Paul Wong

Paul Wong Koon-chung (born 黃貫中; 31 March 1964), known professionally as Paul Wong, is a Hong Kong musician, singer, songwriter and record producer. He achieved fame in Asia as the lead guitarist of the rock band Beyond until the band disbanded in 2005. After lead vocalist Wong Ka Kui's death, Wong became the lead vocalist and main songwriter for Beyond. He also earned the award "The Best Rock Singer" of the Hit Awards in 2012.

Biography 1964–2005: Early life and Beyond Paul Wong was born on 31 March 1964, growing up with father, mother and two younger brothers in Kowloon City. Still, his mother later lived separately from her husband and children as his parents divorced.

As a juvenile, he was the champion at a couple of art contests. Until he majored in design at Hong Kong Polytechnic College, he was invited by drummer Yip Sai Wing to handle a design project for Beyond's first concert. Later he became friends with them as well as a member replacing the former lead guitarist Chan Sze On. While he worked as a designer at an advertising company, he was meantime in progress of several pieces of design work, such as the envelope design of the cassette Goodbye Ideals (1986) and the clothing design for Contact of Life Concert (1991).

Regarding his vocal contribution to Beyond, he started off as the lead vocalist singing the lead on "Midnight Stray" (1988). In the same year, he later provided lead vocals on "The Ground", one of the band's big hits. Besides, he began to play roles in different television series, including Two of a Kind featuring Hacken Lee and Wong in the leading roles.

On 30 June 1993, the mainstay of Beyond Wong Ka Kui was deceased. Thereafter the remaining three members switched to Rock Records making the band's next album The 2nd Floor Flat (1994). After Wong Ka Kui's death, Paul Wong and Wong Ka Keung became the band's primary songwriters. In circa 1999, the media told that Paul Wong and Wong Ka Keung had discorded due to the difference between their musical ideas. Beyond in 2003 resumed conducting the concerts Beyond Beyond Beyond Live. Still, they held the band's final and break-up concert Beyond The Story Live in 2005.

1999–present: Solo career In late 1999, Wong launched his work as a solo singer while Beyond was taking a break. He formed the band Hann consisting of Jun Kung, Mak Man Wai (member of LMF) and Dino Acconci from the band Soler. Later on Wong established his own studio Polar Bear Studio. Afterward he signed a contract with Universal Records and then released Yellow Paul Wong (2001) and Black White (2001) in order. By these two albums, he won "The Gold Award as a Singer-songwriter" in Ultimate Song Chart Awards Presentation (2001 & 2002).

Wong showed his interest in musicals. In 2000 he played the protagonist Tony in the musical The Dream Broken in Victoria Harbour by troupe Theatre Space. The story was adapted from a broadway musical West Side Story, which was localised and whose background was moved to Hong Kong. At the performances, local conductor Henry Shek took the lead and played with Hong Kong New Philharmonic Symphonic Orchestra as all performers at the seashore of Hong Kong Cultural Centre.

In November 2002 Wong held his debut concert Play It Loud in Hong Kong Coliseum. After the contract with Universal had ended, he issued an album Existence (2004), where he invested in by himself.

In 2005 by the dissolution of Beyond, they ran eight sessions of Beyond The Story Live 2005 at Hong Kong Coliseum, which is the band's last world tour. Consequently, he worked as the musical supervisor for the musical Akapi Shooting Incident by Commercial Radio Hong Kong, in which Sammy Leung and Kitty Yuen engaged and Wong also wrote a few soundtracks.

In April 2006, Wong signed a contract with Chinese Warner Records to explore the market of the Mainland China. In October he conducted solo concerts at Hong Kong Coliseum, namely Paul Wong Hong Kong Concert 2006: The Music of Madman's Study.

