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Chhom Nimol was born in Cambodia and for a time her family lived in a refugee camp in Thailand. She learned how to sing from her family, who are well-known musicians and singers in Cambodia. [1] In 1997, she won Cambodia's Apsara Awards, a national singing competition. She emigrated to the United States in 2001. [2]
Oct 26, 2023 · How this Cambodian American singer found her voice. Chhom Nimol is the lead singer of Dengue Fever. Chhom Nimol, the lead singer in the band Dengue Fever, said she didn’t always want to sing. Her guitar-playing brother encouraged her, she said, but her dream while growing up in a refugee camp on the Cambodian border was to be an actress.
Feb 14, 2017 · The problem was finding an authentic voice to sing it. In 2001 they began making regular trips to Long Beach, home to about 50,000 Cambodians, to check out resident bands in the clubs there. “Eventually we ended up at the best place called Dragon House,” says Holtzman. “There were five singers on stage – all of a sudden, Nimol started ...
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Nov 5, 2015 · Chhom Nimol is the lead singer of the Cambodian band, Dengue Fever. She and the other band members have brought their own perspective to the forgotten Cambodian songs of the 1960s and ’70s which were banned under the brutal Khmer Rouge regime. Felicity Finch met Nimol during their recent tour. One of only a few surviving photos of the Chhom ...
Chhom Nimol, the lead singer in the band Dengue Fever, said she didn’t always want to sing. ... Nimol was born in Cambodia under the regime of the Khmer Rouge, which ruled and terrorized ...
