Artist

ก้อง สหรัถ

Thai Pop

About the Artist

ก้อง ห้วยไร่ (Kong Huayrai) is a Thai singer-songwriter whose music sits at the intersection of phleng phuea chiwit — the folk-rooted "songs for life" tradition — and rougher-edged Thai rock. He has been writing and performing since 1987, building a catalog that deals in rural identity, social commentary, and working-class storytelling in the vein of the genre's founding artists. His following is still relatively intimate, which tends to mean a more direct, unguarded show than you'd get from the arena circuit.