Teresa Teng : Teng Li-Chun : 鄧麗君 : 邓丽君 : เติ้งลี่จวิน : A legendary and influential C-pop singer from Taipei

December 22, 2007 | By admin In Female Singer |

Teresa Teng Deng Li jun, Tienyang born in a village in the district of Yunlin, Taiwan, mainlander with a family in Hebei province. She studied at Ginling Girls High School.

In 1968, she was famous, after a show on a popular music program Taiwan, published eight albums and within the next two years. In 1973, it is trying to crack the Japanese market, which is Japan’s Kōhaku Uta Gassen, a song of the year with artists of the biggest successes of the year and won the award of “Best New Singing Star.”

In 1974 () 1979, the year in which they were deported to enter a fake Indonesian passport, purchased for $ 20000, a pretext made necessary by a breakdown in relations between Taiwan and Japan to China’s accession to the UN Security Council. Song now in Cantonese, Japanese and English and their mother tongue Mandarin, Teng was quickly People as far away as Malaysia and Indonesia.

In 1983, it publishes its most noted Album Light Exquisite Feeling (淡淡幽情). It includes 12 poems of the Tang Dynasty Song and, to the music by various composers, for the first time in the history of Chinese music. This is the famous song “Wishing It Last Forever” (Shuǐ diào gē tóu,水调歌头), and what was the number of concerns “(Ren Yu Mei,几多愁/虞美人).

It was known, and their music was also very popular in China despite the fact that the authorities had more stories brand, Western music, including music, as “decadent”. However, they have never to execution. It takes place in Paris during the 1989 Tiananmen student uprising, singing for students and have proclaimed their support for them and for democracy. On May 27, 1989, more than 300,000 people have poured into the Happy Valley Racecourse in Hong Kong for a collection called “democratic songs dedicated to China” (民主歌声献中华), and you also the song “My homeland is the on the other side of the mountain. ”

She sang many songs in Japan, including their own originals, like “Airport” (空港), and “I Only Care About You” (時の流れに身をまかせor我只在乎你), as well as some one in tribute to the original artists How Southern All Stars, most of them have been rewritten with Chinese texts.

Long, asthma, Teng died of a severe asthma attack while on holiday in Chiang Mai, Thailand, at the age of 42 (43 Chinese settlement), May 8, 1995. It was a national of a burial at home, in Taiwan, the People’s Republic of China with respect to their flag draped coffin of the ROC, and President Lee Teng-hui in the attendance register.

He is buried in a tomb in the hills of San Pao Chin (金宝山; Jinbaoshan literally Golden Treasure Mountain), a cemetery near Jinshan, Taipei County, Taiwan. A memorial has been sent to the tomb of a statue of Teng and their clothes on stage to present his music plays in the background. There are also a large electronic piano keyboard, visitors can, by clicking on the buttons. The tomb was well attended by their supporters, a remarkable abandonment of traditional Chinese culture meidend visiting cemeteries.

She bought a house in 1986 in Hong Kong, at No. 18 rue Carmel also a place of pilgrimage for his fans shortly after his death. The plans for the sale of the apartment to finance a museum in Shanghai during the year 2002 were made public, and subsequently sold for 32 million HK. It closed, which would have been his 51st The 29th anniversary in January 2004.

To commemorate the 10th anniversary of his death, Teresa Teng Foundation for Culture and Education has launched a campaign under the slogan “Feel Teresa Teng.” In addition to organizing a concert anniversary in Hong Kong and Taiwan, the music fans to pay tribute to his tomb in the cemetery of San Pao Chin. In addition, some of their clothing, jewellery and personal belongings were exposed in Yuzi Paradise, a fleet of art outside of Beijing, China.

In May 2002, Teng wax figure was unveiled at Madame Tussaud’s in Hong Kong.

Teresa Teng’s Early Year Photos. (Click to large.)