{"id":758,"date":"2009-10-27T10:05:16","date_gmt":"2009-10-27T18:05:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/?p=758"},"modified":"2009-10-25T10:06:43","modified_gmt":"2009-10-25T18:06:43","slug":"vienna-teng-%e5%8f%b2%e9%80%b8%e6%ac%a3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/2009\/10\/vienna-teng-%e5%8f%b2%e9%80%b8%e6%ac%a3\/","title":{"rendered":"Vienna Teng \u00e5\u008f\u00b2\u00e9\u20ac\u00b8\u00e6\u00ac\u00a3"},"content":{"rendered":"<table cellspacing=\"10\">\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td>\n<img width=\"200\" src=\"http:\/\/viennateng.com\/photos\/\/1-Inland%20Territory\/full\/IMG_5721.jpg\">\n<\/td>\n<td>\n&nbsp;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>Based on <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Vienna_Teng\">Wikipedia<\/a>, She was born to Taiwan parents, studied piano since five, grew up in Saratoga, California, got a CS degree from Stanford, and worked in Cisco for two years as a software engineer.  Then she quit and became a singer.  It is probably true that she is not yet a superstar, but she has her own voice and a faithful fan-base.  I think she has 4 CDs.  I have two: <i>Waking Hour<\/i> and <i>Dreaming Through the Noise<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Kid first introduced me Vienna Teng.  I like solo singers, particularly those who write their own song.  I listened to the samples and decided to keep them.  A couple of years later, I acquired a second CD, before I learned about her heritage and background.  Saratoga is within walking distance from my home.  She is literally a girl next door that may have gone to the same Chinese school as my kids, who also learned piano, like pretty much every kids to immigrant parents here.<\/p>\n<p>Her songs gradually moved up in my play-count chart.  Her voice is good, distinct, probably a bit breathy.  She has something, not her ethnic background, that draws me back.  But I am probably to buy her CD because of her ethnic background, at least that&#8217;s why she is the first musician I blog about.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Based on Wikipedia, She was born to Taiwan parents, studied piano since five, grew up in Saratoga, California, got a CS degree from Stanford, and worked in Cisco for two years as a software engineer. Then she quit and &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/2009\/10\/vienna-teng-%e5%8f%b2%e9%80%b8%e6%ac%a3\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[301,300],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=758"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":759,"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758\/revisions\/759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}