Cool Silly

Cool Silly
Chinese name	傻酷
Pinyin	Shǎ kù (Mandarin)
Origin	Republic of China (Taiwan)
Genre(s)	Mandopop
Instrument(s)	Vocal, Violin, Guitar, Piano, Keyboard, Drums
Label(s)	AsiaMuse Entertainment 亞神音樂 (rumored)
Years active	2009–present
Current Members	Tone (Tony Chung) (Guitar, Vocals) Leeway Lan (Rapper, Violin)
Past Members	Ray Liu (Lead Vocals)
Official Website	Cool Silly Official Website

Cool Silly (Chinese: 傻酷; traditional Chinese: 傻酷; pinyin: Shǎ kù) is a Taiwanese-American mainstream pop duo consisting of producer/singer Tone (仲維軍) and rapper/actor Leeway(藍力威). Renowned artist Tone (仲維軍) formed this band after releasing his first debut album titled "我的6:57am" (My 6:57 AM), and recruited two other members to form Cool Silly: Rapper/actor Leeway (藍力威）and singer/composer Ray Liu (劉軒蓁). In 2011, because the band decided that Ray Liu's musical style is more suitable on her own, Cool Silly became a duo consisting Tony Chung and Leeway Lan. Ray Liu later on pursued music production with her own musical style.

The band was well known throughout Taiwan in 2010 with their hit "Fly" (我飛), which was the theme song for the 2010 Taipei International Flora Exposition([2] 2010 臺北國際花卉博覽會). The song attracted many fans, which led to Cool Silly's debut in 2010 with the release of their first digital album, Cool Silly: The Prelude. Since their debut, they have often been compared with the Popular Taiwanese rock group F.I.R. because of the similar formation of band members and attractive performance personalities.

In late 2010, Cool Silly was invited by the Taipei City government to write and produce a song to reflect the beauty and hope of Taipei City as the theme song of the heavily promoted Taipei City Mayor Hau Lung-pin's "MyWish" campaign. The resulting tune, “Light Up Your Dreams”, was later distributed as an EP single in Apple Weely Magazine and promoted on various internet channels.

The name Cool Silly comes from the band's ideology that "a person can't be cool unless they're silly as well". The band insists that the personality of their music is not only "cool," but at the same time "silly."^[1]

Contents 1 Member Profiles 2 Discography 2.1 Studio albums 2.2 Singles 3 Trivia 4 External links 5 References

Member Profiles

• Guitarist/Lead Vocal
  • Stage name: Tone (仲維軍)
  • Birth place: Austin, Texas
  • Birth date: December 1, 1983 (1983-12-01) (age 28)
  • Musical Instrument: Guitar, Keyboard, arranging music on the computer

• Rapper/Violinist
  • Stage name: L.Dub (Leeway, 藍力威)
  • Birth place: Queens, New York
  • Birth date: June 26, 1983 (1983-06-26) (age 28)
  • Musical Instruments: Violin, Guitar, keyboard, piano

(Previous Member)

• • Stage name: RayRay (劉軒蓁)(Placed 11th on the second season of the popular Taiwanese talent show Super Star Avenue 超級星光大道 (第二屆))
  • Birth place: Taipei, Taiwan
  • Birth date: May 30, 1985 (1985-05-30) (age 26)
  • Time with band: October 19, 2009 ~ January 14, 2011

Discography

Cool Silly (傻酷) discography

Releases
↙Studio albums	2
↙EPs	2
↙Singles	2
↙Soundtracks	2

Studio albums

Date Released	Album Title
[2] February 10, 2010	Cool Silly: The Prelude 傻酷: 我飛

Date Released	Album Title
[3] October 28, 2010	Light Up Your Dreams 夢想發光

Singles

• Fly(我飛) (October, 2009)
• Light Up Your Dreams(夢想發光) (November, 2011)

Trivia

• Rapper/Violinist Leeway, was planning on attending Western State University College of Law after graduating from CSU Fullerton in 2006. He decided to commit to a career in the Asian entertainment industry instead during a vacation visit to Taipei.

• Leeway has never met his biological mother.

• Tone starred in the US independent film "Binary City" in 2006. He played the lead role of "Tony".

• In June 2009, Leeway was cast as superstar David Tao's best friend in his director/producer romantic music movie, "Secret Love" (暗戀). Leeway also played the part of "Jerry" in the music video "Play" for David Tao's album Opus 69.

• Tone is the CEO and creator of the popular website GeekWhat?.

External links

• Cool Silly official website

References