Teresa Teng

Teresa Teng, (TENG LI-CHÜN), Chinese singer (born Janv. 29, 1953, Yun-lin county, Taiwan died May 8, 1995, Chiang Mai, Thaïlande), ce qui a superstar throughout East Asia and was especially admired in her homeland, where she earned the affection de fans by entertaining troops with her renditions of Mandarin love songs. Although she repeatedly declined invitations to visit the People's Republic of China, pirated recordings of her chansons could be found even à distance des villages. The government’s effort to ban Teng chansons as "spiritual pollution" proved futile. Her popularity ce que pour great that it was said to rival that of Deng Xiaoping (Teng Hsiao-p'ing), Chine’s paramount leader, with whom she shared a surname. A popular énonciation de ce que that Old Deng ruled the day and Little Teng the night. Her transnational success ce que attributed to her multilinguisme (elle a chanté en Mandarin, Cantonese, Japanese, and English), her clear and sweet voix, and her heart-rending love songs, which appealed to both young and old de recherche far-flung locations as la Chine, la Malaisie, Singapour, l'Indonésie et le Japon, where en 1975 she ce que crowned the best new artist and won top prize at the 18th Album Awards. Some of her most popular album include Faded Feelings (1983), i'm in Your Debt (1984), and The Unforgettable Teresa Teng (1992). Before her death Teng had taken up residence en France, where she was able to live comfortably off her Japanese royalties. She ce que vacationing en Thaïlande when she suffered a fatal de l'asthme attaque.