Teresa Teng
Teresa Teng ( Chinese 鄧麗君 , Pinyin Dèng Lìjūn , W.-G. Teng Li- chün , maiden name: 鄧麗筠 , Dèng Lìyún; born January 29, 1953 in Baozhong , Yunlin County , Taiwan ; † May 8, 1995 in Chiang Mai , Thailand ) was a Taiwanese singer.
biography
Teresa Teng was born in Baozhong Township ( Chinese 褒忠 鄉 ) in Yunlin County, Taiwan . She had three older brothers and one younger brother. At the age of five, she began to accompany her father to performances of the Peking Opera . When she was ten, she won the Huangmei Opera Singing Competition. In 1967 she dropped out of Ginling Girls High School to begin her singing career with Universal Records.
In 1973 she went to Japan and successfully released her first Japanese album there. Appearances in Hong Kong , the USA and Canada followed . Teresa Teng never visited the People's Republic of China . Although their music was very well known and popular there, it was officially considered decadent and so-called yellow music in the 1960s and 1970s .
She performed in Paris in 1989 when the protests began in Tian'anmen Square and supported the students demonstrating. In 1992, Liu Zhongde , then Minister of Culture of the People's Republic of China, decided to invite Teresa Teng. Because of political entanglements, this invitation was never officially issued.
Teresa Teng died of an asthma attack at the Imperial Mae Ping Hotel while touring Thailand in Chiang Mai . She received a state funeral at Chin Pao San Cemetery , Jinshan, Taipei County, Taiwan .
music
The repertoire of Teresa Teng was remarkably broad and included own and traditional songs in different languages, such as Mandarin , Taiwanese , Cantonese , Japanese , Indonesian and English .
Her album "Light Exquisite Feeling" ( Chinese 淡淡幽情 , Pinyin Dàndàn Yōu Qíng ) , published in 1983, received special attention . It is considered the first album in the world in which poems from the Tang and Song dynasties are presented as songs.
Her best-known and most popular song is Chinese 甜蜜 蜜 , Pinyin Tián Mì Mì , which translates as “honey-sweet”, “happy” or “delighted”, but symbolically stands for “close, warm love affair”.
Web links
- Teresa Teng Foundation 鄧麗君 文教 基金會
- One and Only - Teresa Teng 鄧麗君 テ レ サ ・ テ ン
- Teresa Teng on MusicBrainz (English)
- Fansite Teresa Teng
Individual evidence
- ↑ The grave of Teresa Teng. In: knerger.de. Klaus Nerger, accessed on April 27, 2020 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Teng, Teresa |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 邓丽君 (simplified Chinese); 鄧麗君 (traditional Chinese); Teng Li-chun (Wade-Giles); Dèng Lìjūn (pinyin); Deng Li Yun |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Taiwanese singer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 29, 1953 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Yunlin, Taiwan |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 8, 1995 |
| Place of death | Chiang Mai , Thailand |