Name TFBOYS(Band) Origin China Genre(s) Mandopop Years active 2013 - present Active from 2013 | Occupation Singers, actors Label(s) TF Entertainment Role Musical band Lead singer Wang Junkai | |
Albums Manual of Youth, Magic Castle, Big Dreamer, Heart Members Wang Junkai, Wang Yuan, Yi YangQianXi Similar EXO, Lu Han, Kris Wu, SpeXial, Jackson Yi | ||
Spring Festival Gala 2019: Emerging young stars TFboys perform song
TFBOYS (also known as The Fighting Boys) is a Chinese music band formed by TF Entertainment. The group consists of Wang Junkai (王俊凯, Karry Wang), who is the leader and Wang Yuan (王源, Roy Wang), the main vocalist, and Yi YangQianXi (易烊千玺, Jackson Yi), the lead dancer. TFBOYS officially debuted on August 6, 2013. Rapidly gaining popularity on the Internet, especially through social media such as Sina Weibo, their performances and songs are well known in Mainland China. With appearances on various TV shows and music awards, they have become well known in Mainland China, Taiwan, and many Southeast Asian countries. On June 22, 2015, Wang Junkai had also been presented with a Guinness World Record for a total of 42,776,438 reposts on weibo (Chinese edition Twitter) for his birthday message which is currently the most number of reposts on weibo.
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Pre debut
Karry Wang had said in an interview that he was auditioning for the company when he went to the bathroom, thus causing him to lose his turn. However, when he was coming back from the bathroom, the company's scouts decided he had a nice aura and looked well groomed. He tried out for a company in 2011 because of his love for singing. His dad a taxi driver. Before his debut in TF-Boys, he was an vocalist for TF-family, due to the company having less power those videos only got minimum attention on the web. In 2011, when he auditioned for a talent show he was unable to finish and was not picked. In 2012 he tried again with a cover of "Rolling in the Deep" by Adele in Chinese. He even did his simple dancing passing through the auditions. However he was disqualified in the top 100s due to his voice still being developed. Though when his company posted a cover of him singing the Chinese song "Prisoned bird" it had gone viral over the internet. Eventually doing covers with second member Roy wang. The first cover song they did even got the attention of the original singer reposting it on her weibo.
Roy wang came into the company a year later than Karry. When he was in first grade his whole class had done a sort of chorus and at the end the teacher told him to stay behind. When he did, the teacher asked him to sing individually. The teacher, who wasn't named, told him he did pretty well and told him if he was to do training he could be even better. So he began singing in the first grade. Once he came in the company, he was paired with Karry, taking classes and posting videos together. In 2011, Roy had a video taped of him practicing dance and it was extremely painful for him. Eventually they rose in fame.
In 2013, as Roy and Karry's individual fame was rising, the company found Jackson Yi from Beijing. He was the only one not from ChongQing. The company had an idea to form them into a trio called "Tf-boys." The boys gradually became closer as they did everything together. Though born in Beijing, he was from HuNan and although he was the youngest of the three, he was their senior.
At the age of five, Jackson was acknowledged for his dancing skills, winning an international kids dance contest. Several of his dance videos went viral. Eventually, all types of shows, whether it be dancing, calligraphy and writing, and talent shows, he was always one of the top picks. People have crowned him the variety king amongst kids. At the delicate age of 5 and 6 his parents brought him to learn the traditional Chinese dances, stretching out his muscles and making him very flexible, not knowing this would be one of his advantages in life. Later, he starting learning the tango and other dances. In 2012, he participated in the same talent show Karry had participated in. In the end, he was eliminated in the top 100 because his judges felt that the music didn't match his dance moves. However, in 2014, he proved them wrong when attending a variety show, doing a flawless bullet dance. When Jackson joined the group, he helped fill in the gap the Tf-boys had on dancing. After joining, even the worst dancer among the three had incredible improvement with extra help from Jackson.