5/25/2023 0 Comments Thai old country music![]() She started singing in small community events, which soon led to bigger projects: she joined a musical group with fellow farang (foreigner) luk thung singer Jonas Anderson, trained with noted foreign and Thai vocal coaches, and soon found herself singing on stage and television and working on projects to promote Thai culture. ![]() “Luk thung music was playing everywhere I went - in restaurants, shops, marketplaces, blaring from pickup trucks, and from the portable radios carried around by the farmers as they worked in their rice fields, so it was very natural for me to pick up.” Interested in music as far back as she can remember, Christy was surrounded by the beats of Issan during the time her family lived in northeast Thailand. “As we were young, we adapted very quickly to our surroundings, to the food, the climate, the language, and I felt at home right away.”
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