Teresa Teng is definitely my idol.
May 8 this year is the 15th anniversary of Teresa Teng's death.
With a few months to go before this day, people from all walks of life have already begun to make preparations - some are preparing for the "Teresa Teng 15th Anniversary Charity Concert", some are preparing to issue the "Teresa Teng 15th Anniversary Commemorative Postal Book", and some are preparing to issue the "Teresa Teng 15th Anniversary Commemorative Postal Book". Anniversary commemorative album", some organizations "looking for Teresa Tang's heir and commemorate Teresa Tang's large-scale concert" election activities ......
Deceased 15 years later, Teresa Tang why there is such a charm?
Perhaps because: "In that emotionally barbaric era, Teresa Teng took on the heavy responsibility of advocating for an era, and soothed the hearts - and souls - of countless people with her sweet singing."
Perhaps because, "There is no one like Teresa Teng who has so many great works, so many hard-core fans, and so many of her contemporaries and later generations who have been so y influenced by her."
Perhaps because, "In the 42-year journey of her life, her poignant life of 'loved ones, missed souls, once had, is eternity' is too much to be loved and left behind."
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All this still seems to make it difficult to answer the question: why do people miss Teresa so much?
Legendary life
Tang is known as the "Goddess of the East" and her life is legendary.
Born on January 29, 1953, in Yunlin County, Taiwan, Teresa Teng's real name was Deng Liyuan. Her father was a veteran, originally from Handan, Hebei Province, and her mother from Dongping, Shandong Province. Teng has three older brothers and one younger brother, and due to the number of children, her parents have always lived in a relatively modest way despite their hard labor.
The parents knew early on that their daughter, Teresa Teng, had a good voice and was a good singer. But they could never have imagined that with this specialty, their daughter would not only change the family's financial situation, but also become a superstar in the Chinese world.
When she was 13 years old, Teresa participated in a singing contest with Taiwan's Golden Horse Records and won the championship with her song "Picking Red Ling". The next year, she took a break from high school and joined Cosmos Records, releasing her first album, "Fengyang Flower Drums," that year.In 1968, Teresa Teng began to sing onstage at a number of concert halls, acted in movies, and hosted programs on television. Under the arrangement of the company, Teresa Teng went out of Taiwan and traveled to Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam.
In 1973, Teresa Teng went to the United States to study English and then moved to Japan the following year. Soon after, she won a number of awards, including the 1974 Best New Artist Award in Japan for her song "Empty Harbor. The song sold 750,000 copies.
In 1979, Teresa Teng was honored with the "Best Female Singer" award at Taiwan's Golden Bell Awards. Two years later, her five albums, in Hong Kong at the same time won the "Platinum Record Award", completely conquered the Hong Kong singing world. 1983, 30-year-old Teresa Teng into the peak of her career. 1983, February 19, 20, she entered the world's pop singers dream - - Las Vegas "Kaiju", the United States. -On February 19 and 20, 1983, she went to Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas, becoming the first Chinese to sing there. Many Chinese living in the U.S. still remember the scene - as early as the end of January that year, the concert tickets have been snapped up; "Caesar's Palace" was only 1,100 seats, and later added to 1,500, but the aisles on both sides of the center of the steps, still crowded with people. However, the aisles and the steps in the center were still crowded with spectators. During the performance, Teresa Deng sang 12 Tang and Song poems composed by Fan Zhongyan's Su Mou Zhi - Biyun Tian, Su Dongpo's Shui Du Ge Tou - When will the bright moon be there, and Li Yu's Yu Beauty - When is the time for spring flowers, autumn moon? Shortly thereafter, she set another record, becoming the first Chinese female singer to appear on the stage of New York's Lincoln Center and the Los Angeles Music Center, and at the end of 1983, Teresa Teng, who had already been in the industry for 15 years, held her "15th Anniversary Tour" in Hong Kong, which set a new record in the Chinese singing industry in terms of the scale of the performances, number of audiences, and number of albums sold. In 1986, she was named by the U.S. "Time" magazine as "the world's top seven female singers" and "the world's top ten most popular female singers," becoming the only Asian singer to win these two awards at the same time.
