AKI ALEONG

about

Actor and record executive Aki Aleong was called Assing Aleong by his father and Leonard Gonzales by his mother. Born on December 19, 1934 in Port of Spain, Trinidad to Henry Leong (Aleong), a cook from Hong Kong, and Agnes Vera Gonsalves from St. Vincent, British West Indies, Aleong attended Progressive Education Institute in Trinidad. After moving to Brooklyn, New York with his mother in 1949, he graduated from Boys High School. In 1951, he started taking classes at Brooklyn College while working in a hardware store. Responding to a casting call for an Asian character, Aleong was cast as the Goat Boy in the 1954 Broadway production of Teahouse of the August Moon on Broadway. In 1956, he made his first live television appearance in "The Letter", an episode of NBC's Producers' Showcase. In 1957, Aleong was cast in the movie, Motorcycle Gang. In his career, Aleong performed in more than 200 different television programs including: Ben Casey (1961), The Outer Limits (1963), The Virginian (1967), L.A. Law(1986), Babylon 5 (1994), Kung Fu: The Legend Continues (1996) and Curb Your Enthusiasm (2001). His movie credits include Never So Few (1959), The Hanoi Hilton (1987), Farewell to the King (1989), Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story (1993), Tidal Wave: No Escape (1997), A Breed Apart (1998), Missing Brendan (2003), House of Sand and Fog (2003) and Sci-Fighter (2004). Also a musician, Aleong wrote the hit songs "Trade Winds" and "Shombalor" and by 1963 he formed Aki Aleong and the Nobl

top songs

albums

Giving Up On Love b/w Love Is Funny

Haunted Sax b/w Haunted Piano

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Voodoo Drums b/w Fall In Love With Me

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The Birth Of Surf

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Do-Do-Da-Day b/w Legend Of The Limbo

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Lonely Blue Boy b/w Lover

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Rare Rock N' Roll Tracks Of The '50s & '60s Vol. 1

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Cannibal Stew

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Hoodoo Voodoo

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Giving Up On Love b/w Love Is Funny - Single

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Play the Shadows

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Rarities from the Vinyl Graveyard, Vol. 1

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