The way Elvis Thao sees it, Hmong rock band the Sounders, and their frontman Thai Thao (no relation), are "never going to die." "(Thai Thao) will be that Jimi Hendrix, that Babe Ruth, he's the ...

Chiang Mai archivist and musician Victoria Vorreiter published a book on tribal music, Songs Of Memory: Traditional Music Of The Golden Triangle, in 2009. Since then she has been busy travelling, ...

Kwv txhiaj is a Hmong musical form that has its origins in southern China and Southeast Asia, is several centuries old and is kept alive through its singers. One of them happens to call the US Midwest ...

Era Brand is one of the six brands that will be featured in the Hmong Thai Fashion Show in St. Paul on Saturday. Emily Bright: Well, happy Minnesota Fashion Week to all those who celebrate. An ...

Hundreds of low-budget Hmong language films—comedies, action films, horror films, historical fiction movies, documentaries and others—have been produced for Hmong American audiences since the 1990s.

This article originally appeared on PRI.org on May 26, 2016, and is republished here as part of a content-sharing agreement. Think of kwv txhiaj as song poetry. Or better yet, think of it like a Hmong ...