Biography
ATEEZ (에이티즈), previously known as KQ Fellaz, is an eight member K-pop group from KQ Entertainment. The group’s members Hongjoong, Seonghwa, Yunho, Yeosang, San, Mingi, Wooyoung, and Jongho debuted on October 24, 2018. ATEEZ stands for A TEEnager Z, or teenagers whose hope is to be enthusiastic, despite the modern cultural climate.
Before their debut, members of the group appeared on YG Entertainment’s Mixnine. Additionally, they released performance videos of choreography to popular songs, such as Cardi B’s “Lick (feat. Offset)” and Famous Dex’s “Pick It Up (feat. A$AP Rocky).” These videos gained international media attention with over one million views.
ATEEZ debuted in October 2018 with double-titles “해적왕 (Pirate King)” and “Treasure.” off the first installment of their TREASURE series, TREASURE EP. 1: ALL TO ZERO, while the second and third instalments followed in January and June of 2019 respectively. Additionally, the title track off of ONE TO ALL, “Wave” garnered the group their first music show win and their first full length album, October 2019’s EP.FIN: ALL TO ACTION became the group’s first project to top the Gaon charts. They have also managed to receive multiple accolades during the annual K-pop end of the year award show season, including the Worldwide Fans' Choice category at the 2019 MNET Asian Music Awards. They completed their TREASURE series with the release of its last installment EP.FIN: ACTION TO ANSWER in early 2020.
ATEEZ kicked off their second series, ZERO: FEVER with its first part in July 2020 with double-titles “INCEPTION” and “THANXX”. The project itself was positively received by the critics and became the best selling album of 2020 released by a boy group coming from K-pop’s so-called “fouth generation”. In addition, their winning cover of TURBO’s 1996 song “The Black Cat Nero” performed on Immortal Songs: The Singing Legend went viral, and they continued to catch another win on the same show with a rendition of RAIN’s “It’s Raining.”
ATEEZ started 2021 with the Part.2 of their ZERO : FEVER series in March, which saw Mingi not participate in promotions due to his hiatus. ATEEZ ranked third place on Kingdom: Legendary War. Following this, their Japanese single album Dreamers was released in July and Summer Songs, a collaboration project between the group and TURBO’s Kim Jongkook was released in August with Mingi returning to group activities. Part 3 of ZERO : FEVER was released in September.
