All four of them had gone or going through the second and most painful process of an artist development, advancing and growth. All four CHENs had released their debut album and well received within the Malaysia region. All fours also were well reputated newcomers in the 2000 to 2009 era in Malaysia chinese region and was catching some eyes of overseas producers to sign abroad. Timing, and luck had hold them back. Yes, none of them had the luck like Nicholas Teo had back in his early days.
Andrew Chen is one of the quickest among four to pick up from the low side. The winner of the World Chinese Singing Competition held in HK, TVB, landed in the spotlights with high expectation to achieve what Nicholas once achieved. However, due to negative exposure and mismanage by his first record company leads him to a huge downfall. After the expiring of the unfruitful record contract that held him back, he starts to spread his wings with the new EP "Stardom 天后" and setting trends in local music trends. In securing the image step, he is quickly focusing himself into a new recording material to get him ready for his career launch to international market.
My recommendstions would be following a steps of formula sets by Nicholas's career. Venturing into Singapore, Hongkong and China then Taiwan. With the help of ASTRO network of TV stations, he can easily gain enough exposure for these markets. With his hosting ability previously he can gain more exposure by doing music related programme as with JiaYu tv station or something related. This guy is already start sailing.
As for Jiakai, 9 years ago he was the most promising male artist by just listening to his EP with just 5 tracks (2 of them are demos), I quickly hook on this artist. But by the end of the day he is not seen anywhere, with just keeping hearing his recents news from INTI. After years of hiatus, people still ask, where had this JiaKai gone? No one remembers his look, but strong memories of his voice from the korean verse of FLIGHT 943(飞行943) still huanting me. His guest appearance in Penny's song a few years back got me excited which quickly turns my hope of his return to dust. No other artist caught my curiousity that much. Rumours about his girlfriend from preventing his return to music scene fuel up my curiousity. Until last December 2009, Jiakai is officially back to music.
His career relaunch had compare to many establish power singer like Jam Hsiao, but he is one of a kind and he is a natural born vocalist. I always though he could achieve more than any other newcomers from the past 10 years. He is a gem and whereever he goes sure success comes. The holdback of his success goes to his ability to communicate with the media and presenting himself as a superstar. To me, he still looks like a boy next door. A good platform of positioning him in the market is crucial. There isn't any difficulity to launch such a talent any where. Infact he can launch his new album direct at Taiwan, wouldn't be a problem. (Comparing to Wu Jia Fei. he's a bit harder).
Vchuan, is my most favourite among all four. While Jiakai is the most talented vocalist of all four, Vchuan is the given the gift of song writing skills(Both of them also studying in the same college, INTI). From his earliest times of "明天爱谁（Who I Love tomorrow)“, that sparks up a fight between Joey Yung and Jiang MeiChi for wanting to sing the same song, to recent success of numberous hit song written to ShenMu Yu Tong, Jerry Yan, Ding Dang and Rachel Liang. (Most are chosen as main singles from respective album.) He was a promising new artist at the times he released his debut in Malaysia. He had his dark times when his record company that offers him to Taiwan, closed down. Within 2 years of dark times, he had successfully establish himself as hot song writing in Taiwan.
Now with recent news from him that he had been offer a chance to release an album, I wish him best of lucks. With a good make over on the image and his polished new songs, he will definitely find himself a spot in the Taiwan music business. He is now starting out to flame up his reputation with the appearance of SUPERSTAR singing competition. I could see a good future ahead of him.
Quincy Chen on the other hand seems the less lucky ones. His image appears to be too common and only till the time I listen his debut album, (which also did release in Taiwan) I felt he is commercial enough to be an idol. He is sees as like Malaysia version of TANK(Taiwan artist), able to writes his own songs and sing well the same time. However, with lack of his information, (I presume mismanage from his record company) he seems had not make a good impact on the local audience back 3 years ago. Even his venture to Taiwan and China turns out unsuccessful.
From recent news, that he had signed a Taiwan company and under goes neccessary trainings, I am sure he is a good gem inside. By polish some of his writing skills, a star-culture-lesson, and adding a little exposure on the tv/radio hosting, I am sure he could easily stand out from the rest. With a whole new image, and constant exposure its not hard to bring him up.
An artist development usually takes some times. The four Cs I introduce here will be huge with some luck with them, so I will just wait the next 2 years to see them expand out of Malaysia music scene.
