Teresa Teng: the idol of the idols
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A tourist visits the Teresa Teng Museum in Kaohsiung, southeast China's Taiwan, May 5, 2015. Superstar Teng had enjoyed popularity in east Asia for more than three decades. After selling millions of records, the pop singer retired in France in the early 1990s and died in 1995. [Photo: Xinhua/Cai Yang] |
The digitized Teng dressed in her characteristic white Chinese gown, sang her hit single, "What You Have to Say", along with two of Jay Chou's songs, "Red Tavern" and "Thousand Miles Away", which were produced after her death. Chou sang along in duet.
Jay Chou expressed his wish by typing on the screen at the concert: "I once imagined that if I could travel back in time to 30 years ago and sing a song with her, it would be great an honor."
Jay Chou is not the first singer to cooperate with the late diva via modern technolgy. Back in 2009, Fei Yuqing, a well-known singer and host from Taiwan, sang her song in a duet at the Moon Festival gala in Taipei.
Fei Yuqing once sang high praise for Teng using the lyrics in her song On the Other Side of the Water. "Deep green grass, endless white fog, a beautiful lady is on the other side of the water. Green grass thinning out, white fog getting blurry, a beautiful lady lives by the waterside."
"I am willing to go against the current, cuddling next to her. I am willing to go downstream to pursue her direction, as if vaguely seeing her stand in the middle of the water."
In a 2010 survey conducted by the Teresa Teng Foundation to determine Teng's most popular hits, "I Only Care about You" received the second-most votes. And Teresa herself admitted that out of her over 300 songs, it's her favorite because the song was written by her teacher who had passed away before her album was released.
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