'I discovered that music could get you laid, even if you were a scrawny, long-haired, geeky-looking guy like me.' Career Music īy the early 1960s, Chong was playing guitar for a Calgary soul group called the Shades. He bought a $500 house in Dog Patch and raised his family on $50 a week.' In an interview, Chong later described how he dropped out of Crescent Heights High School 'when I was 16 but probably just before they were going to throw me out anyway.' He played guitar to make money. He has said that his father had 'been wounded in World War II and there was a veterans' hospital in Calgary. Īs a youth, Tommy Chong moved with his family to Calgary, settling in a conservative neighbourhood Chong has referred to as ' Dog Patch'. After arriving in Canada, the senior Chong had first lived with an aunt in Vancouver. He had an older brother, Stan (1936–2018). His mother was a Canadian of Scottish and Irish ancestry, and his father was Chinese who immigrated in the 1930s. Kin Chong was born on May 24, 1938, in Edmonton, Alberta. He became a naturalized United States citizen in the late 1980s. He is known for his role/inspiration in the marijuana industry, his marijuana-themed Cheech & Chong comedy albums and movies with Cheech Marin, and playing the character Leo on Fox's That '70s Show. Kin Chong (born May 24, 1938) is a Canadian comedian, actor, musician and activist.

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