Chung Chun-to (born 23 February 1953), 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.
Bee made his break into the Hong Kong entertainment industry in 1973 as a member of the popular 1970s band, the Wynners (溫æ¿æ¨ÂéÂÂ), 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.
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, (directed by Li Hsing, 1979), Good Morning, Taipei (directed by Li Hsing, 1979), both of which won the Golden Horse Award, and The Green, Green Grass of Home (directed by Hou Hsiao-hsien, 1983).
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" (directed by Alfred Cheung, 1983), "Shanghai Blues" (directed by Tsui Hark, 1984), "Fist of Fury 1991" (with Stephen Chow, 1991), "the Chinese Feast" (directed by Tsui Hark, 1995) and "Initial D" (directed by Andrew Lau and Alan Mak, 2005). In addition, he was credited as the director for "100 Ways to Murder Your Wife" (starring himself, Chow Yun-fat and Anita Mui, 1986).
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" (è®Âä¸ÂÃ¥ÂÂé¨風), "If We Were Meant To Be" (è¦Âæ¯æÂÂç·£), "Red Leaves Fell As I Feel Lonesome" (ç´ èÂÂæÂÂè½æÂÂå¿Âå¯Âå¯ÂæÂÂ), which was the Cantonese cover of Right Here Waiting by Richard Marx, and "A Romance" (ä¸Â段æ ).
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 (濤åºæ°天), 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.
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 (Blythe), born in 2004, and Chung Kwok (Eloise), born in 2010.
In December 2007, Bee released an autobiography, MacDonnell Road, named after a street in Hong Kong he grew up on.