Robert Lee Jun-fai


Robert Lee Jun-fai is a Hong Kong musician. He is the younger brother of martial artist Bruce Lee, the brother-in-law of Linda Lee Cadwell, and the paternal uncle of Brandon Lee and Shannon Lee.

Biography

Lee was born on 16 December 1948 in Hong Kong as the youngest son of Lee Hoi-chuen, a leading Chinese Cantonese opera and film actor of the 1940s and Grace Ho. Grace Ho was half Chinese and half Caucasian. His elder sisters are Phoebe Lee and Agnes Lee and his elder brothers are Peter Lee and Bruce Lee.
Lee was the founder of a Hong Kong beat band called The Thunderbirds, a beat group in the same Hong Kong/Macau musical scene as Danny Diaz & The Checkmates, Zoundcrakers, Anders Nelson & The Inspiration, D'Topnotes and Teddy Robin & The Playboys. He founded the group in 1966 and quickly became famous in Hong Kong. A few singles were sung mostly or all in English. Also released was Lee singing a duet with Irene Ryder.
He later moved to Los Angeles in the United States and stayed with his older brother Bruce. After Bruce's death, Robert released an album dedicated to him called The Ballad of Bruce Lee. A single of the same title was also released. In 1977, Lee married Hong Kong singer and actress Sylvia Lai, who performed under the stage name of Sum Sum. They had a son named Clarence Lee Ka-ho in 1980. Lee and Lai divorced in 1983.
On 27 November 2005, Robert unveiled a Bruce Lee statue in Hong Kong, celebrating what would have been Bruce's 65th birthday. He is the producer of the 2010 film Bruce Lee, My Brother.

Discography

Singles
EP
Album
Compilation