Fahrenheit

Various bands exist under this name: 1) Taiwanese boy band 2) Chilean Hard Rock Band 3) Swedish post punk band 4) Mexican Metal band 5) Hungarian Hard Rock band 6) Venezuelan Heavy Metal band 7) A Thai Rock Band 8) An Austrian AOR band More Details: 1) Taiwanese boy band Fahrenheit (traditional Chinese: ???; pinyin: F?i L?n H?i) is a Taiwanese boy band that has achieved success in the last two years in Southeast Asia.

1) Taiwanese boy band
2) Chilean Hard Rock Band
3) Swedish post punk band
4) Mexican Metal band
5) Hungarian Hard Rock band
6) Venezuelan Heavy Metal band
7) A Thai Rock Band
8) An Austrian AOR band

More Details:
1) Taiwanese boy band
Fahrenheit (traditional Chinese: ???; pinyin: F?i L?n H?i) is a Taiwanese boy band that has achieved success in the last two years in Southeast Asia. The group consists of four members: Aaron Yan, Wu Chun, Calvin Chen, and Jiro Wang. They are managed by Jerry Fen's Comic Productions Co., Ltd. and records albums with HIM International Music. They are also managed by WOW Music[1] in Hong Kong. Fahrenheit are often associated with their seniors, S.H.E.

Derived from the definition of Fahrenheit, each of the four members represents a season or temperature that corresponds with their different personalities. 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 Chun is at 59 degrees, and Aaron Yan is at 41 degrees. Each of their temperatures are separated by 18 degrees.

In 2000, Jiro Wang started to work after graduating from Taiwan's Fu-Shin community college, and did part-time jobs wherever he could, such as commercial modeling. BMG, the label that signed him, planned to package him with Jay Chou and Jordan Chan to form a boy band called 3J, but because of 9/11, BMG's stocks crashed and the 3J plan was scrapped. He later joined the army for 2 years, and came back around 2003. Since he was still popular around Taiwan, he was given two roles as a guest-star in 'The Pawnshop No.8' and 'I Love My Wife'. Then Comic Productions approached him, and was given the supporting role as Ah Jin in 'It Started with A Kiss'. That was where he was grouped with Aaron, Calvin and Wu Chun.

Although unstable at first, Fahrenheit first gained minor recognition around late 2005 when their first altogether series, KO One, was broadcast on television in Taiwan. Because it felt awkward to have only three members in a boy band,[citation needed] Wu Zun joined the group later in late 2005. On December 28, 2005, Fahrenheit officially became a vocal quartet boy band.

Rise to stardom

Before Fahrenheit released their first album on 15th September 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, Philippines, Indonesia 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. [3] 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. [4] Fahrenheit's album sold passed an impressive 80,000 copies in Taiwan within the first month. [5] 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. [6] Their primary song, or zhuda (Chinese: ??; pinyin: zh? d?) song, "I Have My Youth" (????Young Wo You Wo De 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.

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. 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 on March 31 and one in Tsim Sha Tsui, Hong Kong on April 19. [1] Also, they held 2 concerts sponsored by Watsons Water at the end of September 2007: one in Hongkong on September 28, 2007 and one in Guangzhou on September 29, 2007.

Ever since Fahrenheit's meteoric rise to stardom, HIM has been giving quite a bit exposure for Fahrenheit, such as promoting the group in two of S.H.E's major concerts in Taipei, Singapore and Malaysia where they were seen performing their duet with Hebe as well as their own songs. Ever since their exposure had hit the Hong Kong market their company does not want to miss this chance for more promotion for the group and is currently organizing Fahrenheit's first major concert in Hong Kong in September at the HKCEC. It was reported that they are originally going to hold a concert in Hong Kong's renowned coliseum, Hong Kong Coliseum, but because all of the performances slots are full, they have to move their concert to a different venue. The director of WOW Music expressed that Fahrenheit is currently slated for performing in the HKCEC for two to three nights. In the winter of 2008 they will debut in the Hong Kong Coliseum. [8] as part of their All-Asia Concert. During their All-Asia press conference for the release of their second album in Hong Kong, it was revealed that plans for the All-Asia Concert were in the works. Confirmed concert stops include Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore and Malaysia. Towards the end of October, Fahrenheit had some concert stops in Mainland China and about a week later, they had a several more concerts in China with S.H.E for their Mengniu Promotion-type concert.

Fahrenheit's songs mainly fall into the bubblegum pop and pop ballad category. However, songs like "Teachable Child" (???? Ru Zi Ke Jiao) and "Love's Arrived" (?? Ai Dao) are intended for a light R&B approach. Songs similar to "The Secret of Immortality" (???? Bu Si Zhi Mi) and "Superb" (?????- Chu Shen Ru Hua) are leaning toward the pop rock and rap genre, where they displayed their ability to rap and harmonize well.

