Teresa Teng

essential information

Early experience

In June 1953, Teresa Teng moved with her family to chishang Township, Taitung County. The next year, she moved to juncun, Pingtung County. In 1959, Teresa Teng moved with her family to Luzhou City, Taipei County. She studied at Luzhou elementary school in Luzhou City, Taipei County. In 1961, Teresa Teng received music guidance from Li Chengqing, an erhu player of jiusankang band.

In 1962, Teresa Teng performed with jiusankang band. In 1963, Teresa Teng took part in the "China Radio" Huangmei tune singing competition. She won the championship by defeating many senior contestants with "visiting Britain". In 1964, Teresa Teng won the first prize in the county Mandarin reading contest on behalf of the school. In 1965, Teresa Teng attended Taiwan's Jinling Women's middle school.

In 1966, Teresa Teng was interviewed by the program "night visit of art and culture" of Taiwan television and sang songs, meeting the audience for the first time; she took part in the singing training class of Zhengsheng company in her spare time and finished first; she took part in the singing competition of Golden Horse Award record company and won the championship with "Caihongling". In 1967, Teresa Teng took part in the "Star Club" program of Taiwan television and performed in the TV program for the first time.

Acting experience

Living record

The era of Taiwan cosmic records

In 1967, Teresa Teng dropped out of Jinling girls' middle school and joined the Taiwan cosmos record company. In September, Teresa Teng released her first record, Teresa Teng's song Fengyang flower drum, officially starting her professional singing career.

In April 1968, Teresa Teng took part in the "Star Club" program of Taiwan television and performed in Taipei's "night Paris" and "qichongtian" music venues, setting a record for several months in a row. She released several records at an average rate of two records every three months.

In 1969, Teresa Teng appeared in the music themed film "thank you, general manager", which was funded by Taiwan cosmos record company. She sang the theme song for Taiwan's first series "Jingjing" and was invited to host the first band program "star of the day" in Taiwan's TV history.

In January 1970, Teresa Teng was selected as "Queen of charity" by white flower oil company and Hong Kong Overseas Chinese daily; in July, Teresa Teng and the Kaisheng singing group went to Hong Kong to sing for a month; in October, Teresa Teng and Zhang Chong cooperated to shoot their second music themed film "miss fan".

Taiwan Lifeng records / Hong Kong Lefeng records period

From February 1971 to August 1972, Teresa Teng performed in Southeast Asia for a year and a half. The concert was held in Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam and other places. She signed a contract with Lifeng records.

In February 1972, Teresa Teng was elected as the "Queen of the white flower oil bazaar" for the second time at the Hong Kong Trade Fair. In May, Teresa Teng visited more than 20 record companies and newspapers in Southeast Asia. In July, she starred in the stage play the romance of the west chamber. In December, she was elected as one of the "top 10 most popular singers in Hong Kong".

In January 1973, Teresa Teng went to the United States to study English, and sang in Hong Kong opera house, "Han Palace" and "Pearl City"; in July, Teresa Teng starred in the stage play "Tang Bohu points autumn fragrance"; in September, Teresa Teng was elected as "the top ten most popular singers in Hong Kong" for the second time; in November, Teresa Teng signed a contract with Japanese Watanabe agency and cooperated with Japanese Polaroid record company to release records.

Polaroid records of Japan / Polaroid records of Hong Kong

In 1974, Teresa Teng officially went to Japan for development; on March 1, she released her first Japanese single "tonight or tomorrow" in Polaroid record company; in April, she went to work in Kinmen for the first time; in Southeast Asia, she appeared in three stage plays, including "female reporter"; in October, she broke Polaroid record company's promise with her second single "airport" In the same month, Teresa Teng released her third single "snow make up" in Japan. In November, Teresa Teng stood out from more than 700 newcomers in the Japanese music world with her song "airport", and won the "Japanese Music Award for newcomers" in 1974. At the same time, she won the "Shinjuku Music Award for copper" and "Ginza Music Award for hot performances" ”。

In 1975, Teresa Teng joined Hong Kong baolijin record company and released the first episode of the series of "island love songs" in May! My love; in August, Teresa Teng recorded Hong Kong's first artist special TV program "Teresa Teng TV special"; in September, she held a tour in Malaysia; in October, she won "Shinjuku music festival for new people", "Tokyo TV daily top 10 singers" and "Dongjing music festival for Silver Jubilee".

In March 1976, she held a solo concert on the Lee stage in Hong Kong; in July, she held a solo concert in Shinjuku, Japan; in November, she led the star opera company on a tour to Malaysia.

