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| p r a C h ( c e o : mujestic records ) co - c e o : the A.V.E. ) 1/4 NorthStarResurrec ) Long Beach CA. / Jacksonville FL. |
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. : Current-PROJECTS : .
DALAMA... " memoirs of the invisible war " ( 2 disc album )
release date : 2009 / 2010
written, produce, and directed by : praCh
Mujestic Records 2010
link: www.mujestic.com/dalama____memoirs_of_the_invisible_war_
RESIDUE ( the movie )
release date : unkown
screen play / script: Jared Davis, and praCh
for the full leaght feature
link: http://www.residuethemovie.com/
Rice Field of Dreams ( film )
release date : 2009/2010
directed by : Daron Ker
music by : praCh
Sony Classic Pictures / Water Buffalo Pictures
links : www.waterbuffalopics.com
The Bassac Project "
release date : unknown ( documentary film )
written by: praCh, Silong, Thy Pech.
produce by : World Education, W. Alec, T. Charley, the A.V.E,
Mujestic Records 2010
link: www.mujestic.com/cambodia___bassac_project
DALAMA "W.M.D.". ( book ) "
release date : UnKnown
Author : praCh
publish by : MANOA University of Hawai'i Press
link: manoajournal.hawaii.edu/text/issues/descriptions/cambodia04.html
' power, territory and riCe ' ( feature film )
release date : UnKnown, currently casting
written by: Sojean Peou
produce by : P. Sojean, praCh, Marcus.
Mujestic Records and Apsara Film Group
link: www.apsarafilmgroup.com/powerterritoryandric.htm
Sin Sisamuth ' ( feature film )
release date : UnKnown, currently casting
written and documented by: Bunly C. Silong C.
produce by : Yet to be announce
*- we are currently fund raising for this film
and will need all the help we can get !
www. m u j e s t i c .com
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. : B I O : .
p r a C h
born in the farmland of Cambodia but raise on the mean streets of America. He received international attention with his first album 'DALAMA..."the end'n is just the beginnin". His highly anticipated follow-up album 'DALAMA.."the lost chapter." catapults his status into raps elites. Through masterful lyrics of powerful rap music, his music educates young and old about the Cambodian genocide and the life in the Cambodian community. His music/lyrics has been publish by Manoa, for the book " In the shadow of Angkor"; which is being use for south east Asians studies in colleges and universities, he is also working on film documentary and has collaborated with many other movies productions. Newsweek proclaim him as the "pioneer of Khmer Rap" and "the first Cambodian rap star." He's also the CEO of Mujestic Records, youngest coordinator of the Cambodian New Year for 2002, in 2003 he release Dalama..."the lost chapter." which independently sold 200,000 plus, and in 2004 he went on a 23 states tour across the United States. In January 2005 he return for the first time to his home land Cambodia and his extraordinary journey was documented by NHK for the second time. the first NHK documentary on praCh won NHK's Best Documentary of the year of 2004. He toured many Collages campus and Universities such as CSLB, CSF, UCLA, Columbia , Hawaii, Harvard, Stanford, Syracuse, Boston U.Mass, Yale, Brown, UC Berkly, NYC, and the Smithsonian in DC and also the different Universities in Cambodia. He is currently working on his last Dalama album which is titled; Dalama..."Memoirs of the Invisible War". And on April 16th, 2006 he was the GRAND MARSHAL at the 2nd Annual Cambodian New Year Parade. He has been feature and been written up by Cambodia Daily, Phnom Penh Post, Newsweek, Times Magazine, ABC, BBC, CBS, CNN, NBC, FOX, PBS, Press-Telegram, LA Times, Hmong Times, OC Weekly, 562 Magazine, Asia Week, Khmerconnection.com and many more. a highly recognized and respected community figure. praCh resides in Long Beach California/ Jacksonville Florida.
*1/4 member of NorthStarResurrec
* currently back in the lab work'n on new album and mixing and producing others.
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photograph by : Lucas Michael - Newsweek
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"Can you be famous but unknown? Can you unwittingly electrify the youth of a homeland
you left as a toddler? Can lyrics written in California bring a new generation
to face Cambodia's greatest modern horror? This is the miraculous story of how
a refugee named praCh accomplished all that, to his own astonishment."
* Gina Chon---CAMBODIAN DAILY
" praCh's incendiary tales of Cambodia's past, told in the defiant tones of rap,
hit Phnom Penh like a B-52 bombing raid."
* Adam Piore---NEWSWEEK-THE INTERNATIONAL NEWSMAGAZINE
" A brash new rap album made in Southern California is breaking the taboos
by telling young Cambodians about the darkest chapter of their country's history."
