A Change of Guard

សូមស្តាប់វិទ្យុសង្គ្រោះជាតិ Please read more Khmer news and listen to CNRP Radio at National Rescue Party. សូមស្តាប់វីទ្យុខ្មែរប៉ុស្តិ៍/Khmer Post Radio.
Follow Khmerization on Facebook/តាមដានខ្មែរូបនីយកម្មតាម Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/khmerization.khmerican

Monday 18 June 2012

Mini biography of Lok Sinn Sisamouth


Beloved Steung Treng

'Farewell' a song by Ung Nary



Sronoss Plearng by Ung Nary


NB: With thanks to a reader for pointing out Lok Ung Nary. Yes, his vocal can be easily mistaken for that of Sin Sisamouth by listeners, and perhaps, that's one reason why Ung Nary is not as 'well-known' as Sisamouth: he 'is' a victim of his own 'golden voice'? Never mind, we are thankful for your precious legacies regardless!




ត្បាល់កេរ្តិម៉ែ - Pat Sotheary



Am Euy Srey Am - DiNa & SreyNich




14 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hello my favorite School of vice!!!! Would you please post the history of Sdach Khmer by the name of Jaijatha #2 for me,young Khmer to read i want to know badly,i' ve heard that he married to yuon lady and giving khmer's land to yuon.When,where,and how?!??????

Young Khmer.

School of Vice said...

My dear Young Khmer,

You seem to be always several steps ahead of me in the curiosity department! [and possibly in other fields as well!].

I'm probably as much in the dark on this part of Khmer history as many people are. However, I'll try to find something to that end.

It is said that wise men learn from history and that foolish men learn from 'experience', so by even asking about such historical details or aspects of Cambodian history, you as an individual are already making meaningful contribution towards your people and country.

I can't promise anything at this point, but again I'll do my best.

Take care,

Anonymous said...

Hi School of Vice,

I admire your work.
Woud you please tell us a little bit about yourself and your organisation ?
Thank you

Khmer Girl

Anonymous said...

Many fans say they want singers whose voice is as good as Sin Sisamuth.

Personally I would say:I want a singer whose voice is also god, but different from Sin Sisamuth.

Anonymous said...

Dear All,

It took almost half a century for another good singer to appear in Cambodia.
This singer is blessed with a deeper vocal cord
than Mr. Sinn Sisamuoth. He even sings 6 songs, that I know off, better than his Idol. One of the songs is
" Rom Duol Stueng Sang Kae' ".
The only problem with this singer is, as I see it, his lack
of professional ambitions. Unlike Mr. Sisamuoth who
treasured his voice religiously, this singer cannot live
without Prah Hok ( dead, stinky, smelly, fermented fish ).
This singer name is Bun Thi, aka, Suos Suong Vieacha.

A Former Student of
Sinn Sisamuoth

Anonymous said...

Dear SOV would you help post the following text for our young reader
who likes to know about Jayajetta II. Thank you.

Part 1.
A SHORT HISTORY OF CAMBODIA FROM EMPIRE TO SURVIVAL
Tully, John A.

The first independent Vietnamese state had been established in
939 AD and afterwards their expansion southwards was inexorable. They
began to annex the Cham lands as early as 1069, and after sacking
the Cham capital in 1471 they forcibly assimilated their new subjects.
The road was also clear for them to begin to move into Cambodian
territory. In the 1620s, they began to move into the Khmer lands adjacent
to Champa north of the Mekong delta. Their task was made
easier by the disarray of the Cambodian government, which one historian
has described as ‘faction-ridden and under Siamese influence’. Vietnamese
influence at the Cambodian court was also growing during this period.
Borri mentions that in 1620 the ‘king of Cambogia’ (Jayajetta II) married
a Vietnamese princess in order to cement an alliance against the Siamese.
Jayajetta’s marriage was part of what was to become an ongoing process
in which the Cambodian state sought to play off its powerful neighbours
against one another in order to maintain some measure of sovereignty;
King Sihanouk would play a similar game during the 1950s and 1960s.
Given Cambodia’s increasing weakness vis-à-vis its neighbours, it was
probably the best diplomatic option down through the centuries to the
international Realpolitik of the 20th century.
In 1623, King Jayajetta II granted Vietnamese traders and settlers
permission to live and work near the Khmer town of Prey Nokor, situated
on a distributary of the Mekong delta, and the largest town in
that sparsely settled region of Cambodia. This was probably part of the
price of the king’s marriage to the Nguyen princess. The settlers’ numbers
steadily increased and in 1698 they set up a Vietnamese vice-royalty in
the district and renamed the town Saigon. Earlier, in 1658, a Vietnamese
army had penetrated deep into Cambodia-proper, only withdrawing the
following year. By 1780, the Vietnamese controlled almost the whole
of the lower delta region and the Camau Peninsula. In the delta, the
Vietnamese had carried out a process similar to that of the Israelis in
the present-day Occupied Territories of Palestine, of ‘creating political
facts on the ground’ by populating the region with settlers. It was a slowmotion
annexation in which the hapless Khmers were pushed over
the de facto border, or onto marginal lands. The 19th century French
historian Adhémard Leclère claimed that the Vietnamese settlers
provoked border incidents so as to be able to demand indemnities in
land from the Khmers.
Although almost half a million Khmer Krom still live in the Vietnamese
lower delta today, it is probable, as the distinguished
archaeologist and writer Louis Malleret has argued, that only the coming
of the French saved them from assimilation or extinction. The Khmers’
religion taught them resignation in the face of seemingly inevitable
misfortune and they would need every ounce of faith in a ‘historical
amphitheatre’ that, as Albert Camus reminds us, ‘has always contained
the martyr and the lion’ and where the ‘former relied on eternal
consolation and the latter on raw historical meat’. For their part,
metaphorically speaking, the Siamese tiger and the Vietnamese crocodile
had voracious appetites for Cambodian flesh. However, the designs
of Cambodia’s external enemies were assisted by periodic bouts of dynastic
feuding within the country itself and by the late 1770s, during
which decade the Siamese burned Phnom Penh, the country’s fortunes
were at their lowest ebb.

