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September 26, 2022
Cambodian artists to make second debut in Paris next month

Two Cambodian artists Vuthea and RuthKo are slated to perform in Paris to represent Cambodian Hip-Hop and present to the world the emergence and artistic renewal of Cambodian youth through the musical scene next month.

Vuthea and RuthKo, the two main artists from Cambodia and Sok Visal, the founder of the KlapYaHandz Music Record from Phnom Penh will join the show in Paris, France on October 14 with about eight French Asian artists (singers and DJs) expected to perform the day of the show, said Event Co-organiser Hélène MALTERRE.

In a press statement issued on the weekend, event organisers said that in partnership with Samaki Kohn Khmer Association, Sabay Events will organise and introduce modern Cambodian music live for the second time, to create a link between France and Cambodia through these emerging young talented artists.

“Fusing between traditional and modern music, KlapYaHandz has created a sound that brings all generations together for all Khmer across the globe, ” the release said, adding that the performance will be held in Paris on October 14.
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RuthKo is a rising young rapper whose original music offers deeply personal lyricism complemented by a pop-influenced sound. A member of music collective and label KlapYaHandz, a trailblazer to the local rap scene since 2004, RuthKo began his career as a fan of the label before he was discovered by founder Sok Visal on YouTube doing video skits while studying in France.

He then eventually moved back to Cambodia in 2021, took a brief stint as a monk in a pagoda, and then joined the label’s extensive roster. Put shortly, everything else is history, and the rapper is now one of the rising hip hop artists in the country.

Focus tracks: “Change Part 2 (កែខ្លួន​ វគ្គ២)”; “Brotherhood” ft. Kontrey, SEANN; “And Again (Part 2)” ft. Izame Siva
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And Vuthea...

Another homegrown KlapYaHandz talent, Vuthea is a singer and songwriter inspired by the likes of “King of Khmer Music” Sin Sisamuth and Michael Jackson. With a flair for mixing genres from hip hop to pop and rock, the artist captures the rapturous joy of youth—very much mirroring his own experiences as an artist who first honed his musical skills while in high school.

Aside from his pop inspirations, he also cites being inspired by the “Golden Era” of music in Cambodia, beginning from its independence from France in 1953, roughly until 1970, when civil war broke out. This nostalgia for artistic and cultural reinvention has inspired many other artists like Vuthea, while he has taken up this inspiration by putting the innocence and free-spiritedness of being young into his music.

Focus tracks: “អូនសាសន៍អី (Oun Sas Ey) Remix” ft. Siva; “ក្រមុំបីស្តាយ (Kromom 3 Styles)”; “អូនសាសន៍អី (Oun Sas Ey)” ft. DJ Chee
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