LOS ANGELES TIMES-newspapers
" Everyone wants to express themselves like these guys (praCh and his friends),
but they're afraid...In Cambodia, no one would dare say what those guys say.
It's inspirational."
NEW YORK POST-newspapers
" Long Beach rapper praCh could pass for a wise teen-ager with understanding parents.
But when he opens his mouth to rhyme, or when you listen to the fiery rap CD,
praCh an actor's son who is 22, sounds like he's 22 going on 50."
* Theo Douglas---L.B.PRESS-TELEGRAM-newspapers
" praCh has begun teaching local youths what parents and school have not...
Shattering the stereotype of a rapper praCh is polite and earnest."
* Wendy Thomas Russell---L.B.PRESS-TELEGRAM-newspapers
" The album has caught on among the trendy urban youth of the capital,
who often have access to MTV and English-language lessons."
ABCNews---news channels
" At parties, in bars and in homes around Phnom Penh, the album has
teen-agers buzzing about songs on death,forced labor and broken families."
CBSNews---news channels
" He said he never envisioned the music having an impact in Cambodia.
"I was very surprised at how big this got. When I did it,
it was just a demo, to pass around to a few friends,"
praCh said in a phone interview from Long Beach."
NBCNews---news channels
" He brings it to the new generation, and talk about reality, talk about society."
FOXNews---news channels
" These songs are a step forward."
CNN---news channels
" Story, from the evacuated streets of Phnom Penh to the
freestyle immigrant mix of Long Beach...
he deliver a blistering history lesson."
* Sheraz Sadiq---P.B.S. 'Frontline' - television
" He's awfully precise, this praCh...Dalama raised, in one way or another,
got Cambodia's moldering history books-victims of a
bury-the-past mindset-back in the schools."
* Rich Kane---O.C.WEEKLY-newspapers
"He's a genius. To use his rap lyrics to tell the stories of the immigrants...
I don't know of anyone else who's doing what he's doing,'
* Frank Stewart---MANOA -University of Hawaii Press
"praCh Ly is Long Beach's next Legend. The Cambodian rapper is
a leader and a visionary. By producing a bilingual album pack
with meaning and history. He electrified his homeland with
lyrics that relentless yet thoughtful.which reminds me of why
hip-hop was great in the first place."
* Mike Sonksen---562 magazine
" Khmer rap from California wakes up stifled generation in Cambodia.
Some people hope that praCh's music will kick-start
the creativity of a numb nation."
* Chris Decherd---ASSOCIATED PRESS
" I personally liked "Dalama" and I am proud to add it to my collection...
As I listened to the album, I found certain parts quite amusing."
* Poli Bou---KHMERCONNECTION.COM
" keep up the good work with your music, bro! i'm always looking forward
to hearing all of your new pieces. you hit on a lot of important issues
with your lyrical beats and you and your group has a lot of taste
in your music. keep it up, and you'll find yourself up at the top."
* Vibol Hul---KHMERCONNECTION.COM
" I have to admit? the brother has mad skills. From putting
lead to paper and drawing out sketches to spitting out lyrics.
Prach has an eye for detail and perfection.
There is method to his madness...I think this album:
( Dalama " the lost chapter.") is a testament to the evolution
of the individual whose heart beats in time with music
and whose flow is a fusion of experience and narrative genius."
* DemRaw---C-Hope.
"praCh is phenomenal!
praCh is a bi-lingual Khmer-American rapper.
He's smart, raw, talented, inspired,
and so so cool."
"I saw him performed two years ago in DC
and he blew me away! I don't normally
listen to rap, but this man had me
off my seat, bopping my head up and down,
laughing, and eyes glued on him.
When I turned to my neighbors,
I saw elder Khmer men and women doing
the same. praCh is a treasure to our community."
* Loung Ung: Activist, Author, Lecturer---.
"praCh Ly is the most authoritative voice
in Khmai and Khmai-American rap.
( Dalama..."memoirs of the invisible war." )
not only shows his music taking on new
beats and new sounds from traditional
and other sources. The lyrics focus
have a new focus on all of the Cambodian
tragedy from 1970 to the present.
Aware, furious, respectful,
precise --- this is political writing at its finest.
Like Nelson Mandela had rapped when he was young.
* Geoff Ryman: B.B.C. / Author---.
"its funny the way things turn out,
but one thing i do know is that..
the world is your stage baby;
and your the star. keep at it becuz
i know one day, you'll be on that
well deserved throne, sitting on
top of the world. happy early 22nd." =)
* [xoxoxo Chanda---best friend.
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