Teng's perfect pitch and her amiable demeanor won the hearts of judges in various singing competitions. This family friend became Teng's first voice teacher and was instrumental in fostering a passion for music in the girl. According to her brother, their father's friend, an erhu (Chinese two-stringed violin) player, often visited and complimented Teresa's clear, soft, yet powerful voice. Teng's talent for music was discovered at age three. The only daughter in the family, with three older brothers and a younger brother, she was educated at Luzhou Elementary School in Luzhou District, Taipei County and then Ginling Girls High School ( 私立金陵女中) in Sanchong Township, Taipei County, Taiwan. Her father was a soldier in the Republic of China Armed Forces from Daming, Hebei, and her mother was from Dongping, Shandong. Teng was born to a poor family in Baozhong Township, Yunlin County, Taiwan on 29 January 1953, to Waishengren parents. Teng performs at her first musical performance at the age of 7 (1960). She remains one of the representatives of the Chinese-speaking communities and cultures worldwide. In 2010, on the eve of the celebration of "March 8th, International Women's Day", Teng was named ''the most influential woman in modern China" by Chinese-language newspapers and radio stations in and outside China.
In 1986, Time magazine named her one of the seven greatest female singers in the world. Since her departure, over 3 million of her records are said to have been sold in Japan, according to Nippon. On May 8, 1995, Teng died from a severe respiratory attack while on vacation in Thailand at the age of 42. Īccording to a report published by Billboard in May 1995, Teng released 25 albums during the last 26 years of her career, selling over 22 million copies worldwide, with 10 million units in Japan alone since 1983, going by her original sales. In 2007, she was inducted into the "Popular Music Hall of Fame" at the Koga Masao Music Museum in Japan, making her the only non-Japanese national to do so. To date, her songs have been covered by hundreds of artists all over the world. In addition to speaking the most of the languages she sung in, she also spoke French and Thai. She recorded more than 1,500 songs throughout her career, starting when she was 14 years old, not only in Mandarin Chinese but also in Hokkien, Cantonese, Japanese, Indonesian, English, and Italian. Throughout her years, Teng rendered hits such as " When Will You Return?", " As Sweet as Honey", " Forget Him", " Giving Yourself to the Flow of Time," and " The Moon Represents My Heart". She was nicknamed “the patriotic entertainer” and a “soldier's sweetheart."
In Taiwan, she was famous for entertaining the armed forces and singing patriotic songs that appealed to the natives of the island. Besides, Teng was also instrumental in bridging the cultural gap across Chinese-speaking nations, and the first artist to connect Japan to much of East and Southeast Asia by singing Japanese pop songs, some of which were later covered in Mandarin. She is often hailed as Asia's first pop superstar and by some as the pioneer of contemporary Chinese pop music-a major force in the development of the Chinese music industry by incorporating western and eastern styles into her music, replacing the most revolutionary songs then prevalent in mainland China and laying the foundation for modern Chinese popular music. Her profound influence on Asian popular music and the entire Chinese society in the latter half of the 20th century and afterwards, propelled her to become one of the most successful and influential Asian artists in history. With a career spanning almost 30 years, Teng established herself as a dominant and influential force in Asia throughout most of her career, including East Asia, Southeast Asia, and to some extent, South Asia during the early and mid-80s. Dubbed as " Asia's eternal queen of pop", Teng became a cultural icon for her contributions to Mandopop, giving birth to the phrase, "Wherever there are Chinese people, there is the music of Teresa Teng". Teng Li-Chun ( traditional Chinese: 鄧麗君 simplified Chinese: 邓丽君 pinyin: Dèng Lìjūn Jyutping: Dang6 Lai6-gwan1 29 January 1953 – ), commonly known as Teresa Teng, was a Taiwanese singer, actress, musician and philanthropist.
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