Who knew that a natural climatic occurrence could take a human form this sexy?

The phenomenon that is the Rain fever has overtaken Singapore, Asia and the entire world.

Once deemed too ugly to be a singer, Rain is now described as the performer with the looks of a boy but a body of a man.

Born Jeong Ji-Hoon, this Korean dynamo at the young age of 24, has been named TIME Magazine's second most influential entertainer in the world last April.

And this rain definitely caused a storm when he arrived on our sunny shores.

Uncreative song titles (Heard of his hit song "It's Raining", or the latest one "I'm Coming"?) and the many puns of his stage name aside, he mesmerised many with his smooth R&B vocals reminiscent of Usher and Justin Timberlake, and his abdominal muscles - so defined you could do laundry on it.

Youth.SG was atop Mount Faber's The Jewel Box for his press conference on Friday, 19 January 2007, 2 days before staging his "Rain's Coming" World Tour 2007 in Singapore. What we saw was not the charismatic singer oozing sex appeal, but a rather somber and somewhat glum looking Rain.

His 1.84m frame was clad in a white Mandarin-collared shirt accessorised with a scarf, beige-gold jacket and black pants. He had a kooky-cute close-cropped haircut and gold-rimmed aviators sunglasses on.