Yumi Chung Explained

Yumi Chung
Native Name Lang:zh-hant
Birth Name:Yumi Belza Bayanin
Birth Date:21 December 2006
Birth Place:Hong Kong, China
Nationality:Filipino, Chinese
Alma Mater:ECF Saint Too Canaan College
Agent:TVB
Module:
Embed:yes
Background:solo_singer
Years Active:2015–present
Label:All About Music
Module2:
Child:yes
P:Zhōng Róuměi
Bpmf:ㄓㄨㄥ ㄖㄡˊ ㄇㄟˇ

Yumi Chung Yau Mei (Jyutping: ; born 21 December 2006), also known as her Philippine name Yumi Belza Bayanin, is a Hong Kong-born Filipino singer and actress, and a member of the Hong Kong girl group After Class. She is noted for being the 2nd runner-up in TVB's reality talent competition Stars Academy in 2021. Chung made her solo debut in Febrauary 2022 with the single "Breakin' My Heart".

Early life

Chung was born on 21 December 2006 in Hong Kong, to a Hong Kong Chinese father and a Filipino mother. She attended in Nancy Sit's talent school and joined a girl group named Honey Bees with other students in the school. She left Honey Bees and later joined another girl group named A Little Bit Shy with other 6 girls at the age of 10. She also worked as child actress, which one of her portrayal is being the childhood Leung Sum, which the adulthood is portrayed by Tavia Yeung, in Momentary Lapse Of Reason.[1]

Music career

Chung became one of the contestants of TVB's reality talent competition Stars Academy in 2021, and her performance of Aaron Kwok's "The Wild City" (狂野之城) in the competition gained her popularity.[2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] After the performance clip was posted on YouTube, it once topped the YouTube trend list and reached 1 million views within five days, accumulating more than 3.1 million views. She became the third contestant on the show to have exceeded 1 million views with a single performance. The song also became the first dance song on the show to have over one million views.[8] She eventually won the third place in the finals of Stars Academy.

In October, Chung sang the theme song named 不想輕躺 for the TV drama Heart City Hong Kong, Prop Up Youth (Chinese: 青年心城之撐起青春). She became the second contestant of Stars Academy to release a solo single after Gigi Yim, and became the first to release a theme song of a drama among the contestants of Stars Academy.[9] In November, Chung, along with Gigi Yim, Chantel Yiu and Windy Zhan, formed a girl group called "After Class", with their debut single Present For Future (要為今日回憶).

In February 2022, Chung released a single named Breakin' My Heart, which is her debut single other than drama theme songs.[10] She also released another single named wanna be close to u in October of the same year.

In 2023, two more singles were released: y2k還襯我麼？ in July, and 下一個暑假 in September.[11]

Acting career

Chung made her first acting after Stars Academy on the TVB television series in 2021,[12] which a bully victim was portrayed and she sang the insert song of that scene.[13]

Discography

Singles

As lead artist

Title! rowspan="2"
YearPeak chart positionsAlbum
HK
不想輕躺2021—Theme song of Heart City Hong Kong, Prop Up Youth
傻人—Insert song of Forever Young At Heart
Breakin' My Heart2022—Non-album single
wanna be close to u—
y2k還襯我麼？2023—
寵寵—Theme song of My Pet My Angel
下一個暑假—Non-album single
Crack!2024—

Filmography

Television series

YearTitleOriginal TitleRoleNotes
2015Momentary Lapse Of Reason收規華Leung Sum (childhood)[14]
2016A Fist Within Four Walls城寨英雄Unnamed character
2017Tiger Mom Blues親親我好媽Sun Kai[15]
Provocateur與諜同謀Unnamed character[16]
平安谷之詭谷傳說Ng Siu Chui
2021青春本我Yip Man Yee Yumi[17]

Films

!Year!Title!Original Title!Role!Notes
2017TransformedTransformedRose[18]
2018Dearest Anita朝花夕拾.芳華絕代Olivia[19]

Notes and References

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