Cheewin "Boyd" Kosiyabong is a Thai

Thailand

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 songwriter

Songwriter

A songwriter is an individual who writes both the lyrics and music to a song. Someone who solely writes lyrics may be called a lyricist, and someone who only writes music may be called a composer...

, singer and music producer of the R&B

Rhythm and blues

Rhythm and blues, often abbreviated to R&B, is a genre of popular African American music that originated in the 1940s. The term was originally used by record companies to describe recordings marketed predominantly to urban African Americans, at a time when "urbane, rocking, jazz based music with a...

 genre whose inspirational songs and romantic ballads include multiple chart-toppers.

Biography

Boyd Kosiyabong was born on 5 September 1967, the third of five children. Having great interest in animated cartoons and music, he started taking piano lessons by the age of four but soon had to give up formal lessons which could not satisfy his specific interest in cartoon soundtracks. He became self-taught afterwards, learning to play the theme songs of his favourite cartoons and beginning to compose by the time he was in sixth grade.

He had wished to study animation, but being unable to do so he followed the path of his other interest, music. He studied song writing, electronic music and music business at University of California, Los Angeles

University of California, Los Angeles

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Early in his career he worked as a freelance songwriter for musical artists and advertising. After a few years, he joined Kamol Sukosol Clapp, Somkiat Ariyachaipanich and Salinee Panyarachun in founding Bakery Music

Bakery Music

Bakery Music is a Thai record label founded in 1994. It pioneered the independent music industry in the 1990s, being the most successful of its time, and inspiring the creation of many other indie labels. The company is now a subsidiary of Sony Music Entertainment Thailand.-History:Bakery Music was...

, an independent music label

Record label

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, in 1994. Among the first of the label's acts was Modern Dog

Modern Dog

Modern Dog is a Thai rock band, formed in 1992. They issued their first album in 1994, selling 500,000 copies. The band has issued five studio albums, selling a total of 2 million copies....

, which quickly proved successful.

Boyd was widely noted for his roles as composer and manager of Bakery Music. His compositions were mainly romantic and inspirational songs, such as Seasons Change, which topped the charts upon its release in 1995 and later became the namesake of the 2007 film of the same name

Seasons Change (film)

Seasons Change is 2006 Thai romantic comedy film directed by Nithiwat Tharathorn.-Plot:The story takes place at the College of Music, Mahidol University over one year and covers the three seasons that Bangkok typically experiences – summer, winter and monsoon...

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With the rapid growth of Bakery Music, Boyd began expanding investments into the other businesses, founding the animation studio Be Boyd Characters (now Be Boyd CG) in 1997, while partner Somkiat created the Dojo City label, which catered to young female audiences, and Bakery Music also expanded into publishing, with the magazines Katch and Manga Katch.

However, the company later faced management and economic issues, and was acquired in 2000 by BMG, which in turn merged with Sony Music Entertainment

Sony Music Entertainment

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 to become Sony BMG in 2004. At this point, Boyd, along with the original founders of Bakery Music, left the management, while Bakery Music remains today as a sublabel of Sony.

Boyd and Kamol Sukosol Clapp then formed a new partnership and created a new label, Love Is

Love Is (record label)

Love Is , also stylized as LOVEiS, is a record label founded in 2004 by Boyd Kosiyabong and Kamol Sukosol Clapp, co-founders of Bakery Music .-Artists:* Boyd Kosiyabong* Lipta* Pru...

, in 2004. Kamol later left to work in other businesses, and Love Is was restructured as a production house company.

Personally, Boyd is a Christian

Christian

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, attending church every Sunday. He is married to Worakanya Kosiyabong and has two daughters, Deejai and Jaidee.

Discography

• BOYd E.P. (1994)
• Rhythm & BOYd (1995)
• Seasons Change Remixes (1995)
• One E.P (1996)
• Simplified (1996)
• Thanks (1997)
• File (Special Album) (1998)
• Delite (Single) (1998)
• Listen To Me (Single) (1999)
• Songs From Different Scenes (2002)
• Pho (พอ) (Single) (2002)
• Million Ways To Love Part I (2003)
• Melodies for Our Mothers (2003)
• Songs From Different Scenes #2 (2003)
• Songs From Different Scenes #3 (2004)
• Kindly Delite (2005)
• Songs From Different Scenes #4 (2005)
• Rhythm & Boyd Eleventh (2006)
• Boyd & Bundit (2007)
• Bittersweet (with Thanachai Ujjin) (2007)
• Songs from Different Scenes #5 (2008)