Ros Serey Sothea, Cambodia’s “Queen with the Golden Voice.” Born into a poor farming family in Battambang around 1948, she rose to become one of the defining stars of Cambodian music in the 1960s and early 1970s.

She recorded hundreds of songs before her career was cut short by the Khmer Rouge takeover in 1975. She disappeared during the genocide and is presumed to have died; the exact circumstances remain unknown. Today, she is widely regarded as the greatest female vocalist of Cambodia’s musical golden age.

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Located on the walls of the German Embassy in Phnom Penh.

September 2026