In 1987, Teresa Teng released the album "All I Care About Is You", and since then she has basically stopped participating in commercial activities, gradually entering a state of semi-retirement.
But it was in this year that "Teresa Teng's Two Hundred and Twenty-Five Songs of Her Own Choice," was first released in Beijing. At that time, the songs sung by Teresa Teng had become popular on the mainland. Coupled with the fact that the Taiwan authorities permitted the residents concerned to return to the mainland to visit their relatives, Teresa began to have the idea of performing in the mainland. She originally planned to organize a magnificent concert in Beijing with Dunhuang murals as the background, combined with images of the four classical Chinese beauties. But later, for various reasons, this plan failed to materialize.
In 1989, Teresa moved to France, where she purchased a home and lived in near seclusion. In May of the following year, her father died. When the news came, she became so sick with grief that she was unable to return to Taiwan for the funeral.
In 1993, Teresa returned to Taiwan. In an interview, she said, "Over the years, I've been semi-retired, but I love music, and I'll never give up on the music side of things, not the entertainment singing. I used to go into recording studios in England, France and Japan to work on my vocal base. My teacher in England gave me a 'homework' and I had to hang my own voice at home at least 4 times a week. Usually also pay attention to the basic voice maintenance, cigarettes can not smoke, wine will drink a little, there is a period of time I eat all vegetarian, now willing to eat a little fish and chicken breast ......"
May 8, 1995, a bad news spread around the world - - that day, at the age of 42, the singer was killed. -On that day, Teresa Teng, aged 42, died in Chiang Mai, Thailand, of a sudden asthma attack. A singing superstar of the Chinese world, so far away.
The soul returns to the island
At 10:30 p.m. on May 11, 1995, Thai Airways flight 633, carrying Teresa Teng's body, arrived at Taipei Taoyuan Airport.
On the return of the soul of the "daughter of the treasure island", the Taiwan side to break the custom, the airport in the formalities of all simple, and allowed Teresa Teng's family, fans and Taiwan officials to the tarmac to welcome the remains. Teresa Teng's body was then taken to the Taipei First Funeral Parlor. There, a copper casket encrusted with crystal glass that could preserve the body for 50 years was placed; Taiwan's "Army Musical Band" served as the honor guard for the funeral hall and the funeral; and 200,000 people lined up outside the funeral home all night waiting to say their final goodbyes to Teresa Teng. On that day, traffic in Taipei was paralyzed.
On May 28, Teresa Teng's coffin was transported to the Jinbao Mountain Cemetery - Gyungyuan - in Jinshan Township, Taipei County, to be buried alongside her father's bones. Previously, the owner of the Jinbao Mountain Cemetery contacted the Deng family at the first time, at a symbolic price of NT$1, a piece of feng shui land in the park with a backdrop of the mountains and the sea "sold" to the Deng family as Teresa Deng's final destination. According to her real name, the cemetery was named "Peony Park".
A few days ago, a reporter from Global People Magazine drove an hour from Taipei City to Jinbao Mountain Cemetery. Following the sound of Teresa Teng's songs, we soon found the Garden.
The Peony Garden is divided into two parts: the square and the cemetery. The square is a bit larger than the cemetery, and there is a piano "buried" on the ground, with only the huge keyboard exposed. This is a famous Japanese designer's work. As long as the tourists' feet step on the keyboard, the piano will make a beautiful sound. In the middle of the square is a full-body statue of Teresa Teng. She smiles slightly and stretches out her hands as if welcoming all those who come for her. At the entrance of the cemetery, there is a round pavilion house, which is the sound and light control center of Gyungyuan. The computer inside the pavilion house stores the songs sung by Teresa Teng and plays them on a daily loop.
