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Thai rock is rock music from Thailand. Emerging in the 1980s it became widely popular in the 1990s. The sub-genre of string and pop rock began to flourish in the 1980s with bands like Asanee-Wasan and Micro. Later Thai rock was influenced by rock bands from the United States and United Kingdom. Thai rock bands have begun singing in Thai language.