In April 1977, Teresa Teng held a solo concert in Tokyo's Xinqiao Civic Hall; in June, Teresa Teng returned to Taiwan to record Taiwan's first special program Teresa Teng, which won the championship of the Tokyo singing contest with her performance "Teresa Teng's special", and "Teresa Teng's special" won Japan's "TV show Award"; in July, she held another solo concert in Hong Kong He became the winner of Hong Kong's first "Gold Record Award" at the first gold record award ceremony in Hong Kong with "island love song II - think of you tonight"; he held a solo concert in Tokyo's Xinqiao; he released 20 records in Japan.

In February 1978, Teresa Teng toured in Malaysia, Singapore and other places; at the end of July, she held a solo concert in Kawasaki industrial culture hall, Japan, and won the "sending charcoal in the snow" award of Taiwan police radio station; in September, at the invitation of Taiwan television, Teresa Teng guest starred in the TV series "Tianya often remembering the old times"; three records also won the third "golden Record Award" of Hong Kong "Love in a small village" was selected as the first "top ten Chinese Golden Melody" in Hong Kong, and "night scene in Tokyo" was awarded "zhengwan Zhangzhong" in Japan.

In February 1979, Teresa Teng left the Japanese music world because of the "fake passport" incident and went to the University of Southern California to study Japanese, English, biology and mathematics. In April, Teresa Teng held her own concerts in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Vancouver, Toronto and other North American cities. In August, Teresa Teng's Malaysian fan association was established. Her three records also won the Hong Kong platinum Record Award ”Two records won the gold record award.

In March 1980, Teresa Teng won the "Best Female Singer Award" of Taiwan TV Golden Bell Award, becoming the first singer to win the award; in May, she was invited to perform at Lincoln Center in New York, USA, becoming the first Chinese singer to perform here, and was awarded the "Golden Apple" Brooch by the mayor of New York; in July, she toured Los Angeles, San Francisco and other places; in October, she held a concert at the National Father Memorial Hall In November, he was invited to sing at the Golden Horse Awards ceremony of Taiwan film; in December, he released the Cantonese album "irresistible", winning the "platinum Record Award"; at the end of December, he held a tour concert in Southeast Asia .

In January 1981, Teresa Teng was awarded the "patriotic artist" award by the Taiwan Information Bureau; she recorded 80 Indonesian songs in Indonesia; she won the "most popular female singer award" and "Best Female Singer Award" of the fifth Taiwan Television golden image award, becoming the first artist to receive double honors; in March, Teresa Teng performed in "disco Jiao" in Taipei, "Lianmei" in Taichung, and "happy meeting" in Kaohsiung In April, Teresa Teng toured Southeast Asia and held her fifth solo concert on the Hong Kong Lee stage, setting a record for nine Chinese concerts in seven days. In May, Teresa Teng was invited to co host the Golden Bell award ceremony of Taiwan TV for the first time with Li jizhun. In August, she attended the "Hong Kong fifth golden Record Award Ceremony" in Hong Kong, where five albums won the "white record" award at the same time "Golden Record Award", breaking all previous platinum records in Hong Kong.

In January 1982, Teresa Teng held five solo concerts at the Queen Elizabeth Stadium in Hong Kong. As the first Chinese female singer to hold a concert here, she invested 10 million Hong Kong dollars in the concert, and the proceeds from the first concert were used for charity donation. In February, Teresa Teng went to Malaysia to hold her solo concert. In May, Teresa Teng began to work on the planning of the classical poetry album light and tender feelings; At the same time, she released the double album of "Teresa Teng's concert", which became a double platinum album after its release, and three other big albums won the "Gold Record Award"; in October, Teresa Teng was invited to shoot "Teresa Teng's special" on Hong Kong TVB.

In February 1983, Teresa Teng's album light love was officially released, which is the first Chinese pop music album composed with ancient poetry. At the end of February, Teresa Teng was invited to hold a solo concert at Caesar Palace in Las Vegas, becoming the first Oriental female singer to sign a contract to perform here. In March, Teresa Teng cooperated with emperor Zhang to host the Golden Bell award ceremony of Taiwan TV again In March, Hong Kong's baolijin announced that Teresa Teng had sold 5 million records in Hong Kong's baolijin record company since 1975, setting a record for Chinese singers. Her second Cantonese album "walking the road of life" was her 109th album (excluding Japanese album) in Hong Kong and Taiwan, and became a platinum record after it came into the market. On December 29, Teresa Teng held the Hong Kong Red Music Festival The 15th anniversary concert tour, the first stop of Hom stadium, has become the first Chinese singer to tour in many places and the first one in Hong Kong

Chinese PinYin : Deng Li Jun1