The headstone in the cemetery is carved with Teresa Teng's head. The coffin lid behind the tombstone is made of polished black marble. Behind the lid is a stone sculpture, the upper half of which is a reclining figure of Teresa Teng, the lower half of which has a colorful photo of her inlaid on the right side, and on the left side, the words "Teresa Teng, 1953-1995" are written. On the right side of the coffin lid, there is a huge stone with the inscription "Gyungyuan" written by the incumbent Chairman of the pro-democratic party, Mr. James Soong. On the left side of the lid, there is a stone monument with the same epitaph - "Here lies a superstar who has dedicated his life to the art of singing" - engraved in several languages.
Whenever you come to Gyungyuan, you will see that the tombstone is decorated with flowers offered by fans. Teresa Teng's fans from all over the world come from far and wide to pay their respects, so the place is crowded all year round, and the flowers are always in bloom in all seasons. In front of the stone monument inscribed "Peony Garden", there is a tree full of small wooden signs, which are all written by fans in memory of the words.
When will you come again
"When will you come again?" Today, 15 years after Teresa Teng's death, more and more people are using her songs to express their feelings of remembrance and memorialization.
In the past 15 years, pop music has undergone radical changes, and the "wind vane" of Chinese pop songs has turned in countless directions. But Teresa Teng's songs are still sung over and over again. Cheng Fang Yuan, Na Ying, Cheng Lin, Qi Qin, Faye Wong, Leon Lai, Jay Chou, Zhang Liang Ying ...... Generations of famous singers in the Chinese singing world, or because of the cover of Teresa Teng's songs and a hit, or thus reach the peak of their careers. The young generation grew up to the beautiful melodies of "The Moon Represents My Heart", "Wish People Lasted Long", "Sweet Honey" and "I Only Care About You".
In 2008, Teresa Teng's song "Wish People Lasted Forever" was launched into space with the manned spacecraft Shenzhou VII. In 2009, Teresa Teng was ranked first in the selection of "New China's Most Influential Cultural Figures" with more than 8.5 million votes. On the eve of March 8, 2010, International Working Women's Day, Teresa Teng was selected as the "Most Influential Woman in China" by a number of well-known Chinese-language media; her ancestral home, Handan, Hebei Province, will host the "2010 - Teresa Teng's Hometown Tour", which will be held in the city of Handan. 2010 - Teresa Teng's hometown line" activities ......
In memory of Teresa Teng, the two sides of the Taiwan Strait built several memorial halls. In the late 1990s, Teresa Teng's former residence in Stanley, Hong Kong, just opened, ushered in hundreds of thousands of tourists, even the floor was trampled; In 2003, the mainland for the first time set up Teresa Teng's memorial site - her clothes mound and memorial statue, completed in Shanghai, where she aspired to be during her lifetime; in 2006, the location of Teresa Teng's former residence - Lushu, Taipei County, began construction of the "Teresa Teng Theme Park"......
Witnessing things is more like thinking about people
April 22, 2010, located in Kaohsiung City, Taiwan's "Teresa Teng Memorial Heritage Museum "The official opening of the museum. Kaohsiung City Mayor, KMT members of the "Legislative Yuan", the Secretary General of the People's Democratic Party and other people from all walks of life in Taiwan, all went to participate. This is the world's first Teresa Teng Memorial Museum.
On April 29, a reporter from Globalist Magazine arrived at the Heritage Museum early in the morning and found that visitors had already formed a long line.
The museum covers a total area of about 800 square meters and is divided into two buildings. The front building displays the Mercedes-Benz car used by Teresa Teng during her travels to France; the briefing room next to it houses a large number of newspapers, photos and audio-visual materials, introducing the whole process of her birth, growth and development of her singing career. The back building displays Teresa Teng's performance costumes, jewelry and collectibles, as well as furniture and ornaments moved from her living room, dining room and bedroom, and the mahjong table she gave to her mother. Visitors to the memorial hall can hum Teresa's songs to accompanying music.
