Phnom Penh Post
Skylines don’t tell the story of the city when you can’t see. Phnom Penh has transformed since Kong Nai first arrived, at the request of the Ministry of Culture, in the early 1990s, and although he hasn’t been able to watch the expansion, he has been listening intently.
For the past two decades the blind father of 10, who is also one of Cambodia’s most beloved traditional musicians, has been playing the chapei dong veng – a traditional long-necked, two-string guitar – for audiences around the city and the world. At the age of 65, the man can still strum and sing with a whole lot of soul, but he’s taking more time to sit back in his hammock and “just think about which words sound good together”.
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