Anonymous said...

Part 2.

From the 18th century onwards, Cambodia became a tributary
state of its neighbours, a common form of foreign relations in Southeast
Asia and one originally developed by the Chinese. The Cambodian
kings were expected to pay annual tribute in ritual ceremonies in Hué
or Bangkok. Gifts and letters would be exchanged, underlining the
dependent status of the vassal monarch at Phnom Penh. In its turn,
Vietnam was expected to acknowledge its own tributary status with
regard to China. There were differences in the relationships between
Cambodia and its neighbours. There was a sharp cultural divide between
Cambodia and Vietnam; although both countries were based economically
on wet rice cultivation, Vietnam was a Sinitic society and shared
much of its powerful northern neighbour’s cultural, social and political
institutions. Vietnam, like China, based its system of government
and administration on the principles of Confucius. The Vietnamese
also shared the cult of ancestor worship, Chinese calligraphy and many
aspects of family life. Like China, Vietnam was a bureaucratised state
with a high degree of centralisation and social stratification. Its people
generally ascribed to the tenets of Mahayana Buddhism, although
French missionaries had been rather more successful in Vietnam than
in Cambodia.
Cambodia, on the other hand, shared an Indianised cultural tradition
with its other neighbour, Siam, and both countries practised
the Theravada brand of Buddhism, leavened with residual Hindu
and animist influences. Government and administration was looser and
these dissimilarities were reflected in the differences in relations between
the three countries. For the Vietnamese, the Khmers were by definition
barbarians to be punished, patronised or civilised, depending on the
situation. The Siamese, who shared much of the culture of Cambodia,
were often more tolerant and tended to view the Khmers as children,
albeit unruly and disobedient ones. This would explain the frequent
resort to stern measures, as for instance when they burned down Phnom
Penh in 1772, and invaded the country in 1811, 1833 and again in the
1840s. However, it is clear they also felt some sense of responsibility
for the fate of their Theravadist neighbour, whose capital lay much
closer to Vietnam than to Siam.
Until the 19th century the actions of Siam and Vietnam in
Cambodia were usually constrained by the desire on both sides to avoid
an all-out military collision with each other. Although they continually
intrigued and jockeyed for power and influence in the kingdom,
they both understood that it was in their interests to allow Cambodia
to exist as a semi-independent buffer state. This did not stop them from
pushing home the advantage when the other was preoccupied with other
problems, as when the Nguyen dynasty was confronted with the Tay
Son rebellion in Vietnam, or when the Siamese were distracted by wars
with Burma. The situation changed in the early 19th century when
the Vietnamese decided on a policy of territorial and cultural assimilation.
The resulting chaos and instability almost destroyed Cambodia.

Thank again for your help!!!

KPCS

Anonymous said...

Now in 2012 we Khmers must UNITE as one
people, and fight off the aggressors.
A bullet would blow out Yuon's brains or Siem's
as soon as it hits them.
Be brave, Khmers !
You know your history.

KILL OR BE KILLED !!!

Anonymous said...

12:12 PM, I disagree with you. Suos Sorng Veacha's voice or his singing ability is nothing near Sin Sisamouth's voice/ability. In fact, if we rate Sin Sisamouth with a score of 10, Suos Sorng Veacha will only get 6.

Another Sin Sisamouth had been discovered since the 1970s. His name was Ung Nary. His voice was almost the same as Sin Sisamouth's. If people do not listen to him carefully, they will mistake his voice as Sin Sisamouth's voice. If you go and listen to his songs in Youtube, you will know what I mean.

Anonymous said...

HI,

Of course, you are entitled to your own opinion.
If Ung Nary is that good, as you claimed, why don't we hear him sincce 1970 ?
Nonetheless, I check him out.
Thanks

Former Student of
Sinn Sisamuoth

Anonymous said...

4:39 AM, He sang since the 1970s, but many people thought many of Ung Nary's songs as Sin Sisamouth's song because their voices are almost identical.

I am surprised that you were a student of Sin Sisamouth and did not know who Ung Nary was. I am a young generation, and I listened to most of his songs but always thought that they were Sin Sisamouth's songs until I looked at his name on the album cover.

Have a listen to this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKGoNE4TjcQ

Here another one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1WwvLrJKSw

Here are more: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZfoAtdXr_I

Here more: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJLHoyMZ9eg&feature=related

More here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKSUVVSea-4&feature=related

Many people, including me, thought these songs were sung by Sin Sinsamouth, but they were sung by Ung Nary (some people wrote his name as Eng Nary, which is wrong).

I hope you are clear.

Anonymous said...

To 8:17am,

Thank you for your info.
I definitely will check him out.
Yes, I was one the 20 students of Mr. Sinn
Sisamuoth.
Organised by the Ministry of Information, Mr.
Sisamuoth taught a summer school class at a
High School on Vithei Trassaok Phaem, near
Lyce' Sisowath, in Phnom Penh.
With his personal mandeline,he taught us both how to sing, and read musical
notes.
Those were the good old days !

Again, I sure thank you.

Anonymous said...

School of Vice,

Thank you very much for all of the songs posted here.

Pissed off

Anonymous said...

8:17 AM,

Thank you very much for the links to Ung Nary's songs.

I agree that his voice is quite close to that of Mr. Sin Sisamuth.

Pissed off