"Teresa Teng Memorial Heritage Museum" on the opening day, Teresa Teng's elder brother, Deng Changan, emotionally told the cause of the museum. "Since my sister passed away, it has been constantly suggested to build a pavilion in her honor, but it has not been built." In August 2009, the Deng family to deal with the old house in Luzhou, Taipei County, Deng Changan and his third brother, Deng Changfu, Teresa Teng's relics shipped to Kaohsiung, "trial" a "Teresa Teng Cultural Relics Pavilion". As a result, there was a steady stream of tourists visiting the museum. Especially from the mainland tourists, every day there are nearly 20 groups of about 600 people. Many of them, "Teresa Teng Heritage Museum" and Sun Moon Lake, Alishan together, as in Taiwan during the "three must-see". It is the enthusiasm of the fans, strengthened Deng Changan application for the official opening of the museum of cultural relics determination.
"When I see Teresa Teng's things, I feel that she is still there and I miss her very much! Her songs, the aftermath of which lingers on and on." This is the **** same feeling of tourists wandering around the Heritage Museum.
"Oriental charm" incarnation
In the 1970s, Teresa Teng's beautiful songs like a whirlwind through Taiwan, Hong Kong and Japan, Southeast Asia and other places, but also blown into mainland China. Her relaxed, lively, warm and flowing Chinese folk ditties became a memory of that era.
"Practicing" the heavenly music
"The small town is full of stories, full of joy and happiness, if you come to the small town, you will get a lot of harvests ......" That was the first time I heard the song. On a calm morning in 1997, I was walking in a small town in the south of the Yangtze River, and I was y attracted by the singing coming from the radio speakers on the utility poles along the street. The song was warm, soft and extremely penetrating, floating in the morning smoke. The scenery of that day mingled with the song like a situational music video (music television).
Her voice has a special quality, and it is a voice that conveys the feeling that you are still willing to stop on the street for it after a number of years.......
This is the memory of Teresa Teng expressed by a "post-80s" fan in a recent blog.
In fact, although Teresa Teng showed great musical talent from a young age, she was not perfect. She originally had a small voice, which was rather soft and thin. This inborn factor is not easy to change. For this reason, her music teacher, Yao Hou-sheng, carefully instructed her from the very beginning, from vocal methods to singing habits. Mr. Yao was a famous music producer in Taiwan at the time, and was the first person in Taiwan to advocate and introduce the Western music education theory system.
At that time, Teresa Teng always sang songs with a fast tempo, so her sweet voice always gave people a "cute little girl" flavor. Moreover, in order to imitate the pronunciation of local ditties, Teresa Teng tried her best to pull up the end of her voice and developed the habit of raising the end of her words. This way of singing sounds more playful, but seems a bit childish. In response, Yao Hou-sheng instructed her to learn to sing in a slower tempo and told her, "You're not a little girl anymore, so you need to sing in a more emotional, adult-like way."
In this way, Teresa's singing in local ditties began to improve greatly under Yao Hou-sheng's tutelage. However, the flaw of a small voice still existed. Yao Hou-sheng then tried to get Teresa Teng to practice singing into the center of the microphone (the old-fashioned microphone was a large disc) in a way that would bring her clear tone into full play and allow the voice to penetrate deep into people's hearts.
