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Dictionaries export , created on PHP,. Mark and share Search through all dictionaries Translate… Search Internet. Daming , Hebei , China. January 29, Baojhong , Yunlin , Taiwan. May 8, aged 42 Chiang Mai , Thailand. Mandopop , Cantopop , J-Pop. Contents 1 Biography 1. Preceded by George Lam. Teng's contract with Polydor ended in , and she signed a contract with Taurus Records in and made a successful comeback appearance in Japan. In , Taurus released her album, Dandan youqing, which consisted of settings of 12 poems from the Tang and Song dynasties.
The music, written by composers of her earlier hits, blended modern and traditional Oriental and Occidental styles.
The most popular single from the album is "Wishing We Last Forever". The number of hits released in the years from to make them "Teresa Teng's Golden Years" to many of her fans. During this time, she won the All-Japan Record Awards for four consecutive years — In the early s, continuing political tension between mainland China and Taiwan led to her music, along with that of other singers from Taiwan and Hong Kong, being banned for several years in mainland China for being too "bourgeois".
Her popularity in mainland China continued to grow nonetheless thanks to its black market. As Teng songs continued to be played everywhere, from nightclubs to government buildings, the ban on her music was soon lifted. Her fans nicknamed her "Little Deng" because she had the same family name as Deng Xiaoping; there was a saying that "Deng the leader ruled by day, but Deng the singer ruled by night. During the s, Filipina entertainers in Japan loved her songs so much, they covered her music in karaoke bars.
They were engaged in , but Teng called off the engagement due to prenuptial agreements which stipulated that she had to quit and sever all ties with the entertainment industry, as well as fully disclose her biography and all her past relationships in writing.
The subterfuge had seemed necessary due to the official break in relations between Republic of China and Japan that occurred shortly after the People's Republic of China replaced the ROC in the United Nations. Her popularity boomed in the s after her success in Japan.
In Taiwan, she was known not only as the island's most popular export, but as "the soldier's sweetheart" because of her frequent performances for servicemen. Teng was herself the child of a military family. Her concerts for troops featured Taiwanese folk songs that appealed to natives of the island as well as Chinese folk songs that appealed to homesick refugees of the civil war.
Until the late s, foreign music was not allowed into mainland China and love songs were virtually unknown. Teng's popular romantic song "The Moon Represents My Heart," released in , became one of the first foreign songs to break into the country. Japan comprised the second-largest music market any- where after the United States, which meant that everything was on a larger scale. For example, each musical TV program possessed its own full backup band, in contrast to the simple guitarist-drummer-keyboardist combination that prevailed in Taiwan.
Each star had their own retinue attending to every aspect of their appearance, yet at the same time, there was an unrelenting pressure to generate more hits. Despite her mixed feelings, Teresa received fresh stimulation from working in Japan, as singing with greater backup and within the melodramatic enka tradition allowed her voice to develop substantially greater expressiveness.
And her success in Japan gave her cachet as she returned to the production of Mandarin hits in Hong Kong. My feelings are real, my love is real: The moon represents my heart. Following complex negotiations, she was freed to travel to the United States, where she spent the next year and a half. For most of this period, she maintained a low profile as an auditor of classes at UCLA.
Meanwhile, she learned of her popularity in an especially unexpected location: the PRC. The PRC, in turn, intermittently prohibited her music. Back in Hong Kong, her career reached its crest at the end of with a series of sold-out concerts at the Hong Kong Coliseum that formed the kickoff for her Fifteenth Anniversary Concert Tour.
These concerts broke all sorts of Hong Kong records and played to a combined total audience of about , people. This album became her most critically acclaimed for its expert rendering of a classical lexicon and atmosphere within a modern musical context. A promotional booklet accompanying the album reinforced its image of Teresa as a traditional-style heroine by featuring photos of her dressed in fashions from the imperial era.
In , Teresa returned to Japan for the first time in five years in what was effectually a redebut there. Her two main careers—in Japan and Hong Kong, respectively—henceforth intertwined, as singles she released in Japan scored a second time in Chinese renderings for her Mandopop audience. First came her failed courtship. In , at the age of twenty-nine, she fell in love with Beau Kuok, scion of the ethnic Chinese owner of an upscale hotel chain based in Singapore.
The Communist Party of China eventually invited her to do so in the s, but she never did. Death and commemorations Teresa Teng's Hong Kong house Teng died from a severe asthma attack, though doctors and her partner Paul Quilery had speculated that she died from a heart attack due to a side effect of an overdose of unspecified amphetamines while on holiday in Chiang Mai, Thailand, at the age of 42 on May 8, Quilery was buying groceries when the attack occurred.
He was also aware that Teng relied on the same medication in the two months before her death with minor attacks. Teng was an asthmatic throughout her adult life. She was given state honors at her funeral in Taiwan.
President Lee Teng-hui was in attendance among thousands. The grave site features a statue of Teng and a large electronic piano keyboard set in the ground that can be played by visitors who step on the keys. The memorial is often visited by her fans. A house she bought in in Hong Kong at No. It closed on what would have been her 51st birthday on January 29, Additionally, some of her dresses, jewelry and personal items were placed on exhibition at Yuzi Paradise , an art park outside Guilin, China.
The foundation also served as her wishes to set up a school or educational institute. Personal life Teng had guarded her personal life from the public since , fearing that it would jeopardize her career. She had a failed relationship with the son of a Malaysian gambling tycoon that ended with his death when she was about They met in , but Teng called off the engagement due to prenuptial agreements which stipulated that she had to quit and sever all ties with the entertainment industry, as well as fully disclose her biography and all her past relationships in writing.
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