▲ This photo, provided by YonhapNews Television, shows Cho Yong-pil. (PHOTO NOT FOR SALE) (Yonhap)

 

▲ South Korean pop legend Cho Yong-pil performs during a concert for his 50th-anniversary tour "Thanks to You" at a gym in Seoul on Dec. 16, 2018, in this photo provided by his fan club. (Yonhap)

 

 

SEOUL, Apr. 20 (Yonhap) – S. Korean legendary singer Cho Yong-pil is expected to make a comeback with a new album this year.

According to the music scene on Apr. 20, the singer has recently started on working on the new album and is speeding up on making a new song.

The official from the singer said, “Cho is working faster on the new album than ever,” adding, “He’s working on the album with the goal of releasing it within the year.”

It is known that the singer is currently reviewing diverse songs under various genres and concepts.

If the singer releases the album as planned, it will be the first album in about 9 years since the 19th album “Hello,” which was released in 2013.

The details have not been announced, but it will be the singer’s 20th album if it is dropped as a full album.

Cho, who debuted as a member of the rock group Atkins in 1968, performed in the bands Kim Trio and Cho Yong-pil and Shadows(translated) and debuted as a solo artist.

Starting with the hit song “Come Back to Busan Harbor(translated) dropped in 1976, the singer has produced the first million seller in the domestic music scene with his first album, which includes the songs “Woman Outside Window” and “Bobbed Hair” released in 1980.

Cho has set countless records, such as becoming the first Korean singer to surpass a million copies of a single album, to exceed cumulative ten million copies, to hit a million copies of a single album in Japan, and to perform at the Radio City Music Hall in New York, United States.

In terms of Cho’s 19th full album, which was most recently released, it has drawn great attention of people from diverse age groups and won trophies in the music programs for the first time in 23 years.

Cho showed interests in Electronic Dance Music(EDM), which was popular at the time, by mentioning it at the press conference held to mark his 50th debut anniversary in 2018, “Music is just music, and it becomes history when the time goes by.”

He also said during a radio program in the same year, “I’m not concerned about the genre.”

(This article is translated from Korean to English by Kim Sun Min)

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