Taiwan's famous old musician, Zuo Hongyuan, was very fond of Teresa Teng and had personally taught her to sing. At that time, Teresa Teng was very young and had never had a boyfriend. She wore short skirts and was cute like a ballerina. Zuo Hongyuan taught her to sing "Flying Colored Clouds" and she asked, "What is flying colored clouds?" "What do you mean don't leave you?" Zuo Hongyuan told her, "Don't leave you is when you like a boy and tell him not to leave you, it's as simple as that." Zuo Hongyuan told her for a long time, and I don't know whether she understood or not, but the song she eventually sang touched a lot of people. When she sang the movie's eponymous theme song, "Sea Rhythm," Teresa Teng was already acting mature. Adapted from Xu Zhimo's dialogic lyrics, "Sea Rhythm" is a difficult song. But Teresa actually sang it so profoundly and emotionally, showing rich imagination. Zuo Hongyuan said with feeling: "Like her kind of tone, technique, breath control, in Asia to now (refers to after the 1980s) I'm afraid that no one has exceeded ...... her singing voice can make the listener produce **** song, seeped into people's hearts, so that people's hearts have a **** through, deep and profound feelings ."
Many people may not know, in the "golden voice" behind, Teresa Teng has experienced much hardship and trials. In order to sing well, she insisted on hanging her voice every day, even when she had a cold or high fever, she never stopped. Her good friend He Li Li said that Teresa Teng practiced hard because her voice range was not broad enough, and even practiced until her throat bled.
In 1984, Teresa Teng, who was already famous around the world, traveled to England to learn about luck, vocalization and ****ing tones from her vocal teacher. Afterwards she said, "I needed to stop after each stage to work out some of my own problems and tap into unfulfilled potential." She worked hard during her time in England and would practice six or seven hours a day. "My teacher made me hang my voice for 30 minutes every day when I woke up. In the morning before the voice opens, practicing lifting and practicing to the highest level, the sound that comes out is very difficult to hear." Once, when she finished hanging her voice and the hotel waiter brought her tea, he wrote a line on the coaster, "We Brits hate it when someone yells in the morning!" It made Teresa laugh and cry for a moment.
"I see the smoke rising again, the twilight color shining on the earth. Want to ask the smoke, where are you going?" In Teresa Teng's voice around, there is never a lack of fans of her thoughts. A vocal research "Jun fans" (refers to Teresa Teng's fans) said: "Teresa Teng's voice has the characteristics of a Chinese woman, full of the charm of the Oriental woman, gentle but not lose the strong, beautiful and kind ...... her! Her voice is so distinctive that you can hardly hear any change of breath, and she can sing continuous high notes without a nasal sound, and her Chinese bites are very clear and her timbre is fine and soft, which is fascinating."
Some time ago, on a Japanese "Jun fan forum," people compared several Chinese female singers currently developing in Japan with Teresa Teng. A senior Japanese "Jun fans" pointed out in a pinch: "Ms. Teresa Deng's voice has humidity, moist feeling refreshing, unlike the singers relatively simple dry sharp or bright white voice."
Ethnic style renders Chinese love
Professor Yang Yanxing of the Tianjin Conservatory of Music told Globalist Magazine that the songs sung by Teresa Teng were widely circulated during that period because they themselves had a ****same characteristic: they were popular songs with an ethnic style. This is very consistent with the aesthetic habits of Chinese people. Teresa Teng's singing style is different from the old Shanghai singers of the dust and raw, unlike other singers in Taiwan at the time of the foreign style and raw, but aptly interpreted these songs into the most "Chinese style" works.
The right amount of holding, and Teresa Teng's education from childhood is not unrelated. As a child, Teresa often listened to her father humming Peking Opera. Her father often sang a few lines, and Teresa also mimicked them from time to time with gusto. Her mother was also fond of theater, often listening to local operas in the Huangmei tune and occasionally humming some ditties, and she also enjoyed watching opera movies. Deng Lijun benefited greatly from her influence.
In 1967, Teresa Teng released her first album, "Feng Yang Flower Drums," in the style of a folk tune. Since then, Teresa Teng has been highly regarded for her singing of folk ditties. The 14-year-old girl's sweet singing voice and pure and simple emotions attracted a large number of listeners and left a deep impression on people.
Since then, "Chinese and ethnic" songs have been the center of Teresa Teng's singing career. Many of her songs have become classics, such as "Tales of a Small Town". As her comprehension grew, she began to add more "Chinese elements" to her music.
