The Most Famous
SINGERS from Cambodia
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Cambodian Singers of all time. This list of famous Cambodian Singers is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Sinn Sisamouth (1933 - 1976)
With an HPI of 58.58, Sinn Sisamouth is the most famous Cambodian Singer. His biography has been translated into 15 different languages on wikipedia.
Sinn Sisamouth (c. 1932 – c. 1976) was a Cambodian singer-songwriter active from the 1950s to the 1970s. Widely considered the "King of Khmer Music", Sisamouth, along with Ros Serey Sothea, Pen Ran, Mao Sareth, and other Cambodian artists, was part of a thriving pop music scene in Phnom Penh that blended elements of Khmer traditional music with the sounds of rhythm and blues and rock and roll to develop a Cambodian rock sound. Sisamouth died during the Khmer Rouge regime under circumstances that are unclear.
People
Pantheon has 1 people classified as Cambodian singers born between 1933 and 1933. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased Cambodian singers include Sinn Sisamouth. As of April 2024, 1 new Cambodian singers have been added to Pantheon including Sinn Sisamouth.
