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Nga Caravan
Date of birth: 29 April 1948 (78 years old)
Place of birth: Rattanaburi, Surin, Thailand
Occupation: Singer-songwriter
Instruments: Guitar
Nga Caravan (Surachai Jantimathawn) is a Thai singer-songwriter, poet and novelist, a pioneer of phleng phuea chiwit. He was born on 29 April 1948 in Rattanaburi district, Surin, into a family of Khmer descent, and studied at the College of Fine Arts in Bangkok.
In the mid-1970s he co-founded the folk-rock band Caravan, for which he sings and plays acoustic guitar to this day; the band's Man and Buffalo became an anthem of the genre. After the events of October 1976 he spent several years in the jungle and returned after the 1979 amnesty. His solo albums include Duang Phen (1982) and Khon Ti Lek (1983), and he has published poetry and fiction. He received the Sriburapha Award in 2005 and was named National Artist in literature in 2010. He plays Big Mountain Music Festival and Road For Life 5.
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