The 1983 album "Faint Feelings" is considered by many to be the best album of Teresa Teng's singing career, as well as a skillful combination of classical Chinese literature and modern music. According to Tse Wang-chung, the Hong Kong entrepreneur who came up with the idea for the album, "I met Teresa Teng at a banquet. I told her about the idea that had been brewing and maturing for a long time, and its reaction was quite intense. ...... At that time, we were very close to each other in our views, which were how to express the classical poems that had been passed down in our country for thousands of years in modern music, how to arouse the ****ing feelings of the listeners, and how to preserve the Chinese culture that was gradually being forgotten... ... "In order to do a good job of this album, Teresa Teng looked for the most avant-garde and authoritative people in mainland China and Hong Kong at that time for the album score, and the lyrics of the 12 songs in the album are also based on ancient Chinese poems composed from, after that, people heard like the "Wish People Lasted Long", such as the "historical The song is a "classic" that still endures to this day.
Professor Yang Yanxing told reporters that Teresa Teng's ability to create the traditional and popular works of "Faint Feeling" is due to her years of hard work in the popular music world, and her deep understanding of Chinese lyrics and classical culture. Teresa Teng's songs have allowed Chinese around the world to feel the long history of tenderness of the Chinese nation, and have made the world realize that recreating the essence of traditional art does not have to be confined to the confines of an art song.
After this album, Teresa's main focus was put on organizing concerts by her company, and there were fewer and fewer compositions incorporating traditional Chinese elements. Later, Teresa had also wanted to complete a sequel to "Faint and Spectral Love". She spent five years composing ancient poems and songs, but due to the singing environment and her personal state of mind, as well as her health and other reasons, she eventually failed to realize her wish. This unfinished sequel album has also become a permanent regret in the hearts of her fans.
"The sad thing is that after this, no one else in the Chinese music industry was capable and high enough to create such a work. This is probably why people miss Teresa Teng today." Prof. Yang Yanxing said.
"The girl next door" is singing
In the 1990s, Teresa Teng's "One Billion Applause" concert VCDs (video compact discs) became popular in mainland China. In the eyes of mainlanders at the time, Teresa Teng on stage was a representative of temperament, style and foreign flavor. In fact, Teresa Teng's looks were not very "foreign", but rather had a "nostalgic" Chinese character. She has a sweet smile, and her hands and feet are permeated with the elegance and gentleness of a classical Chinese woman. Her stage image and her voice remain in people's hearts.
As early as 1976, Teresa Teng, who had a large number of fans, changed the form of her performances in the past and made her solo concerts the center of her acting form. Over the next two years, she kept organizing concerts in Hong Kong and Japan.
In 1978, Teresa held a solo concert at the Yakult Hall in Tokyo. Tickets were sold out many days before the concert began. On the day of the concert, countless fans from Japan and other countries gathered in the hall of the hall early. As the lights on the stage flickered on and off, Teresa Teng appeared in a pink performance gown. With her light steps and bright eyes, thunderous applause and wild cheers erupted from the stage before she even opened her mouth.......
The main reason Teresa's concerts are so popular is because of her flawless stage presence. Li Wan, a famous music critic, told Global People magazine that Teresa Tang's singing will give people a kind of "silent" feeling, permeated with the warmth of the girl next door. On stage, she always maintains good communication and interaction with the audience, and the concert seems to be a family gathering. She sang in front of her fans and felt like she was meeting with family and friends. Those who came to the concert were also longtime fans of Teresa Teng and knew her music and person very well. With some singers now in concert in order to conquer the audience and try their best to perform differently, Teresa Teng's concert style, is a kind of communication with the audience, the scene is like with the audience "two love" communication. Although she dresses sweet, "aura" is very strong, confident, natural and calm.
