Gregory Cahill and Kat Baumann‘s The Golden Voice: The Ballad of Cambodian Rock’s Lost Queen is coming from Humanoids’ Life Drawn imprint this October. The Golden Voice tells the life story of influential singer Ros Serey Sothea who rose to fame in Sixties Cambodia previous to her disappearance throughout the Khmer Rouge regime.
The Golden Voice will probably be accessible in bookshops October 10, and comedian retailers from October 11, 2023. Digital copies can even be accessible for buy. The e-book can even include a QR code that may permit readers to entry a playlist of Ros Serey Sothea’s music.
According to the press launch:
“There is a saying in Cambodia: Music is the soul of a nation.
“Perhaps nobody embodied that spirit greater than Ros Serey Sothea, a younger lady who would endlessly change the panorama of Cambodian music as the Queen with the Golden Voice. From a humble rice farmer to celebrity singer, Sothea’s success captured the hearts of the Khmer individuals. Throughout her life, she recorded over 500 songs, her signature angelic voice hovering over genres from conventional ballads to psychedelic rock and past.
“As war raged, Sothea continued to sing, even as she served as one of the country’s first female paratroopers but after years of bloody conflict, the Khmer Rouge seized control, murdering artists and destroying their music, and resulting in the disappearance of Sothea, whose true fate is unknown to this day.”
The title “Golden Voice” is not any accident as the late King and Prime Minister of Cambodia Norodom Sihanouk had reportedly dubbed her “the golden voice of the royal capital”. Born 1948, Ros Serey Sothea’s profession took off in the mid-to-late Sixties the place she merged her singing type with exterior influences from America and Europe to nice recognition. She was disappeared throughout the Khmer Rouge purges someday round 1977.
Writer Gregory Cahill, who can be an Emmy Award profitable producer, has been enthralled by the life and music of Ros Serey Sothea for a while – having already directed an award-winning 2006 brief movie about her life underneath the similar title, The Golden Voice. This graphic novel, delivered to life by illustrator Kat Baumann, acts as an growth of this earlier story, with 17 years of further analysis. It additionally advantages from the hand of designer Cindy Sous, music archivist and founder of the Cambodian Vintage Music Archive, Rotanak Oum, and the testimony of Ros Serey Sothea’s surviving household.
Ros Saboeun, elder sister of Ros Serey Sothea, stated:
“I would like to express my deepest gratitude to all those who have contributed to the emergence of THE GOLDEN VOICE, a book about my sister Ros Serey Sothea. On the occasion of the English version release, I raise my ten fingers and pray for its success. Let her beautiful voice fill the hearts of humanity all over the world.”
Cahill stated,
“Ros Serey Sothea had a musical talent that was almost uncanny. She makes you feel her emotions within yourself, regardless of your language or generation. Not many singers possess that rare gift, and I believe that’s why her musical legacy has survived with such resilience. The Khmer Rouge endeavored to crush the human spirit, but her spirit was just too bright. I think the world is just a little bit better because she graced us with her gift for even a short time.”
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