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Name:
Vienna Teng
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55,272
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Style:
Singer-Songwriter
Joined:
August 29, 2006
Last Sign In:
3 weeks ago
Subscribers:
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This is Vienna Teng's official YouTube channel, VTTV. Videos by Erik Hartley, unless otherwise noted. Maintained by Michele Santiago. For video questions and comments, please contact Michele through here, or at viennateng.com. To contact Vienna, please use her email address at viennateng.com.
About Me:
Now thirty, the songwriter, singer and pianist has released three critically acclaimed albums, landing her on three Billboard charts and in Amazon.com's top ten. She regularly sells out theaters across the U.S. and Europe, fans travel hundreds of miles to catch a single show, and her opening sets for the likes of India.Arie, Joan Baez and Madeleine Peyroux end in standing ovations. Mere months after quitting her job as a software engineer in 2002, she was being interviewed on NPR, performing on CBS Saturday Early Shows "Second Cup Café" and The Late Show with David Letterman, who declared that he'd listened to her entire debut album and that there was "not a dud" on it. Her brand of sophisticated, piano-driven pop has been gathering accolades ever since: "seductive and transcendent" (Amazon.com), "gorgeously conceived...accomplished yet understated" (Paste), "singular among her peers" (Variety).
Record Label:
Rounder Records
Label Type:
Independent
Influences:
My parents' record collection: Simon & Garfunkel, James Taylor, Mozart and Beethoven, 60s Mandarin pop. That's what I started with and it'll never leave me. Later on, pianist-songwriters: Elton John, Billy Joel, Tori Amos. These days I'm influenced by whoever intimidates me. I hear them, I'm astounded by them, I think daily about quitting music because I'll never be able to do it as well as they do. Then I try to steal from them without imitating. A tricky thing.
Sounds Like:
Oh man, I don't know. I've taken to saying "chamber folk" or "singer-songwriter" to some people. "Somewhere between folk and pop, with a bit of classical and jazz," if they look confused after that. It's frustrating that I have no succinct phrase to offer; at the same time, I think it also means I'm doing something right.
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u are beautiful!
Take a look at the career of Joanna Wang 王若琳. She was from LA, dropped out from High School, entered the Chinese market with an album with 2 discs, one English disc and another disc with 5 Chinese songs. She gained fame overnight. IMO, she cannot compare to your talent by a long mile. With Internet, there is really no boundary. Sing a few Mandarin songs and you suddenly add a billion fans.
Greetings from Vienna, Austria!