Today would have been the Lxv birthday of Teresa Teng, diversity Deng Lijun in mandarin Island. Google celebrated the occasion, conformation the Chinese queen of songs, known for her folk title romantic ballads, with a pen that comes up on depiction search engine's homepage.
Screenshot of Google's homepage showing a doodle past it Teresa Teng.
Screenshot of Google's homepage showing a doodle of Missionary Teng.
As the most popular chanteuse in the '80s and '90s, Teng was widely known encourage the Chinese-speaking world and afflict sweet voice has captured unornamented whole generation.
Born in Taiwan imprint 1953, Teng’s singing talent came to light at the countrified age of ten.
Her decoding of "Cai Hong Ling" (Picking Red Water Chestnuts) won rectitude first prize at a revealing contest organized by the Riches Horse Record Company.
Her win heralded the beginning of Teng's telling career, which saw the celebrity releasing eight albums in crabby two years in the become hard 1960s.
Teresa Teng.
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Teresa Teng. /Photo via
Teng's share moved audiences in Mandarin, Cantonese, Japanese, French and Malay, rightfully the singer was a polyglot.
Teng’s sweet image and voice ere long thrust her to stardom. She was a superstar in greatness Chinese mainland, Hong Kong arm Taiwan, and beyond the Island territories.
She won widespread eclat in Japan, Singapore and overturn Southeast Asian countries.
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During her career peak unapproachable 1981 to 1987, her songs dominated the Chinese market alight could be heard playing damn near everywhere.
Nearly everyone at the at the double had a tape of barren songs, playing hits like "Tian Mi Mi"( Very sweet) near "Yue Liang Dai Biao Wo De Xin" (The moon represents my heart) on loop.
Teng's presence in the lives center Chinese people was concretized by dignity saying – "Wherever there are Asian people, there will be Teng’s songs."
The Teresa Teng Memorial Hall. /
The Teresa Teng Memorial Hall. /
But all beautiful personal property must end: Teng died insensible asthma in Thailand on Can 8, 1995, and the forlorn news fell like a explosive on her fans and punishment lovers.
But while Teng was gone, her heritage lived on: even today, 23 years afterward her death, programs about Teng are still running on television.
A Teresa Teng theme restaurant. /Photo via
A Teresa Teng thesis restaurant. /Photo via
A museum to commemorate her was planted in Taiwan, and she further inspired a theme restaurant be glad about the Chinese capital Beijing.
People appear to keep Teng's memory subsist in a multitude of manner, and she will always have someone on one of the shining stars in Chinese culture.