Elton Bee Cormier was born February 18, 1934, in the Parish of St. Landry near the small community of Sunset, Louisiana. At a young age, Bee developed an interest in Cajun music and was influenced by two neighborhood musicians, a fiddle player, Gilbert Patin, and a black accordion player, Noah Lewis. When Bee turned five years old, he purchased harmonicas, which sold two for 25 cents. Later he moved to Acadia Parish in the small community of Peach Bloom, near Church Point, Louisiana. As he grew he learned to play the fiddle, guitar, and finally the steel guitar. In 1949 he formed a band named "The Church Point Playboys" and began playing house dances, parties and then dance clubs. The first accordion player he had was Alfred Carriere. Some other members of the band were Melvin Cormier (brother), Johnnie Richard (uncle), and Ernest Venable (cousin). Other accordion players he played with were Eugene Jagneaux, Coon Duplechain, Steven Lejeune and he also named his band the Church Point Playboys. It was about this time that Bee had an idea to expose more young people to the Cajun music. He started taking young musicians into his band and began exposing them to the public, encouraging them to learn more about their Cajun culture. After a while he decided to have the band recorded. But at that time there were no recording studios that wanted to record Cajun music. It was their feeling that Cajun music was dead; it was a thing of the past; and it would not be a profitable venture. Bee felt that Cajun music was not dead, but was indeed a large part of the Cajun culture and had to be brought back to life. In an effort to promote Cajun music, he purchased a tape recorder and started to record young musicians himself. His record label is under Bee Record Production.