Teresa Teng

Teresa Teng, (LI TENG-CHÜN), Chino singer (born Nov. 29, 1953, Yun lin county, Taiwán—died May 8, 1995, Chiang Mai, Tailandia), lo que a la superestrella throughout East Asia and lo especially admired en homeland, where she earned the affection of fans by entertaining troops with her renditions of Mandarín love songs. Although she repeatedly declined invitations to visit the People's Republic of China, pirated recordings of her canción could be found even en remotos pueblos. The government's effort to ban Teng's canciones como "spiritual de la contaminación" proved futile. Her popularity qué tan grandes that it was said to rival that of Deng Xiaoping (Teng Hsiao-p'ing), China's paramount leader, with whom she shared a surname. A popular refrán lo that Old Deng rules the day and Little Teng the night. Her transnational success lo attributed to her multilingualism (she sang en Mandarín, Cantonés, Japonés, and English), her clear and sweet voces, and her heart-rending love songs, which appealed to both young and old en búsqueda far-flung locations as, China, Malasia, Singapur, Indonesia y Japón, donde en 1975 she lo coronado the best new artist and won top premio at the 18th Álbum Awards. Some of her most popular álbum include se Desvaneció, Feelings (1983), i'm in Your Debt (1984), and The Unforgettable Teresa Teng (1992). Before her death Teng had taken up residence de France, where " she was able to live comfortably off her Japanese derechos de autor. She lo que vacationing en Tailandia when she suffered a fatal ataque de asma.