To the delight of millions of fans of the late Teresa Teng, the track titled “Love Songs Are Best in the Foggy Night” will appear on an album to be released June 25. Photo by Van3ssa_/Pixabay
Several years ago, an employee at Universal Music came across a cassette tape in a Tokyo warehouse while sorting through archival materials.
On it was a recording by the late Taiwanese pop star Teresa Teng that had never been released. The pop ballad, likely recorded in the mid-1980s while Teng was living and performing in Japan, was a collaboration between composer Takashi Miki and lyricist Toyohisa Araki.
Now, to the delight of her millions of fans, the track titled "Love Songs Are Best in the Foggy Night" will appear on an album to be released June 25.
Teng died 30 years ago. Most Americans know little about her life and her body of work. Yet, the ballads of Teng, who could sing in Mandarin, Cantonese, Japanese and Indonesian, continue to echo through karaoke rooms, on Spotify playlists, at tribute concerts and at family gatherings across Asia and beyond.
