Who is Cho yong-pil ?

Who is Cho YongPil (조용필) ?

While Psy's new song 'Gentleman' was making another Big hit, there was another new album which was fully prepared to make Koreans happy. 

In Korea, as soon as his song was released, it beat Gentleman.

 Even Billboard mentioned about him so, there is no excuse for it we were really excited. 

(Billboard article - http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/k-town/1559995/cho-yong-pil-knocks-psy-from-no-1-on-k-pop-hot-100 )

 We call him A 'King' !

 As Jeff Benjamin and Jessica Oak said, he is the History of Korea song like Michael Jackson. (except his is still alive. :P)

So I'm so happy about it. Not because finally you guys know about our King, finally you guys know there is another type of Korea songs. Obviously, there are so many K-POPs are beloved worldwidely but, they are all with too much electronic sounds or just like POP.


Well. I can't deny that his(Jo yongpil) new songs aren't like that, but there are so many true K-POPs of him.



Here's his simple Profile.

Cho Yong-pil (hangul: 조용필; hanja: 趙容弼; also written Jo Yong-pil) is a South Korean pop singer born in 1950. Many Korean Pop Fans fans believe that Cho is one of the most influential figures in Korean pop music and has produced many hits of Korean pop music history, including "Return to Busan Port", "Dear Friend" and "The Lady Outside the Window". (Wekipedia)

 

Despite he is 64 years old now, his voice is exactly same as before.

It's such a luck for Korea people I think.

 

 

He had a Showcase for new album. (It was his first showcase in his whole life.)

After some young singers sang his song to show their respect, he sang 3new songs.

This is his title song, Hello.

As you might see he missed some lyrics.

Maybe he was pretty nervous or it's too fast to song whatever, he is 64.

 

Still, his voice is amazing.

 

 

 

This is the 'BOUNCE'. Which beat the Gentleman.

 

 

Here are more videos.

 

 

 

This is my favorite song of him, '이젠 그랬으면 좋겠네'

It was released 80s.

I would love to translate this lyrics, but I'm not sure we can have sympathy for its sensitivity

ㅠㅠ

 

 

 

This is a really popular song, 모나리자 (Mona Lisa)/ 1988

(Performance in 1993)

I don't know how they could make song like this at that time !

Maybe I wasn't even a person at this time !

And, who could sing this song that much perfectly !



I hope he could song as much as he wants