Power Up! (band)

Power Up! are a video game music/chiptune-rock hybrid furry band based in Oshovia, Fireland. It was formed in 2013 by Jin Lee-Wah and five of his college friends. The band are known for their 1980's video game-inspired fursonas and their backstory, in which they claim to be video game adventurers wanting to explore the real world while based in Higginsburg. They represented Patagonia at the Amerivision Song Festival 2021 with the song "I'm a Gamer" in which they won 3rd place.

Current

 * Jin Lee-Wah: vocals, keytar (Fursona: Jumpdog, a Yorkshire Terrier with jumping abilities a la Mario)
 * Rajesh "Raj" Singh: guitar (Fursona: Speedbunny, a brown rabbit wearing a "jogging suit")
 * Charlie Kim: drums (Fursona: Sir Hedgehog, a hedgehog in knight's armor)
 * Albert Jones: keyboard (Fursona: Rhythm Kitten, a calico cat in a rap outfit inspired by PaRappa the Rapper)
 * Roland Bokwe: bassist (Fursona: Fighterhawk, a red hawk based on Axel Stone from Streets of Rage)
 * Olivier Lévesque: DJ/sound system (Fursona: Red Nukie, a masked zombie-slaying red panda soldier)

G5K design handover
In 2020, W.R. and Sons Pte., Ltd handed the rights to the design for cancelled project G5K over to the band's lead singer and manager Jin Lee-Wah. The band after figuring what to do with the design chose to have the building be used as a backdrop in their music videos.

Trivia

 * Each of the band members are of different ethnic backgrounds:
 * Jin is a Chinese-Singaporean Patagonian (of Cantonese ancestry).
 * Rajesh is of Punjabi descent.
 * Kim is ethnically Korean.
 * Jones is of British-Patagonian heritage (but of Welsh descent)
 * Bokwe is an Afro-Patagonian of Zulu ancestry.
 * Lévesque is of Acadian ancestry.
 * The band members' fursonas are based on various famous classic video games:
 * Jumpdog is based on Super Mario.
 * Speedbunny is based primarily on Sonic the Hedgehog and Crash Bandicoot.
 * Sir Hedgehog takes influences from Rocket Knight and The Legend of Zelda.
 * Rhythm Kitten is mainly based on PaRappa the Rapper.
 * Fighterhawk is based on Street Fighter and other fighting games of the era.
 * Red Nukie is mostly based on Doom, Resident Evil and Wolfenstein.