However, Teresa also had some lively moments on stage. She sometimes uses some tricks, such as when she sings excitedly, she will pull the microphone far away, and then jerk it back, or directly throw the microphone from the right hand to the left hand, do some handsome action. Interestingly, Teresa also had her moments of missing the mark. In a concert held in Indonesia, Teresa Teng used the trick of "pulling and throwing the microphone", but due to the excitement of singing, the microphone actually fell to the ground. At that time, the stage design was especially popular for spraying dry ice, Teresa had to bend down and scramble to find the microphone in the dry ice mist. The audience thought it was a small incident deliberately arranged by Teresa Teng, and applauded with excitement.
Tang's stage charisma is not only because of her looks and her singing voice, but also because of the natural flow of her words. Music critic Li Wan said, "Even if you don't deliberately listen to Teresa Teng's songs, it's still her songs that stay in your mind when you mention Teresa Teng because her biting words are quite clear."
Teng traveled all over the world and could only squeeze language learning into her busy performance schedule. But it was under these circumstances and conditions that Teresa still mastered several foreign languages and Chinese dialects. She sang songs and published albums in Japanese, English, Indonesian, as well as Chinese Cantonese, Minnan, Shandong and Shanghainese. Not only that, she also sings a large number of folk songs, local operas and musicals from various regions.
A Japanese music critic once commented, "After Teresa Teng's death, it has been difficult to find an Asian superstar like her. This is because Teresa Teng spent a lot of time learning Cantonese, Japanese and English to break into the market in order to gain acceptance from local audiences, but there are no longer any singers who work this hard."
Perhaps because of the twists and turns and ups and downs of her own experience, what touches people most about Teresa's singing is the slight sadness that comes out of her voice, which reaches right into the depths of people's hearts. The famous musician James Wong once commented: "Teresa Teng's songs can comfort the human soul, sometimes overseas, when tired of work, very eager to hear Teresa Teng's singing, her singing has a kind of thing that can soothe our emotions, an indescribable Chinese flavor ...... "
Rock also pays tribute to her
It's not just Teresa Teng's songs that have taken the world by storm, and with them all the talk and imagery associated with her.
Li Wan once recalled how he felt when he first started listening to Teresa Teng's songs: "When I first 'met' Teresa Teng, it was a feeling of total terror. At that time, Taiwan was an enemy zone, Taiwan's radio station was an enemy station, eavesdropping on an enemy station was a criminal act. Even if you happen to bump into it when tuning in, there is a strong sense of crime, and the sound in the feeling all of a sudden became huge, like a thunderbolt......." At the end of the 1970s and the beginning of the 1980s, the channels for obtaining Teresa Teng's songs were still extremely scarce. Often, people just happen to hear a few lines of Teresa Teng's songs at the end of street corners and alleys. The music came from young people who were "not doing their jobs" - they wore bell-bottom pants, polished leather shoes, and carried "Sanyo" double-card recorders on their motorcycles. Teresa Teng's voice drifted out of the recorder, and the passers-by who could occasionally hear a few lines of the lyrics blushed and felt "embarrassed".
However, this is the kind of song that makes people feel "ashamed to speak", but it has enlightened mainland pop music, and inspired complex reactions in the public. "It was a mixture of shock and revulsion. At that time, most people couldn't accept Teresa Teng and thought she was a bit of a 'hooligan', while those who accepted and sang this kind of music were regarded as hooligan Ah Fei." Li Wan told Global People magazine reporter, although extremely controversial, but precisely Teresa Teng's songs, so that the public just out of the "Cultural Revolution", and slowly find the emotions that have been neglected over the years. People began to realize that, in addition to the attributes of "national citizens", people can also be husbands, wives, children, lovers and other roles. People's original emotions, personalities, diversity and a series of forgotten elements also began to awaken in Teresa Teng's songs.
