Kenny Bee

Chung Chun-to, also known as Kenny Bee, is a Hong Kong singer and actor. He rose to fame as the frontman of the Wynners, with whom he won the Golden Needle Award, the highest honor in Hong Kong music, in 1989. He received the award again in 2016 as a solo artist.

Career

Bee made his break into the Hong Kong entertainment industry in 1973 as a member of the popular 1970s band, the Wynners, sharing vocal duties with Alan Tam. Before joining the Wynners, he was a vocalist and saxophonist on the Hong Kong nightclub circuit, and briefly fronted a band called the Sergeant Majors.

Acting

As members of the Wynners went their separate ways in 1978, Bee embarked on a solo career as an actor in Taiwan, playing lead roles in a number of romantic movies, including The Story of a Small Town,, Good Morning, Taipei, both of which won the Golden Horse Award, and The Green, Green Grass of Home.
In the eighties Bee returned to Hong Kong, and has since amassed a large number of movie credits, mainly in romantic comedies. Career highlights include "Let's Make Laugh", "Shanghai Blues", "Fist of Fury 1991", "the Chinese Feast" and "Initial D". In addition, he was credited as the director for "100 Ways to Murder Your Wife".

Musicianship

Bee has released over fifty studio and compilation albums to date, in Cantonese, Mandarin and English. The 1980s marked the peak of Bee's popularity with the Hong Kong audience so far,
during which four of his studio albums went gold and two went platinum.
Notable hits from this period include "Let Everything Be Gone With the Wind", "If We Were Meant To Be", "Red Leaves Fell As I Feel Lonesome", which was the Cantonese cover of Right Here Waiting by Richard Marx, and "A Romance".
Known for a distinct, husky voice, the singer penned most of his own hits and plays multiple instruments. In the early days he was often seen on stage with keyboards or a saxophone. In recent performances he usually accompanies himself with a guitar.
Bee released his latest Cantonese solo album, Escape, in December 2006, backed by his new band Black Tea.
Bee partnered with violin luthier Scott Cao to design their own line of classical guitars, "Bonstar." In 2008, Bee performed a series of solo concerts at the Hong Kong Coliseum, as well as in Singapore and Macau. Aside from working solo, the Wynners continued their world tour.

Personal life

Bee has a blood brother and six half brothers and sisters. He married socialite Teresa Cheung in 1988, with whom he had a son, Nicholas Bee, and a daughter, Chloe Bee. The marriage ended in a high-profile and acrimonious divorce in 1999. Bee filed for personal bankruptcy in 2002, which expired on 17 October 2006.
His second wife is Fan-Chiang Su-zhen, with whom he married in 2014. They have two daughters, Chung Yee, born in 2004, and Chung Kwok, born in 2010.
In December 2007, Bee released an autobiography, MacDonnell Road, named after a street in Hong Kong he grew up on.

Filmography/Television

Discography

Cantonese albums

閃閃星辰 – 1980
不可以不想你 – 1981
說愛就愛 – 1983
要是有緣 – 1983
我行我素 – 1984.07
鍾鎮濤精選 – 1984
痴心的一句 – 1985.01
鍾鎮濤 – 1985.09
鍾鎮濤: 淚之旅/太多考驗 – 1985
情變 – 1986.05
鍾鎮濤: 香腸、蚊帳、機關槍/原諒我 – 1986
最佳鍾鎮濤 – 1986
寂寞 – 1987.03
聽濤 – 1987.10
晴 – 1988.05
情有獨鍾 – 1988.10
人潮內... 我像獨行 – 1989.03
看星的日子 – 30 November 1989
B歌 – 1989
鍾鎮濤 – 1990
不死鳥 – August 1990
仍是真心 – August 1992
全部為你 – January 1994
鍾鎮濤金曲精選 – 1993.12
88極品音色系列: 鍾鎮濤 Kenny Bee – 1997.07
B計劃 – March 1998
B歌集 – 1998.07
鍾鎮濤dCS聲選輯 – 2000.02
俠骨仁心原聲專輯 – 2001.04.20
真經典鍾鎮濤 – 2001.07.27
還有你 – 2002.08.22
濤出新天 – 2006.12.29
佛誕吉祥 – 2009
Mandarin albums
我的伙伴 – 1979.05.09
早安台北 – 1979.08.20
白衣少女 – 1980
鍾鎮濤專輯 – 1981
鍾鎮濤 – 1982
表錯七日情 – 1983
哦！寶貝‧為甚麼 – 1983
詩人與情人 – 1989.02
捨不得•這樣的日子 – 1989
捨不得 – 1990
飄 – 1990.09
活出自己 – 1991.06
我的世界只有你最懂 – 1992.06
祝你健康快樂 – 1993.09
情人的眼睛 – 1994.02
簡簡單單的生活 – 1994
《煙鎖重樓》 – 1994.11.22
情歌對唱集 – 1995.05
痴心愛你 – 1995.06
男人 – 2004.02.16
English albums
Why Worry – 1997