Shone An (; 20 September 1983 – 1 June 2015) was a Taiwanese singer, actor and television host.

Early life

On 20 September 1983, An was born in East District, Tainan. He was the only child in his family. His birth name was Huang Yi-cheng (黃益承). During his childhood, he was primarily raised by his grandparents. His father is a businessman and politician. An graduated from

Fu Jen Catholic University Fu Jen Catholic University (FJU, FJCU or Fu Jen; or ) is a private Catholic university in Xinzhuang, New Taipei City, Taiwan. The university was founded in 1925 in Beijing at the request of Pope Pius XI and re-established in Taiwan in 1961 at ...

with a degree in philosophy.

Career

From 2001 to 2005, he was a member of the

mandopop Mandopop or Mandapop refers to Standard Chinese, Mandarin popular music. The genre has its origin in the jazz-influenced popular music of 1930s Shanghai known as Shidaiqu; with later influences coming from Japanese enka, Hong Kong's Cantopop, Ta ...

boy band A boy band is loosely defined as a vocal group consisting of young male singers, usually in their teenage years or in their twenties at the time of formation. Generally, boy bands perform Love song, love songs marketed towards girls and young ...

Comic Boyz Comic Boyz () was a Taiwanese vocal quintet boy band, composed of Kingone Wang, Figaro Tseng, Peter Chang, Shone An, Arroy Shen and Eddie Hsu. Despite the publicity and making appearance in Taiwanese dramas, Comic Boyz was not as successful as e ...

. He also appeared in many movie, television and theatre productions such as ''Case Sensitive'' (2011), ''Rhapsody of Marriage'' (2012) and ''Turn Around'' (2014). He was also a guest host on '' 100% Entertainment''. Shone was close friends with

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and

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Death

On 1 June 2015, Shone An died of

liver cancer Liver cancer (also known as hepatic cancer, primary hepatic cancer, or primary hepatic malignancy) is cancer that starts in the liver. Liver cancer can be primary (starts in liver) or secondary (meaning cancer which has spread from elsewhere to th ...

at home, in Tainan, aged 31. His funeral was held a week later on 8 June 2015 and attended by fellow Comic Boyz members

Kingone Wang Kingone Wang (; born 5 May 1980) is a Taiwanese actor, singer and host. He was part of the boy band Comic Boyz and winner of Taiwanese Golden Bell Awards for Best Supporting Actor. He is the alumni of both National Chiao Tung University and C ...

and Peter Chang.

References

1983 births 2015 deaths Taiwanese male singers Taiwanese Mandopop singers Taiwanese male film actors Taiwanese male television actors Taiwanese male stage actors Fu Jen Catholic University alumni Deaths from liver cancer Deaths from cancer in Taiwan Musicians from Tainan Male actors from Tainan {{Taiwan-actor-stub