Background
Derived from the definition of fahrenheit, each of the four members represents a season or temperature that corresponds with their different personalities. Calvin Chen represents spring, warm; Jiro Wang represents summer, hot; Wu Zun represents autumn, cool, and lastly, Aaron Yan represents winter, cold. Each of the four members also has his respective temperature represented on the Fahrenheit scale: Calvin Chen is at 77 degrees, Jiro Wang is at 95 degrees, Wu Zun is at 59 degrees, and Aaron Yan is at 41 degrees. represents Wu Zun was born and raised in
Brunei for most of his life, later graduating with distinction at
RMIT, in
Melbourne,
Australia. He was introduced to the entertainment industry during a trip to
Taiwan. A
television producer (
Ella Chen's second sister's boyfriend) discovered him during this trip, and recommended him to play the lead male role of
Tokyo Juliet, which Wu accepted.
Aaron Yan moved to
New York,
USA at a young age but later returned to Taiwan for
high school and
college, currently attending
Chinese Culture University. Around early
2005, Comic
producers had been searching for elite bloggers around the web. They discovered Yan, who, at that time, was really popular online, and thus recommended him to go casting for a role in a drama. Yan thought it was a fraud at first, but after several tests, he realized that it was true.
After
Calvin Chen graduated high school in Taiwan, he further pursued his college education in
Canada, where he completed his
masters degree in
Economics at
University of Victoria. He then further continued his life in Canada by joining a pageant-like competition (
Sunshine Boyz) in Vancouver,where he won first place with a free ticket to Taiwan and a contract with a
music company, as well as a role in a drama.
Jiro Wang graduated in Taiwan's Fu-Shin College. He was first asked to join the entertainment business because of his good looks and singing talent that he showed at a singing competition. Because of company difficulties, he failed to release an album, so therefore decided to continue his career in the industry by working backstage, mainly in charge of fashion designing and other designing necessities, as well as
commercial modeling. He was approached again around
2004, when his acting career began.
Although unstable at first, Fahrenheit first gained minor recognition around late
2005 when their first all together series,
KO One, was broadcasted on television in Taiwan. Because it felt awkward to have only three members in a boyband, Wu Zun joined the group later in late 2005. On
December 28,
2005, Fahrenheit officially became a
vocal quartet boy band.
Musical career
Rise to stardom
Before Fahrenheit released their first album in
September 15 of
2006, they gained minor attention as singers from contributing in several Taiwanese drama soundtracks. Their popularity immediately rose after the soundtracks were released, but was only limited to
Taiwan and
Mainland China. After their first album was released, their fan base had extended to
Hong Kong,
Singapore,
Malaysia,
Japan, and the rest of
Southeast Asia.
Overseas fans such as from
North America and
Europe are also getting more familiar with them.
As soon as announcements for their
debut album pre-order was released on
August 30,
2006, the album broke past 10,000 copies. After its release in
September 15,
2006, the album entered the G-music charts and was ranked #2. It was less than 1% below
Jay Chou's Still Fantasy album, which came out two weeks prior to the release. Fahrenheit's album sold passed an impressive 80,000 copies in Taiwan within the first month. Ultimately on the G-music Mandarin Charts their album was ranked 11th for the top 20 of 2006 and stayed in the charts for 17 weeks. Their primary song, or
zhuda (
Chinese: 主打;
pinyin: zhǔ dǎ) song, "I Have My Youth" (我有我的Young) was on Hong Kong's Global Rhythm List as the Top 16th song for weeks. Their duet with
Hebe of
girl group S.H.E also won them several popular awards. Fahrenheit was also the first new foreign boy band to have won third place for
Best Group at
Hong Kong's TVB8 Awards. Although unable to defeat their seniors
S.H.E and
Twins, who had won first place and second place respectively, they have beaten Hong Kong's local boy bands such as
Sun Boy'z and
Soler. In less than a year, Fahrenheit has already won eight awards. Despite the outburst of winning multiple awards, there had been debates where fans disagreed with the awards that they have won. The most debated topic was when Fahrenheit won
HITO Music Awards 2007's Best Male Group award, arguing that Fahrenheit is too inexperienced to have won the award.
Popularity and success
With the help of starring in popular dramas, Fahrenheit has been the fastest moving boy band and has quickly gained their status as one of the top boy bands of the year in Taiwan. In within a year, they had already debuted in over 30 different magazine covers all over Asia. They make frequent appearances in Taiwan's Play and Color magazine covers. After their predecessors F4, they are the second Taiwanese boy band to hold a concert in Indonesia with only just one album released. They already held two mini concerts: one in Medan, North Sumatra, Indonesia in March 31 and one in Tsim Sha Tsui, Hong Kong in April 19.
Fahrenheit attended to an opening ceremony for their new music label in Hong Kong,
WOW Music, at
Times Square,
Hong Kong, on
April 19,
2007, the same evening where they held their mini concert in
Tsim Sha Tsui,
Hong Kong. They also attended with fellow label mate
Tank as well as with other popular artists like
Candy Lo and
Mavis Fan. More than a thousand fans showed up at the mall, the majority being Fahrenheit's fans. There were fans who faced danger and climbed on roofs, cars, narrow roads, etc. to catch a glimpse of them. Some fans also fainted and were stepped on due to the amount of people. Over fifty security guards and ten policeman had to appear at the venue to protect Fahrenheit as well as the other artists. There were also some fans who rented vans to chase after Fahrenheit's vans. Some fans also became victims of
car accidents because of this. At their mini concert in
Hard Rock Cafe, the organizers had to cut down Fahrenheit's performance because the fans were going overboard and out of control. Fahrenheit expressed that they do not want their fans to do anything dangerous. Fahrenheit's company explained that if fans do not correct this behavior they will cut some of Fahrenheit's future trips to Hong Kong. Due to a satisfying popularity in
Japan, Fahrenheit will make their debut in Japan on
November 21,
2007 with the release of a Japanese version of "I Have My Youth". (我有我的Young)
