Teresa Teng

Teresa Teng (Chinese邓丽君, Pinyin Deng Lijun, Teng Li- chun W.-G., maiden name :邓丽筠, Deng Liyun; born January 29, 1953 in the town of Bao-zhong, Yunlin County, Taiwan, † 8 May 1995 in Chiang Mai, Thailand) was a Taiwanese singer.

Biography

Teresa Teng was born in the town of Bao-zhong (Chinese褒忠 乡) in Taiwan, Yunlin County. She had three older and one younger brother. At the age of five she began to accompany her father to performances of Peking Opera. At age ten, she won the Huangmei Opera Vocal Competition. In 1967, she broke off her training at the Ginling Girls High School to begin her singing career with Universal Records.

In 1973 she went to Japan and released their first Japanese album there successfully. It was followed by appearances in Hong Kong, the U.S. and Canada. Teresa Teng never visited the People's Republic of China. Although their music was there very well known and popular, but was in the 1960s and 1970s officially as decadent and as so-called yellow music.

She performed in Paris in 1989 on, when the protests began on the Tiananmen Square, and supported the student demonstrators. 1992 decided Liu Zhongde, the then Minister of Culture of the People's Republic of China, Teresa Teng invite. Because of political entanglements this invitation was never officially issued.

Teresa Teng died during a trip to Thailand in Chiang Mai on an asthma attack. She received a state funeral in Jinshan, Taipei County, Taiwan.

Music

The repertoire of Teresa Teng was remarkably broad, ranging from their own and traditional songs in various languages ​​, such as Mandarin, Taiwanese, Cantonese, Japanese, Indonesian and English.

Special attention was given to her 1983 released album "Light Exquisite Feeling" (Chinese淡淡幽情, Pinyin Dandan You Qing ). It is known worldwide as the first album, to be offered in the poems from the Tang and Song dynasties as songs.

Your best-known and most popular Chinese song is甜蜜 蜜, Pinyin Tian Mi Mi, which symbolizes " close, warm love affair" is translated as " honeyed ", " happy " or " delighted " is, though.