조용필
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Influential Korean singer Jo Yong-pil, often called 가왕 (King of Singers)
An ordinary boy with no memories of singing before a crowd, he was so moved by Ray Charles’s voice as a child one day that he became interested in pop music. He later saw a Ventures performance and was compelled to learn how to play the guitar. His father, educator and founder of a middle school, thoroughly opposed the idea of his becoming an entertainer, but his determination only grew all the more for his father’s opposition, and he dove into music the moment he graduated from high school.
Birthday: 1950, March 21
Label: Pil Records
Schooling: Graduated from 경동고등학교 (Kyung-Dong High School) in 1968
Debut: 1st Album in 1979
Hit Songs
* 돌아와요 부산항에 (Come Back, to Busan’s Harbor)
* 고추잠자리 (Red Dragonfly)
* 모나리자 (Mona Lisa)
* 단발머리 (Bob cut)
* 비련 (Tragic Attachment)
* 허공 (Empty Air)
* 친구여 (Dear Friend)
* 못찾겠다 꾀꼬리 (It Seems I Can’t Find the Nightingale)
* 꿈 (Dream)
* 창밖의 여자 (Woman Outside the Window)
* 킬리만자로의 표범 (Kilimanjaro’s Leopard)
Height: 166 cm
Weight: 56kg
Blood type: O
Hobbies: listening to music, golf, playing the guitar
Specialties: music & lyric composition
Nicknames: 작은거인 (Small Giant), 풀빵 (Pool-Bbang, a round inexpensive Korean pastry), 조방범 (Crime Fighter Jo)
Favorite food: 생선찌개 saengsunjjigae, fish stew
Experience
1969 Guitarist for group Five Fingers
1969 (Feb.) Formed group Atkins, performed for the U.S. army
1971 (May) Joined Kim Trio
1975 Joined with Geurimja (Shadow)
1978 Joined with Widaehan Tansaeng (Great Birth)
An ordinary boy with no memories of singing before a crowd, he was so moved by Ray Charles’s voice as a child one day that he became interested in pop music. He later saw a Ventures performance and was compelled to learn how to play the guitar. His father, educator and founder of a middle school, thoroughly opposed the idea of his becoming an entertainer, but his determination only grew all the more for his father’s opposition, and he dove into music the moment he graduated from high school.
Birthday: 1950, March 21
Label: Pil Records
Schooling: Graduated from 경동고등학교 (Kyung-Dong High School) in 1968
Debut: 1st Album in 1979
Hit Songs
* 돌아와요 부산항에 (Come Back, to Busan’s Harbor)
* 고추잠자리 (Red Dragonfly)
* 모나리자 (Mona Lisa)
* 단발머리 (Bob cut)
* 비련 (Tragic Attachment)
* 허공 (Empty Air)
* 친구여 (Dear Friend)
* 못찾겠다 꾀꼬리 (It Seems I Can’t Find the Nightingale)
* 꿈 (Dream)
* 창밖의 여자 (Woman Outside the Window)
* 킬리만자로의 표범 (Kilimanjaro’s Leopard)
Height: 166 cm
Weight: 56kg
Blood type: O
Hobbies: listening to music, golf, playing the guitar
Specialties: music & lyric composition
Nicknames: 작은거인 (Small Giant), 풀빵 (Pool-Bbang, a round inexpensive Korean pastry), 조방범 (Crime Fighter Jo)
Favorite food: 생선찌개 saengsunjjigae, fish stew
Experience
1969 Guitarist for group Five Fingers
1969 (Feb.) Formed group Atkins, performed for the U.S. army
1971 (May) Joined Kim Trio
1975 Joined with Geurimja (Shadow)
1978 Joined with Widaehan Tansaeng (Great Birth)
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