Discography

Solo albums and EPs Release date Title Language Label January 2001 Yellow Paul Wong Cantonese Universal December 2001 Black White (黑白) Universal April 2002 Identical Root (同根) Universal November 2002 Play It Loud Universal July 2004 I Now Exists (我在存在) Pathe Records July 2007 I Now Exists Mandarin WOW Music October 2011 Concerto in A minor (A小調協奏曲) Cantonese / Mandarin WOW Music January 2013 Paul Wong Collection Mandarin WOW Music September 2025 Fragments (碎片) Cantonese

Songs for artists Year Single Artist Role 1997 "Distressed By Myself" (自尋煩惱) Andy Hui 1998 "Just Say Gooy-Bye" Karen Mok Songwriter 1999 "Nuts" (神經病) Jordan Chan 1999 "Don't Let Me Drink Too Much" (別讓我喝太多) Andy Hui 1999 "I Can't" Andy Hui 1999 "On My God" (我的天) Karen Mok 1999 "Awesome" (了不起) Lawrence Chou Songwriter, Lyricist 2000 "A Black Tie" (黑色領帶) Daniel Chan Songwriter, Arranger 2000 "Drive" Kang Jingchun (康淨淳) Songwriter 2000 "Everyone Is Mad" (所有人是傻) Nicholas Tse 2001 "Good Dog" (好狗) Jan Lamb 2002 "Elegance Wins the Heaven" (美麗勝天國) Wong He Songwriter 2002 "Rainy Days" Athena Chu Songwriter, Producer 2002 "Jump Up" (跳起來) Athena Chu 2002 "New Colourful World" (彩色新天地) Johnny Tseng (曾國銘) Songwriter 2002 "We Can Change" Wong Ka Ming (王嘉明) Songwriter, Arranger 2003 "Overnight Feud" (隔夜仇) Hacken Lee Songwriter, Producer 2003 "Understand, okay" (明白了吧) Hacken Lee 2004 "How Much Can You Love" (可以幾愛) Ella Koon 2004 "Awesome (了不起)" Andy Hui Songwriter 2004 "Marlon Brando" (馬龍白蘭度) Andy Lau 2004 "Your Majesty" (萬歲) Jordan Chan Songwriter 2004 "Saturday Night" Andy Hui Songwriter, Producer 2004 "Don't Provoke Me" (不要惹我) Athena Chu 2004 "Ah-oh" 2004 "Spell" (法術) 2004 "I Win" (我贏了) 2004 "A Queen in Trouble" (落難皇后) Gigi Leung 2005 "Where Are You" (你在哪裡) Fiona Sit Producer 2006 "Good Brothers" (好兄弟) Softhard 2008 "A Representative Wife" (標準太太) Josie Ho 2008 "A Poisoned Scorpion" (中毒蠍子) Songwriter, Arranger 2008 "Not a Doll" (不是娃娃) Elanne Kwong Songwriter, Producer 2008 "Starting Off" (出發) Liu Xuan 2008 "An Inflatable Doll" (充氣娃娃) Shino Lin Songwriter 2008 "Go Go Dragon" (GO GO 飛龍) Jan Lamb Songwriter, Producer 2009 "Authentic" (不加塑) Keeva Mak (麥家瑜) Songwriter, Arranger 2009 "Hong Kong Hong Kong" (香港香港) Alan Tam 2009 "Last Time the Last Time" (上次無下次) 2009 "Poors" (窮鬼) Jan Lamb 2009 "Never Said Goodbye" Juno Mak Arranger, guitar 2011 "Ignorant During Youthhood" (年少無知) Bowie Lam, Moses Chan, Kenny Wong (黃德斌) Songwriter, Producer 2015 "A Virtuous Robber" (盜亦有道) Alex Chia (謝中傑)

Filmography Film Year Role Sworn Brothers 1987 No Regret The Black Wall 1989 The Fun, the Luck & the Tycoon Happy Ghost IV 1990 Beyond's Diary 1991 Daddy, Father and Papa Love and Let Love! 1998 The Boss Up There 1999 Sleeping with the Dead 2002 Escape from Hong Kong Island 2004 The Heavenly Kings 2006 Wonderful Times Rebellion 2009 Young and Dangerous: Reloaded 2013 The Way We Dance Doomsday Party