SAN JOSE (KPIX) -- 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-American composer Chinary Ung came to the United States in 1964, but he lost most of his family during the Khmer Rouge regime of the late 1970s. During that time, the Khmer Rouge committed ...

Guitars tuned. Mic checked. Get ready to rock. This electric new play with music tells the story of a Khmer Rouge survivor returning to Cambodia for the first time in thirty years, as his daughter ...

In 1974, in a town in central Cambodia, Keo Sinan hid his collection of records. Wrapping them in plastic bags, the musician stashed them in an outhouse. Through the years of war, famine and genocide, ...

Music kept Chorn-Pond in the good graces of the Khmer Rouge, but it didn’t spare him the horrors. He was often forced to help the guards as they rounded up people to be killed. Later, when Vietnam ...