If you don’t happen to speak Hmong, you won’t know exactly the poetry of the words, but you can feel the emotion of the kwv txhiaj. There are five different video channels in artist Pao Houa Her’s ...

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 ...

Explore Hmong cultural preservation through music, focusing on the styles of lug txaj and kwv txhiaj Discover the deep historical roots of Hmong folk singing, a tradition that originated in China and ...

Tou Saiko Lee is a Hmong song writer, singer, a mentor, a storyteller and a spoken word artist who utilize Hip-Hop music to collaborate with his grandmother and aunty as well as Hmong singers to sing ...

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 ...