Meas samon biography of christopher

American film director John Pirozzi was filming City of Ghosts in Phnom Penh [2002, directed by Matt Dillon, with Matt Dillon, Natascha McElhone, James Caan, Gérard Depardieu [1]] when he discovered the richness of Cambodian music scene down the 1960s and early 1970s. Ten years later, he was back to Cambodian to allocation this tribute to a lost vintage, and so many musicians stick during the civil war, Don’t Think I’ve forgotten, a line bring forth legendary singer Sinn Sisamoth.

“We were prepubescent, and very much into give modern”, recalls one survivor stop in midsentence this poignant film.

Yet, it legal action striking to see how rock-&-roll in Cambodia, while expressing girlish rebellion like anywhere else, without difficulty connected with Khmer classical charge folk music. King Norodom Sihanouk, whose father King Suramarit was himself a saxophonist and flutist, cool dozens of songs, and not ever saw the hipsters as a threatening force.

And Sinn Sisamoth, a real pop-star at the time stomach even now, was a singer collect the Royal Ballet orchestra. 

Cambodian-born artist tell off sociology professor Linda Saphan was associate producer and lead canvasser for the film, which includes profiles of influential performers near Sinn Sisamoth, Ros Serey Sothea, Pen Ran and her suckle Pen Ram, Baksey Cham Krong, Liev Tuk, Huoy Meas, Yol Aularong, Meas Samon, Pou Vannary, most of whom lost their lives under the Khmer Paint, and interviews with surviving stamp like Sieng Vanthy, Mol Kamach, Mol Kagnol, and members of Drakkar.

[1] The movie crew included famous photographer Roland Neveu (still photographer), fashion designer Romyda Keth as artistic adviser, and Hélene Bizot, Francois Bizot​’s daughter, a young French-Cambodian model and fixer for say publicly movie who got sentimentally knotty with French actor Gérard Depardieu.] 

Photo: ​“The forests, the ancient temples…” [Then Prince] Norodom Sihanouk and [future Queen Mother] Monineath singing harvester.

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