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Jiro Wang is a Taiwanese actor and singer. He is a member of the boyband Fahrenheit. He is widely known for his roles in Taiwanese dramas, including KO One, It Started With A Kiss, Hana Kimi, and X-Family.

Jiro Wang was the first member to join Fahrenheit. He is the baritenor vocalist of the group. His publicized temperature is that of summer, at 95 degrees. He also represents "Hot". His fellow members include Wu Chun, Arron Yan, and Calvin Chen.

Jiro was born August 24, 1981 in Taiwan. He graduated at Fu Shin Trade and Arts College with a degree in Advertising Design. After graduation, he dedicated his life to the entertainment business. He was first asked to join the entertainment business because of his good looks and the singing talent he displayed at a singing competition.

BMG, the label that signed him, planned to package him with Jay Chou and Jordan Chan as a boyband called 3J. Because of 9/11, BMG's stocks crashed and the 3J plan was scrapped. Wang Dong Cheng then decided to continue his career in the industry by working backstage, mainly in fashion design and other designing necessities. He also began to do commercial modeling. He was approached by an acting scout around 2004, and that is when his acting career began.

Jiro speaks fluent Hokkien (the Taiwanese dialect) and Mandarin, and understands some conversational Cantonese and English.

Jiro's Past

We always see Jiro as a bubbly person that is always happy, but how many people really know about his past and what he has gone through? Jiro has always brought everyone around him happiness, but he has gone through so much suffering himself. Once he told A Chord; "Never shed a tear for the stress from work, because it's your choice!" What he said fits Jiro so much. No matter how tired Jiro is, he will always keep on going and give everything his 100% percent. Do you see his eyebags? That is proof! Jiro has gone through a lot, but he is always pushing himself and striving forward and not complaining. This is why we love Jiro so much.

Jiro's father was a regular manager for a building, and his mother didn't work because of old age and bad eyesight. They had Jiro when they were around 40. Maybe because of being born late, Jiro's health wasn't very good, but his mother and father loved him a lot. Later, Jiro's father had diabetes, so he went in and out of the hospital for 5 years. However, Jiro's father still passed away when Jiro was 17. Before he died, he said to Jiro: "You have to take up the responsibility of this family." And from then on, Jiro was the man of the house.

Probably it was since then, to support the family and to return loans [When his father was still alive, he borrowed aprox. 6 million yuan from the bank to buy the house they now live in.] He began to take part-time jobs everywhere, sometimes he worked 3 shifts a day. He worked in a bar, in a zoo, and some people even says that he worked to transport coal!

At around that time, Jiro started to model part-time. Then the BMG Company saw potential in him, so they were going to sign Jiro, Jay Chou, and Jordan Chen to the 3-J Plan. But sadly, the 911 incident happened, part of the company's market was corrupted, and of course, as a new idol, Jiro was fired on the spot. But Jiro didn't give up, he signed another company, but after he found out that they weren't interested in making him into an idol, he felt completely beat. So he joined the Army for 2 years. When he came back, he decided to be a Modeling Assistant, since he doesn't have the courage to return to the stage and make his dreams come true anymore.

At that time, he was pretty well known among the Taiwan Entertainment Market, everyone knew there was this guy who had a guitar on his back and followed the Modeling Stylist everywhere. Also at this time he met a lot of Commercial Producers, so later he began to act in commercials.

Then one time he met the President of the Ke Mi Company, but when they wanted to sign him to a contract, he hesitated. Because of so many failures before, he couldn't help but feel worried and afraid. Then he remembered something a person said to him before: "When you're old, you're going to say to your son, son, your dad had a dream, but he didn't have the courage to chase it ..." When he remembered what this person said to him, Jiro got the courage to try again. Then shortly afterwards, Jiro was given the opportunity to act in ISWAK as Ah Jin, and voila! Jiro got his big break!


(Bio and "Jiro's Past" courtesy of the Jiro Wang AsianFanatics thread, with editing by me. CLICK ME to visit Jiro's AF thread)