ស្នេហា! ស្នេហា! ស្នេហា! - Sneha! Sneha! Sneha! |ស៊ីន ស៊ីសាមុត - Sinn Sisamouth|

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បទៈ ស្នេហា! ស្នេហា! ស្នេហា! - Sneha! Sneha! Sneha!
ច្រៀងដោយៈ ស៊ីន ស៊ីសាមុត - Sinn Sisamouth
Early life Sin Sisamouth was born in 1935 in Stung Treng Province, the son of Sinn Leang and mother Seb Bunlei who was of Lao-Chinese descent. He was the youngest of four siblings, with one brother and two sisters. His father was a prison warden in Battambang Province and was then a soldier during the Colonial Cambodia period. His father died of disease and his mother remarried, and the union resulted in two more children. Samouth attended Central Province of Stung Treng Elementary School when he was 5. At around age 6 or 7, he started show interest in the guitar, and he would be asked to perform at school functions. He was also interested in Buddhist scripture and other books as well as playing soccer and flying kites. Around 1951, he passed elementary school and intended to study medicine in Phnom Penh, but continued working at becoming a singer and writing songs. Just as he had in elementary school, he became well known in his school for his music and was asked to sing at school ceremonies. By the time Cambodia was granted independence from France in 1953, Samouth's fine singing voice landed him a spot on national radio as a regular singer. He also continued his studies, working at Pheah Ketokmala Hospital. Music career After completing medical school, Samouth married his cousin, Keo Thorng Gnut in an arranged marriage. The couple had four children. But he was also a very famous singing star in Cambodia, and his life as a celebrity eclipsed his family life. He possessed a clear crooning voice, which combined with his own compositions of the pleasures and pains of romance, made him an irrestible idol. He sang many ballads, as well uptempo rock numbers that featured prominent, distortion-laden guitar, pumping organ and loud, driving drums. Other arrangments were more Latin jazz-sounding, featuring woodwinds, brass and auxiliary percussion. He sang the soundtrack songs to many famous movies of his time, such as On srey On and Thavory meas bong. He recorded many duets with female singing partners Ros Sereysothea and Pan Ron. Ros Sereysothea's high, crisp voice nicely balanced the deeper-toned voice of Sisamouth. As the top music artist in the kingdom, he was asked to lead the palace band of King Norodom Sihanouk, a job he held until 1970. He performed not only contemporary songs, but the Khmer traditional music as well. From 1972 to 1973 music publisher Kruorch Bunlyhe issued "A Collection of Sentimental Songs", which contained 500 of Sinn Sisamouth's songs. That was just one publisher. It's estimated that he wrote thousands of songs, possibly at least one for each day he was famous, his son Sinn Chaya has said. Along with his original works, Samouth also introduced many Western pop tunes to Cambodia, simply writing new verses in Khmer language. Examples include "The House of the Rising Sun" as "I'm Still Waiting for You" (a particularly good showcase of his sustained phrasing and baritone voice), "Black Magic Woman" (drawing influence from the Santana version) as "I Love Petite Women", and "Quando My Love", a crooner's classic in any language. The Killing Fields After the coup d'état by the Lon Nol government on March 18, 1970 deposed the rule of Sihanouk, Samouth led ministry bands under the Khmer Republic, rising to the military rank of captain by the time of the Khmer Rouge takeover on April 17, 1975. Along with millions of other residents, Samouth was forced to leave Phnom Penh. By this time he had remarried, to a dancer in the royal ballet, who was pregnant at the time with the couple's second child. The circumstances of his death in the Killing Fields are unknown. But he had connections to the old government, was highly educated and was an artist - all trappings of a society that Pol Pot sought to eradicate. One story is that before he was to be executed, Samouth asked he be allowed to sing a song for the cadre, but the cold-hearted soldiers were unmoved and after he finished singing, they killed him anyhow. http://ki-media.blogspot.com/2006/04/memories-from-khmer-rouge-era-murder.html