Stephen's Cross', 'True Colors' live Berkeley 2017, 'White Light', 'You've Got a Glow')Ĭ♯5 ('Anna Rose', 'Annie's Song' live Berkeley 2017, 'Antebellum', 'As Long as I Am Living', 'Augustine', 'Blue Caravan', ' Close to Home', 'Decade and One', 'Drought', ' Goodnight New York', 'Gravity', 'Green Island Serenade', 'Harbor', 'In Another Life', 'Kansas', 'My Medea', 'Momentum', 'Never Look Away', 'No Gringo', 'Nothing Without You', 'Shine', 'Soon Love Soon', 'Stray Italian Greyhound', 'The Tower')Ĭ5 ('Abound', 'Anna Rose', 'Between', 'Both Sides Now' live Freight & Salvage 2015, 'Boy at the Piano' live Berkeley 2017, 'Cannonball', 'Fire and Rain' live San Francisco 2006, 'Go On Make Promises' live Berkeley 2017, 'Got to Get You Into My Life', 'Grandmother Song', 'Harbor', 'The Human Experience', 'I Don't Feel So Well', 'Imagine' live Berkeley 2017, 'In Another Life', 'Isn't It Amazing?', 'Knock Knock', 'Level Up', 'Look to the Thought', 'No Gringo', 'Passage', 'Radio', 'The Real Thing', 'Recessional', 'The Riversitter', 'Say Uncle', 'Sid's Temptations, Pt. Stephen's Cross', 'You Are There')Į♭5 (' Ain't No Sunshine/Lose Yourself' live West Virginia 2013, 'Bridge Over Troubled Water' live Berkeley 2017, 'Decade and One', 'Fire and Rain' live San Francisco 2006, 'Goodnight New York', 'Gravity', 'Harbor', 'The Hymn of Acxiom', 'Knock Knock ', 'Momentum', 'Never Look Away', ' No Gringo', 'Stray Italian Greyhound', 'Whatever You Want', 'You Are There')ĭ5 ('Between', 'Bridge Over Troubled Water' live Berkeley 2017, 'Cannonball', 'City Hall', 'Copenhagen (Let Me Go)', 'Coventry Carol' live Berkeley 2019 'Eric's Song', 'Fire and Rain' live San Francisco 2006, 'Flyweight Love', 'Grandmother Song', 'Hope on Fire', 'I Don't Feel So Well', 'I Will Not Rise', 'Kansas', 'Landsailor', ' The Last Snowfall', 'Maya' live Berkeley 2017, ' Mission Street', 'Passage', 'Say the Word', 'Say Uncle', 'Shine', 'Soon Love Soon', ' Radio', 'Strong Enough' live Berkeley 2017, ' St. Aside from the natural deepening in timbre that comes with age, she has sounded remarkably consistent vocally, maintaining the same energy and sensitivity she had seventeen years ago and hopefully keeping it up in the years to come.į♯5 ('Abound', ' Close to Home', ' Drought', ' The Hymn of Acxiom', ' Never Look Away', ' The Tower')į5 ('Ain't No Sunshine/Lose Yourself' live West Virginia 2013, ' Between', 'Flyweight Love', 'Got to Get You Into My Life', ' Grandmother Song', 'The Hymn of Acxiom', ' White Light')Į5 ('As Long as I Am Living', ' Cannonball', 'Eric's Song', 'Flyweight Love', 'Hope on Fire', 'Look to the Thought (Reprise)', ' Radio', ' St. Though she has largely relegated music to a part-time career in recent years to focus on her family and her work on climate change, she continues to perform and write songs on a sporadic basis. She can change it up for more energetic material, however, going for a darker tone in her lows or a more strident tone in her highs as the style demands. Soft, angelic, and somewhat breathy most of the time, it is a lovely voice built for expressing the complex emotions that suffuse much of her music. Placement aside, however, the most notable thing about Teng's voice is its tone.

Vocally, she is difficult to completely categorize- her light and crystalline-sounding (if not particularly stratospheric) higher register has led some critics to call her a soprano, though her solid and well-used lower range as well as her naturally deep speaking voice indicate this may not be entirely the case. Her material has incorporated everything from mechanical vocoder choirs to propulsive hip-hop beats, and her penchant for unusual time signatures and harmonies makes even her 'regular' chamber pop tunes feel like something fresh and different. Though she was initially pegged as another purveyor of soft, sensitive piano-pop in the vein of Tori Amos or Sarah Mclachlan, singer-songwriter Vienna Teng (a stage name made out of her favorite European city and her parents' favorite Taiwanese pop singer) has swiftly evolved into a unique, envelope-pushing artist capable of throwing serious curveballs both musically and lyrically.

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