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FAITH LAPIDUS: Cambodian-American singer and songwriter Bochan Huy grew up in Oakland, California. She has just released her first album, called "Full Monday Moon."
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For this song, Bochan Huy began with a Cambodian classic, "I Am 16." The original song came from the Cambodian rock music of the nineteen sixties and seventies. That was before the communist Khmer Rouge took control of the country.
Her version of the song is something completely new, she says.
Singer Bochan Huy
BOCHAN HUY: "I kind of describe 'Chnam Oun Dop Pram Mouy' as sort of like a new culture. It's a melting pot of everything that I've absorbed: from living in Oakland, from being Cambodian, and from being American. It's Cambodian-American."
The song is included on "Full Monday Moon." Bochan Huy says she wrote the album after the death of her father. He had been a refugee and a musician who loved classic Cambodian songs.
BOCHAN HUY: "The only way that I felt that he was still around was to do music. That was something the Khmer Rouge did not take away from him. He was able to bring that from Cambodia to here."
BOB DOUGHTY: She produced the album in a New York studio for an independent record label. She says much of Cambodia's own music industry favors new recordings of classic songs and avoids experimentation.
BOCHAN HUY: "I think it's because so many Cambodians have held on to that generation, you know. That's when things were good. It was before the Khmer Rouge war. And so it's going to be a challenge to kind of get people to let go of that and go, 'OK, you know, I think we're ready to move on.'"
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