A YAMAHA Artiste, Bong is Asia's face for it's BBNE2 (Nathan East signature) product. He is one of Singapore's first call Electric Bass Guitarist. Well known in the music circuit and having sessioned for numerous concert tours, he also composes music for tvc jingles & albums. He is famed for his prolific jazz-fusion funk performances.Trained in the SAF Music & Drama Company in the 80s, he furthered his musical knowledge from the streets playing initially with jazz musicians: The Manhattan Transfer, Ernie Watts, Jeremy Monteiro, Paul Ponnudorai, Eugene Pau & Farid Ali. He later expanded his playing into the pop circle and has concert-toured extensively in Asia with Chinese recording artistes like: Leslie Cheung, Stefanie Sun Yanzi, Sandy Lam, Francis Yip and Eric Moo. He has also done many album recordings in Hong Kong, Taipei and Singapore for Andy Lau, Jacky Cheung, Na Ying, Anita Mui etc.On the home front, he has been roped several times by the National Arts Council and the Singapore Government to play for the likes for their 'International Olympic Committee’ city selection event, with the late President Ong Teng Cheong for a Charity TV show and many other high profile events like the prestigious 2009 Edinburgh Arts Festival.Hailing from a jazz-fusion background, his influences are: Jaco Pastorius, John Patitucci, Marcus Miller, Azymuth, Casiopea and Shakatak. He was on the Bass faculty of La-Salle College of the Arts, and is now with the Yamaha music group as Bass head. He also served on the project team of Creative Technology, when they created its first MP3 player – the Nomad.A first call sessionist, on top of his chinese pop concert tours in the region, he has performed for Grammy Award Jazz category winner - Nestor Torres, the ASEAN Jazz Festival & regional Heineken Jazz Festivals, WOMAD etc delivering his fusion grooves. Juggling performances with teaching, he's one of Singapore's busiest musician.Plain MySpace Layouts by Iron Spider
