Aluna Thavonsouk

Biography

Singer, songwriter, music-video director and entrepreneur, Aluna Thavonsouk is one of the most popular voices in Lao pop. After high school in Vientiane, she studied in Australia on AusAID scholarships: marketing at Swinburne, then a degree in e-commerce and marketing at Deakin University in Melbourne (2000–2002). She has released three albums, “ALUNA”, “ALUNA Part II” (2008) and “The 3rd Diary” (2013), with several songs reaching number one on radio and TV charts. Best Female Singer at the Lao Music Awards in 2008 and 2012 and Best Female Artist at the Lao Entertainment Awards in 2014, she won Best Pop Song with “Khaumhouseuk bork” (2008) and “Ladokarn” (2012). She has performed in the United States, Japan, Malaysia, Vietnam, China, Indonesia, Thailand, the United Kingdom, Korea and France, including a tour in Paris in 2019. A committed artist, she wrote songs for the victims of the 2011 tsunami in Japan, for health workers facing Covid-19 (2020) and, with UNICEF, for vaccination (2021), and lends her voice to UNICEF, UNFPA and FAO campaigns. At the festival in Vientiane, she shares the stage with Iris Munos in “Et si Brel était une femme ?”.

Career

1. 2026

   France–Laos Festival — “Et si Brel était une femme ?” with Iris Munos, in Vientiane

2. 2021

   Song for Covid-19 vaccination, with UNICEF

3. 2020

   “Thank you”, a song dedicated to health workers; Korean ASEAN Music Festival

4. 2019

   Tour in Paris; American Music Fest

5. 2014

   Best Female Artist, Lao Entertainment Awards

6. 2013

   Third album, “The 3rd Diary”

7. 2012

   Best Female Singer, Lao Music Awards; Best Pop Song for “Ladokarn”

8. 2008

   Second album, “ALUNA Part II”; Best Female Singer, Lao Music Awards

9. 2005

   Tour of the United States

10. 2002

    Degree in e-commerce and marketing, Deakin University (Melbourne)

Artistic practice

Lao pop blending songwriting, social commitment and tradition.

Works & projects