Kong Nay

Kong Nay (b. March 15, 1944 in Kampot Province, Cambodia) is a Cambodian musician from Kampot Province in southwestern Cambodia who plays a traditional long-necked fretted plucked lute called chapei dang veng. He is one of relatively few great masters to have survived the Khmer Rouge era, and is known as the "Ray Charles of Cambodia".[1]

Kong Nay playing the chapei dang veng, Phnom Penh, 2007

He received the 2017 Fukuoka Arts and Culture Prize.[2][3]

References
  1. Naren, K & Michelle, V. "Cambodian Arts Legend Kong Nay Receives Asian Art Prize". The Cambodia Daily. Retrieved 10 May 2018.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  2. Sotheary, Pech. "Music legend Kong Nay wins Japan arts prize". Khmer Times. Retrieved 10 May 2018.
  3. "Arts and Culture Prize 2017 - 28th - KONG Nay". Fukuoka Prize. Retrieved 10 Jan 2021.
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