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Vienna Teng
Musician
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Style: Singer-Songwriter
Joined: August 29, 2006
Last Sign In: 1 month ago
Videos Watched: 194
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Channel Views: 44,790
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.
On April 7, Zoë/Rounder Records will release Inland Territory, the new album by songwriter, singer and pianist Vienna Teng. Inland Territory is a tour de force musically and lyrically, a complex and deeply thoughtful work from an artist cut loose from limitations. Recorded over five months and in four cities, with instrumentation ranging from foot stomps to vintage keyboards to full string orchestra, it's without question her most ambitious work yet.

Now thirty, Vienna has released three critically acclaimed albums, landing her on three Billboard charts and in Amazon.coms 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 and performing on CBS Saturday Early Shows Second Cup Café and The Late Show with David Letterman, who declared that hed 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 conceivedaccomplished 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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Playlists
Green Caravan Tour: Cross-Country Move
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Vienna moves across the country from San Francisco to Brooklyn, with her friend Eric Cheng to help out. Videos shot by Eric and Vienna, edited and posted by Eric.
http://echeng.com/journal/2007/03/27/driving-across-america-with-vienna-teng/
Vienna Teng says hi to YouTube viewers
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Vienna Teng says hi to everyone watching VTTV. Recorded at the Independent in San ...
no rating 2 years ago 7,901 views viennateng no rating
Vienna Teng - In Another Life (Live September 30, 2008)
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Vienna Teng and Alex Wong perform "In Another Life" from the new album, _Inland Te...
5 months ago 2,728 views viennateng
Glen Phillips and Vienna Teng - Last Sunset and Maya (Live February 11, 2007)
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Glen Phillips and Vienna Teng perform "Last Sunset" and "Maya" at Chop Suey in S...
5 months ago 807 views viennateng
Vienna Teng - Kansas (Live January 12, 2008)
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Vienna Teng performs "Kansas" at the Bazaar Cafe in San Francisco, CA on January 1...
5 months ago 2,092 views viennateng
Vienna Teng - Ru Guo (If) (Live Berkeley CA 5-18-2006)
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Vienna Teng performs "Ru Guo (If)" at Shattuck Down Low, in Berkeley, CA.
2 years ago 21,405 views viennateng
Vienna Teng - Antebellum (Live September 30, 2008)
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Vienna Teng and Alex Wong perform "Antebellum" from the new album, _Inland Territo...
5 months ago 3,870 views viennateng
Vienna Teng - Love Turns 40 (Live at World Cafe Live DVD)
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Vienna Teng performs "Love Turns 40" in Philadelphia, PA. Recorded January 21, 200...
no rating 1 year ago 6,327 views viennateng no rating
Vienna Teng - Idioteque (Radiohead cover, Live December 21, 2007)
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Vienna Teng, Dina Maccabee, Jessica Ivry, and Alex Wong cover "Idioteque" by Radio...
5 months ago 2,063 views viennateng
Vienna Teng - My Medea (Live Sunnyvale CA 03-23-2003)
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Vienna Teng performs "My Medea" live from the Sunnyvale Public Library.
2 years ago 20,586 views viennateng
Vienna Inland Territory EPK
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Vienna Teng talks about the making of her newest album "Inland Territory" Availabl...
4 months ago 917 views roundervideo
Vienna Teng "Inland Territory" EPK 2009
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Vienna Teng "Inland Territory" EPK 2009
5 months ago 5,342 views JazzClassics
Vienna Teng "Gravity"
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[TRANSLATED] Vienna Teng "Gravity"
[TRANSLATED] Vienna Teng "Gravity"
Music Video for Vienna Teng "Gravity"
5 months ago 46,443 views nshields
Vienna Teng recording session in New York for album 4
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A short video vignette shot during a studio recording session with Vienna Teng in ...
1 year ago 768 views echeng
11:11 EPISODE 1
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The first installment of Alex's new tour blog, "11:11". We're still getting the h...
3 months ago 560 views highceilings
1111 EPISODE 2
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Halle, Bremen, the perils of cushy hotels and downloading LOST from the road, and ...
3 months ago 351 views highceilings
Vienna Teng Live - "Fire and Rain"
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Vienna Teng covers James Taylor's Fire and Rain at the Independent in San Francisc...
2 years ago 36,964 views Klaorman
Waking Hour
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[TRANSLATED] Waking Hour
I DID NOT MAKE THIS, you can download it at http://www.animemusicvideos.org/member...
3 years ago 41,662 views Queball
Vienna Teng: Sun Studio Sessions - 'City Hall'
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http://livefromsunstudio.blogspot.com Vienna Teng performs at the legendary Sun...
1 year ago 5,499 views SunStudioSessions
Channel Comments (85)
666apostata666 (1 week ago)
hi
mewichigo03 (1 month ago)
You have such a beautiful voice, and I love the way you play the piano! As long as you still love it, don't ever stop singing. :)
peekanmoo (1 month ago)
oh my gosh!!! i can't believe it!
its seemed like a year ago that i saw your concert at the Pyramid cafe in PA
but it was really about 4 and you signed my CD!!! I LOVE YOU and i still listen to your music!!!
God bless
SunStudioSessions (1 month ago)
Keep up the great work!
harrysimply (1 month ago)
truly speakin ur adorable within...i heard ur one or 2 songs it was gr8....hav u EVER HEARD 'YANNI' VERY GR8 PIANIST..u play damm gud...very gud honestly ..i can understand the way u play, ur simly adorable ...superb...god bless...
harrysimply (1 month ago)
hiii this is harry frm india....y dnt u play some stuff on piano,it will be nice...like elton john u can play some RIFFS or chord progression that will be nice as u can play ...thanks , hope ull reply me Gid bless....
iluvpapillions (2 months ago)
<3 ur songs. i hav lik tons of ur song :)
OrsinoDuke (2 months ago)
You are very talented. I admire your music. Really hope can see you perform in Houston
deliciousnatalicious (2 months ago)
Just got back from your Santa Cruz show and wanted to tell you that it was nothing short of awesome. :)
biukucanoe (3 months ago)
Just read Seattle Times Triple door announcement. Stanford U software engineer dropout, wow. My Asian family sent 7 kids to MIT and Stanford with symphony talent, but not one quit to be a professional musician ... yet...
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