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Kak Channthy

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60:", Cambodian Space Project led an astonishing arts and cultural revival in Cambodia and are one of the few Cambodian rock bands to find success outside of their own country. Channthy collaborated with a range of artists including Dennis Coffey of Motown Funk Bros who she worked with to produce and record her seminal third LP "Whisky Cambodia". She twice recorded duets with iconic Australian poet laureate Paul Kelly on the songs "The Boat" - a song dealing with the issue of asylum seekers and included on 2013's Key of Sea compilation, in 2017 she recorded again with Kelly a re-working of 79:
Kak Channthy and her then husband Julien Poulson were the subject of a BBC Storyville documentary Rise of a Pop Diva, a program also released to cinema as the documentary The Cambodian Space Project. She also had several side-projects including Australian Khmer hip hop group Astronomy Class with whom
53:. She formed the Cambodian psychedelic rock band "The Cambodian Space Project" with her Australian husband Julien Poulson and worked as the lead singer and songwriter releasing 5 albums and touring 24 countries around the world. 80:
she recorded and released the album "Mekong Delta Sunrise" and in 2016 she formed all Khmer band "Channthy Cha-Cha" in which she experimented with romantic Khmer ballads from artists such as
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she was travelling in was hit by a car. The driver who caused the collision was charged with negligent driving causing unintentional injury and death.
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track "Contact", as well as, covering and regularly performing France Gall's classic "Laisse Tomber Les Filles" in her live set.
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Channthy was born into war and poverty as the only daughter of army tank driver Reach Lon and grew up poor in
29: 33:. She has been described as "the barefoot diva of the Cambodian rice fields". She died due to an accident. 328: 333: 262: 42: 231: 24: 68:'s classic "Summer Wine". Channthy was fond of French chanson and collaborated with Bad Seed 73: 81: 322: 96: 65: 61: 171: 69: 50: 108: 107:
Cambodian Space Project were signed to Australian independent music label
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Inspired by Cambodian singers of the 1960s and early 1970s, "
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Cambodian singer
Cambodian Space Project
Prey Veng Province
Cambodia
Phnom Penh
Cambodia's golden age
Lee Hazlewood
Nancy Sinatra
Mick Harvey
Serge Gainsbourg
Sinn Sisamouth
Pen Ran
funk
auto rickshaw
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"Kak Channthy: The Cambodian Space Project and a rock revival"



"Kak Channthy, Cambodia's 'Amy Winehouse', dies in car crash at 38"
The Sydney Morning Herald
"Sounds Like: Cha-cha-chá with Cambodia's Kak Channthy"
"Driver charged in crash that killed singer Kak Channthy"
The Phnom Penh Post
"Home page"
CambodianSpaceProject.org
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