![]() ![]() ![]() "It was a tradition that was taken with the poetry of words and with the idea that lyrics should say something." "It was sophisticated stuff-'You read your Emily Dickinson and I, my Robert Frost,'-that's not simple English," Teng recalled to Joel Selvin of the San Francisco Chronicle. She got some early exposure to the art of the singer-songwriter when her parents started listening to records by Carole King, James Taylor, and Simon & Garfunkel in order to improve their English skills. Teng's parents, natives of Taiwan, came to California to work in the San Francisco Bay Area's technology industry. Vienna Teng is her stage name, taken at age 12 to honor the Austrian city that was home to classical composers Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, and Brahms her birth name was Cynthia Shih. Teng was born in 1978 in San Jose, California. She has released two albums on the Seattle-based Virt label and has appeared on CNN, The Late Show with David Letterman, and National Public Radio's Weekend Edition. After her graduation from Stanford University, she caught the public's attention with her graceful, intricately accompanied original songs. Teng studied classical piano from age five until she finished high school. California-born singer-songwriter-pianist Vienna Teng has drawn numerous comparisons from journalists attempting to characterize her style-comparisons not only to other female singer-songwriters like Sarah McLachlan and Tori Amos, but also to classical composer Fréderic Chopin. ![]()
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