នេះគឺវាសនា​ - Nis Keu Veasna |ស៊ីន ស៊ីសាមុត - Sinn Sisamouth|

#Phumchhontola #Sinnsisamouth បទៈ នេះគឺវាសនា​ - Nis Keu Veasna ច្រៀងដោយៈ ស៊ីន ស៊ីសាមុត - Sinn Sisamouth Sisamouth learned to play the tro and chapei [Khmer string instruments] and guitar at the age of six or seven. He was often asked by his teachers to participate in children's music performances. After finishing school in 1950, 16-year-old Sisamouth chose to study to become a hospital nurse in Phnom Penh which satisfied his parents. While studying in the city, Sisamouth learned how to sing and compose music by himself. Within one year, through his association with musician friends, he became famous at his school as a composer, musician and singer. His parents at home in Stung Treng, however, were not happy with this. Living with his aunt and uncle in Phnom Penh, Sisamouth only had enough money sent by his parents to buy study books. So, Sisamouth then spent his free time at home, writing songs and singing them quietly in private. When Cambodia gained independence from France in 1953, the National Radio invited him to be a singer in its band. He had finished his medical study and was working at a hospital in Phnom Penh. Particularly skillful at the mandolin, Sisamouth wrote songs and composed music using this instrument, searching for musically poetic rhythms. Most of his songs, which he prepared carefully by using books and dictionaries, were about families and their love, successes, failures, happiness and pain. Sisamouth was later invited to join the Royal Property's Music Band. He accompanied King Sihanouk, traveling to perform traditional music and songs in many countries. At 23, Sisamouth married one of his cousins, Khao Thang Nhoth, and had three sons and one daughter. The singer and one of his sons died during the Khmer Rouge period. Chanchaya said his father was separated from the family when the Khmer Rouge entered Phnom Penh in 1975. The family was sent to Kratie. Nobody knows where, when or how he died but some people say he was killed by the Khmer Rouge at Toul Sleng - the regime's most brutal prison - along with other singers and actors who were particularly hated by the rebels. He would have been just over 40 years old. During nearly four years under Khmer Rouge rule, Sisamouth's songs were banned and his records destroyed along with all sorts of entertainment. The brutal regime collapsed in 1979 but later the communists also denied the people anything they deemed an imperialist remnant - including Sisamouth's tunes, even though none are political songs. Through years of suppression, Khmer people were only allowed to amuse themselves with revolutionary, non-love songs and music. Though the later communist regime was a lot more relaxed than Pol Pot's Democratic Kampuchea, people still found it almost impossible to procure their favorite, old musical recreation. https://www.phnompenhpost.com/nationa...