Another member of Singapore's blues diaspora, Bernard Yeo is the guitarist who founded Calcutta Blues Experiment in 1987. Christened from Champion Jack Dupree's "Calcutta Blues" and Johnny Winter's Progressive Blues Experiment album, CBE didn't last very long (Yeo immigrated to Canada in 1990), but it had a lasting impact on former members R. Segar, Derek Leong, and Stephen Low, as well as Siva Choy, whose late-eighties comeback was partly inspired by Yeo.

Yeo's appetite for blues was huge -- from rockabilly to Texas-fried blues-rock to swing -- and he didn't share much of the British-blues baggage that left most Singaporean guitarists stuck in Clapton-imitation mode. (As drummer Richard Khan once put it, "This guy will lay 'Two Bones and a Pick' on you.") In 1990, Yeo attended a sound engineering course in the UK, and thanks to Jimmy Appudurai-Chua (small world) he wound up recording a session by British blues bandleader Shakey Vick before returning to Singapore. Yeo later continued his blues pursuits in Canada, and today he lives in Montreal.