Phnom Penh . Together with her Australian husband Julien Poulson, she founded the Cambodian psychedelic rock band "The Cambodian Space Project". She worked as a lead singer and songwriter, released 5 albums and toured 24 countries around the world.

Inspired by Cambodian singers of the 1960s and early 1970s, "Cambodia's Golden Age," The Cambodian Space Project experienced an amazing art and culture revival in Cambodia and is one of the few Cambodian rock bands to have achieved success outside of their own country. In 2011 she was appointed UN Goodwill Ambassador for the UN women's campaign UNiTE, which campaigns for violence against women worldwide.

Channthy worked with a number of artists including Dennis Coffey of Motown Funk Bros, with whom she produced and recorded her groundbreaking third LP Whiskey Cambodia . She recorded two duets with the Australian cult poet Paul Kelly. The first is The Boat - a song that deals with the subject of asylum seekers and appeared on the Key of Sea compilation in 2013 . Second, she recorded a reworking of Lee Hazlewood and Nancy Sinatra's classic Summer Wine with Kelly in 2017 .

Channthy loved French chanson and worked with Bad Seed Mick Harvey on the Serge Gainsbourg track Contact . At her live shows, she loved to sing France Gall's classic Laisse Tomber Les Filles . Kak Chanthy and her then-husband Julien Poulson were the subject of a BBC Storyville documentary Rise of a Pop Diva, a program that also hit theaters as the documentary The Cambodian Space Project . She also had several side projects, including the Australian Khmer - hip-hop group Astronomy Class, with the album they Mekong Delta Sunrise recorded and published. In 2016 she founded the all-Khmer band “Channhy Cha-Cha”, in which she experimented with romantic Khmer ballads by artists such as Sinn Sisamouth and Pan Ron.

death

She died in a traffic accident at the age of 38. After her death, friends and colleagues established the Kak Chanthy Memorial Fund.

Discography

Cambodian Space Project albums:

  • 2011: A Space Odyssey - 2011
  • Not Easy Rock & Roll - 2012
  • Whiskey Cambodia - 2014
  • Radio Cambodia - 2015
  • Electric Blue Boogaloo - 2015
  • Spaced-Out in Wonderland - 2017

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Kak Channthy: The Cambodian Space Project and a rock revival , BBC News. March 21, 2018. Retrieved March 26, 2018.  
  2. ↑ a b c Kak Channthy, Cambodia's 'Amy Winehouse', this in car crash at 38 . In: The Sydney Morning Herald , March 26, 2018.  
  3. ↑ Kak Channthy, Cambodian Space Project frontwoman, killed in crash at 38 . In: The Phnom Penh Post . March 20, 2018. Retrieved April 30, 2018.
  4. ↑ Cambodian Space Project lead singer Srey Thy becomes UN Goodwill Ambassador . In: Laurie Kamens . October 13, 2011. Retrieved April 30, 2018.
  5. ↑ Sounds Like: Cha-cha-chá with Cambodia's Kak Channthy . In: Straatosphere . March 27, 2018. Retrieved March 27, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Channthy, Kak
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Thy, Srey
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Cambodian singer
DATE OF BIRTH February 26, 1980
PLACE OF BIRTH Prey Veng
DATE OF DEATH 20th March 2018
Place of death Phnom Penh