Pure, friendly, energetic, and upwardly mobile without losing her fashionable and noble style made Teresa Teng's image in the eyes of the public tend to be perfect. The sweet singing voice and perfect public image made Teresa Teng the idol of many mainland youth. In many young people's notebooks, bedheads, and money clips, photos of Teresa Teng began to appear, and her tapes were even blurred in tone due to being ripped over and over again. After many years, there are still many people born in the 1960s and 1970s who confess that the Teresa Teng in their hearts is no longer a singer, and that period of time is not only a period of years accompanied by songs; for them, "Teresa Teng" is a lingering complex, and some even take Teresa Teng as a criterion for choosing a husband or a daughter, or name their daughters after her. The company's website has been updated with the latest information about Teresa Teng's work, including the name of her daughter.
In the late 1980s, Teresa Teng's tapes were officially introduced to the mainland. It was from this time that people really took a fresh look at Teresa Teng from a musical perspective. There has always been a view in the mainland music industry that Chinese pop music is thoroughly imported, yet Teresa Teng's music is a counterfactual. Underneath the popular form, Teresa Teng has inherited too many traditional and classical elements of China. She could not restore the classics, but she skillfully interpreted the essence of them. Decades have passed, and Chinese pop music has grown from nothing to something, and from something to something. In this process, Teresa Teng has always formed her own school, which is hard to surpass. However, her unique "soft power" began to be inherited. It can be said that Li Guyi's "Love in the Countryside" and Su Xiaoming's "Night in the Military Harbor" all come from this style. Different styles, different times of musicians, can be found in Teresa Teng's songs **** Ming, and even Tang Dynasty, Black Panther, Zheng Jun and a number of mainland rock bands and artists, have confessed Teresa Teng's influence on them. When Teresa Teng passed away, mainland musicians paid tribute to her with an album called Farewell Rock. In the album, almost all of the mainland's most popular rock stars at the time re-covered her songs as a tribute to the inspirer.
Perfection off the stage
To her family and neighbors and friends, there wasn't much difference between Teresa Teng on and off the stage. Humble and filial, positive and progressive, compassionate and grateful, and unattached to power and wealth ...... this is the Teresa Teng of people's eyes. Many analysts believe that these qualities of hers contrast sharply with the many rights and wrongs of today's entertainment industry - and that she is therefore still missed 15 years after her death.
Dutiful daughter
As a child, Teresa Teng's family of seven struggled to make ends meet, and at the age of six, Teresa Teng, who was already "a very talented and appealing performer," began to sell songs on the streets with her mother as her companion to earn money to buy groceries for the family. When she was nine years old, she began to follow her father's original comrades to perform all over Taiwan. Although she could only earn a meager NT$5 or NT$10 per performance, it was a "substantial" income for the poor Deng family.
Once in a while, the owner of an opera house in Taipei heard Teresa Teng's singing voice and thought it was very good, so he hoped that she could make a guest appearance at the opera house after school. At that time, Teresa Teng's parents were very much against it, worrying that she would be bullied. However, Teresa Teng convinced her parents. Soon after, she became the "queen of dolls" in the concert hall because of her outstanding performance, and her fame spread more and more, even some concert halls in southern Taiwan also invited her to perform.
Because of her frequent performances, Teresa had less and less time to attend school, and her grades were in decline. 1967, the leaders of the Jinling Girls' High School where she was studying gave her an "ultimatum", asking her to choose one of two options: either to give up her singing and focus on her studies, or to take a break from her studies. Out of consideration for her family and her love for singing, Teresa Teng decided to take a break from her studies. According to her teacher's recollection, some nightclubs were willing to sign a contract with Teresa Teng, inviting her to be a full-time singer, but the school life was also difficult for Teresa Teng to leave. In the end, family factors were prioritized. The teacher recalled: "I asked her parents what they thought. What was her plan? She said she needed the job because of the family's financial situation, and that if she took a break from school, she would be able to sing without worrying. It was clear that she was sacrificing herself to improve her troubled family's situation, and the little kid had been working really hard!"