Gawang Cho Yong-pil, 68, who hit his debut 50 Years this year, praised the performance of the group BTS, which has twice climbed to the top of the Billboard.
Cho Yong-pil is called "Aid Hallyu" singer who entered Japan in 1986 and enjoyed popularity as much as domestic. In May, BTS expressed respect for "I am really strong as a junior for practicing how to do music in the future," in a 50 Years celebration video interview by Cho Yong-pil, and Cho Yong-pil congratulated BTS's Basket of Flowers on the performance of the Seoul Jamsil Olympic Stadium last month.
"It's worth sending (Basket of Flowers) - not usually a singer, it means congratulations as a senior in the music industry," he said.
"Now that music is going to go out around the world through YouTube and young people will have more brilliant ideas, I expect that if music is good, there will be a singer who will continue to perform on Billboard." "Of course, it is a Korean song, but nowadays, I think it is possible to see it. "
Cho Yong-pil is hosting the 50 Years Memorial Tour, "Thanks To You," starting at the Olympic Main Stadium in May this year. From the first day, we started to tour Suwon and Daejeon in the second half of the year.
He said, "I am 50 Years, but now I think the fans Power is the strongest. "This year was the most enthusiastic," he said. "The elderly seem to have the most in their late 40s and early 50s, but they bring their children.
He emphasized the Powerful Power of the audience.
“When I’m performing, I have a lot more Power than my energy, and it’s the Power that the audience gives me, of course, depending on the space, like studios and gyms, that can be more Powerful or less Powerful. Small spaces are good for immersion, but wide places like Power are better. But the greatest Power is the audience. "
He is the singer who led the "brother" unit in the 1980s, and the middle-aged audience still responds by shouting "brother" and "brother" at the concert hall. When asked about the secret of dragging fandom for 50 Years, he said, "I don't know. I wonder if you keep loving me, but the person who saw the performance has seen it many times and the person who did not see it has never seen it. "
The most memorable performance of the past 50 Years was the 2003 Olympic Main Stadium performance.
"It was too raining, and the stage was all water and the monitor was out," he said. "It was too hard, but the audience did not go to the end, so it was so touching."
He said that the performance was always the same, but the harder thing was the album work. In 2013, he released his 19th album and was evaluated as having achieved the integration of new and old generations with the widespread calls of "Hello" and "Bounce", but there has been no news of new news over the past five years.
Asked if public expectations were burdensome, he shook his head, saying, "It's massive, it's hard, it's crazy."
"I live in my destiny, but the hard part is albums, music. I originally thought of 'Performance after the pre-album' to hold the 50 Years event in September. But I couldn't go on my own because people around me had to perform in May, and I couldn't do both things at once, so I folded everything and performed, and the album was stopped. I'm going to start again after the December performance."
Asked if he plans to remake his own song, he said, "Remake is like making a new song because it leaves only melody and changes rhythm and tone." "If you want to listen after 10 years, you have to make it ahead of you. I have a hard time making a new song because I have to do it because I have to leave it to me. I have not thought about it. " After performing, he is so precise that he keeps revising his favorite parts while turning the video of the stage full shot the next day.
Cho Yong-pil will appear on KBS 2TV's "Endless Masterpieces" as well as this year's commemorative tour, and will also appear on "Bae Cheol-soo's Music Camp" on the 19th as part of MBCFM4U's Cho Yong-pil 50 Years tribute broadcast. After declaring the suspension of broadcasting after the 13th album 'Dream' in 1991, he returned to the performance stage from the 14th album. "I do not want to worry that the singer will not be able to ride this year. I want to get out of that frame. "Since 1987, I have not been to the broadcasting company awards ceremony.
"I did not broadcast, but I took three weeks of 'Endless Masterpiece' a day," he said. "I was in the worst condition earlier this year, but I was blanked because I recorded it for nine consecutive hours. I had to make a review while watching the stage and I had to talk about the old days. " "Radio is the first in the 21st century after appearing in the 1990s," he added. "I know it's been two hours."
He repeatedly said that he does not give special meaning to 50 Years on the day. However, fellow singers, actors and broadcasters praised his 50 Years in a relay interview, including "National Treasure," "Living History," and "Music Textbooks."
In the future, he said that he wants to make a song that anyone can follow.
"I've been saying, "People's singers, Idol, people's songs these days." I don't think it's time for me to sing songs that anyone can easily follow, new ones. I've been slower to make albums than I used to, but I'm still trying to do it. I'm trying."
However, he expressed his unwavering enthusiasm for creation, saying, "When I was young, I was worried about creation. It gets harder and harder when I do this.
I also commented on the story that I started wearing color glasses because of the stage lighting, I had a lot of hair, but I decreased it. I did not dye for a little long, and Saddam was accompanied by an episode that the fans were upset.
Cho Yong-pil will perform local performances from October to November and then hold an encore concert at the Seoul Olympic Park Gymnastics Stadium on December 15-16.
"I didn't think I could have 50 Years on my 45th anniversary, but I can't have 55 at this time, ha ha ha."
Cho Yong-pil, who started his debut 50 Years tour in the second half of the year. "" I think fans are the strongest now. "" Everyone wants to sing a new song.