Their much anticipated second album, Two-sided Fahrenheit, was released on January 4, 2008. The new album saw the four employ more advanced harmonizing techniques as well as some progression from bubblegum pop to more mature ballads, such as "Ten Thousand Joys" (????? Yi Wan Ge Kuai Le). Nonetheless, the band's youthful energy was retained in songs such as the opening song for the drama Romantic Princess - "New Home" (?-?? Xin Wo)? which is a duet by Fahrenheit and their seniors S.H.E. On the album "Little VIP" (????? Xiao Xiao Da Ren Wu) is the Disney theme song for 2008.

Often criticized for the lack of character in their music, Fahrenheit finally moved towards carving a more distinct musical style with their third album, Love You More & More (???? Yue Lai Yue Ai) which features a new maturity that is brought out by rock ballads like the main track, "Lonesome Sprint" (???? Ji Mo Bao Zou) and "Stay With Me" (??? Liu Xia Lai)? of which the latter was written by Monster, the lead guitarist of popular Taiwanese band, Mayday. The album also features "Artery" (?? Dong Mai), theme song of The Clue Collector (??MIT), "Shining Star" (?? Heng Xing)? theme song of Rolling Love (???????) and the ending song of upcoming drama Superstar Express A.K.A ToGetHer(?????) featuring Jiro and Rainie Yang, "The Love of Silence" (?? Mo Mo). The album is completed by slower ballads that showcases the quartet's improved vocals and chemistry in harmonization.

2) Chilean Hard Rock Band
Fahrenheit is a Hard Rock band from Santiago, Chile, deeply influenced by 80's and 70's rock legends such us Aerosmith, Van Halen and Skid Row. ?Fahrenheit is well known in the latin-american rock scene for its intense on-stage performance, energetic sound and killer guitar solos.
Throughout seven years of career, ?Fahrenheit has received positive reviews from the media, along with worldwide exposure through MTV and Much Music, breaking new ground in the yet unexplored spanish rock market.
The band has played in massive shows in Chile and Mexico, including opening for Evanescence and the legendary ?Vive Latino? festival.
After releasing their debut album ?Chain Reaction? through Perris Records, the band decided to develop their music in its native language and started working in their first spanish album, ?Nuevos Tiempos?, with multi-platinum producer David Prater, known for his work with Dream Theater, Firehouse and the Dirty Dancing movie OST.
With its third album soon to released, the band hopes to keep rising in the latin rock mainstream. Their third album will be released during late 2009, for free over the internet.
www.fhtrock.com

3) Swedish post punk band
Fahrenheit is a Swedish post punk band that changed their name from Schnabels in 1983, and switched drummers from Lennart Holmstr?m to Johan Schjelderup (at least I think they were drummers, but please correct me if im wrong, the record sleeves tell nothing about any line up at all). The music also changed a bit, but kept the intense new wave of say, the best parts on the "pop-job" sampler, and took it to new levels of great music. The surrealistic lyrics of "Under skydd av det vackra" gets to me each listen. Also, I must say that the vocal parts are much better in fahrenheit than in schnabel.

4) Mexican Metal Band
http://fahrenheitportal.com/

5) Hungarian Hard Rock band
Fahrenheit was formed in 1994 after by guitarist/vocalist Zolt?n Mar?thy, bass player G?bor V?r?s and drummer Csaba Tobola, all former members of Ossian. They released 3 studio albums: Fahrenheit in 1995, Egyed?l in 1996 and III in 1999. To date, III is their last album as the members are busy with their other projects. Mar?thy is the guitarist/vocalist of KISS Forever Band (KISS Tribute), with whom he has toured Europe several times in the role of Space Ace; V?r?s has played with such bands as Omen, Ganxsta Zolee ?s a Kartel and Hungarica; Tobola has also spent 10 years (1995-2005) with KISS Forever Band and is now playing with L'art Pour L'art T?rsulat. Their last concert to date was held on February 3, 2006 in Wigwam Rock Club in Budapest. Their unofficial fourth member was G?bor Gy?ngy?si (keyboards), known from such acts as Hard/H.A.R.D.

6) Venezuelan Heavy Metal band
Traditional metal band from Caracas featuring a female lead singer with a strong voice. Released one full-lenght LP in 1983.

7) A Thai Rock band
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fahrenheit_%28Thai_band%29
(from Wikipedia) "Fahrenheit (?????????) is a Thai rock band featuring a female lead vocalist, Piraporn Pranpanas, backed by former members of other well-known Thai rock bands. Guitarist Pichet Kruawan was from Y Not 7 while drummer Kittisak and founding bassist Apirath Sukkhajitr were from Loso. Bassist Apirath left the band to rejoin Loso, with Arkom Nuchanin (from Taxi) joining Fahrenheit in March 2006. Despite no new album during that period, the band's new lineup could be seen in live concerts."

8) An Austrian AOR band
http://heavyharmonies.com/cgi-bin/band.cgi?BandNum=2168
Fahrenheit was an Austrian AOR / Pop Rock ensemble that featured Johnny Kanatschnig (vocals, guitars), Bernard Groinig (guitars), Claudio Ghidini (keyboards), Mario Kleinberger (bass), and Harold Huber (drums). They released an album entitled "Talking 'Bout Love" in 1989. It is highly sought after in AOR and hard rock circles alike.