Lok Ta Kong Nay

The 'Ray Charles of Cambodia'

This is another short post about loss. I felt I had to honour the passing of Lok Ta Kong Nay, who died last week at the age of 80. Kong Nay was a Cambodian musician and one of the few artists or musicians to have survived the Khmer Rouge genocide between 1975 and 1979. Over a period of nearly four years, through their ‘agrarian revolution’, the regime …