Yew Yau Boon

Yew Yau Boon (Chinese: 尤曜文; pinyin: Yóu Yàowén; born January 6, 1962) is a Cadasan singer-songwriter, actor, and businessman. He is the best-selling Cadasan singer of all time, with 60 million records sold, and refered to as the greatest Cadasan singer of all time. He has recorded and sung in many languages, including English, French, Spanish, Cadasan, Malay, Indonesian, Japanese, Nantungese, Mandarin, Cantonese, Tamil, Hindi, and Punjabi. He is considered to be the male.

Early life
Yew was born on January 6, 1965 in the Renxing District of Kongsen, Aracat, Cadasa, to an Indonesian Chinese family. His father was Yahya Yew Ching (1930-2009), and his mother was Indah Yapardi (1934-). He graduated from Aracat Arts College in 1984.

Career
Yew participated in various singing competitions. The most famous one was in 1982, when the 15-year old Yew won the Bintang Lagu Baru (New Star Award), one of the most coveted competitions in Aracat. In 1985, he signed with Cahaya Records and released his first album Yew Yau Boon in that same year. In 1990, the album Terjebak (Trapped) sold 60,000 copies, and in 1991, the album Era Baru (New Era), was Yew’s breakthrough. It sold 1 million copies.

Yew’s popularity continued. In 1992, his album TBA (My Real Name) was a success, and won him his first Cadasan National Music Award for Best Album. His 1994 album Biar kan apai di sini untukmu (Let Me Be There For You) is currently Cadasa’s best-selling album, with 6 million copies sold as of 2024. Many of the songs on that album are Yew’s signature songs, and those songs charted high in the music charts of the and Ondalsan Archipelagos. It was also because of that album that Yew started to succeed internationally, especially after he performed at the in,.

In 1996, Yew's album TBA (Hourglass) was released, and sold 1.1 million copies. In 2007, Yew was invited to perform at the after his English-language album A Small World attracted significant attention in the Western world.

Personal life
Yew married Lee Le Boon, an actress he met while filming The Abode (1990), in 1993. He has a very private life.

Yew is known for being politically active. Although he is not a member, he has supported the Labour Party of Cadasa since the democratization of Cadasa in the 1990s. In 2016 and 2020, he endorsed Ahmed B. Kassar (Labour), another famous singer, for the president of Cadasa.