Teresa Teng

Teresa Teng, born Teng Li-Chun, was a Taiwanese singer, television personality, musician and philanthropist who lived from 29 January 1953 to 8 May 1995. Widely regarded as one of the most culturally significant figures in the Chinese speaking world of the twentieth century, she is credited as the Far East's first pop superstar and a pioneer of modern Chinese pop music, blending Western and Eastern styles and helping lay the foundation for the genre. Over a career spanning almost thirty years she recorded more than 1,700 songs in Mandarin as well as in Hokkien, Cantonese, Shanghainese, Japanese, Indonesian, English and Italian, and sold more than 48 million albums outside mainland China alone.