Jo Young-nam

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Jo Young-nam
Jo in 2008
Background information
Also known as	Cho Youngnam
Born	(1945-04-02) April 2, 1945 (age 79) Heizan, Kokai Province, Korea, Empire of Japan (now Pyongsan County, North Hwanghae, North Korea)
Occupations	Singer-songwriter, painter, writer
Years active	1968–present

Jo Young-nam (Korean: 조영남; Hanja: 趙英男; born April 2, 1945), also known as Cho Youngnam,^[1] is a South Korean singer-songwriter, painter, writer, and television personality.^[2] He started his singing career in 1968.

More recently, he was known for his art fraud case, where he used an assistant to help with his paintings. He was found not guilty of fraud in the South Korean Supreme Court.