VIENNA TENG - Live in Germany 2025

Vienna Teng celebrated her breakthrough with her album "Warm Strangers" in the early 2000s. The album landed her in three Billboard charts and was ranked number 2 on Amazon's bestseller list. She appeared on the legendary David Letterman Show and was the support act for Joan Baez, Marc Cohen, Indigo Girls and Shawn Calwin. She not only tours the USA, but also delights European audiences at her numerous concerts. Sometimes she performs with strings, sometimes with the congenial multi-instrumentalist Alex Wong.

And all this despite the fact that the Asian-American Californian actually had a future-proof job at one of the big IT companies in Silicon Valley. It was only logical, since she had studied and graduated in computer engineering at the highly prestigious Stanford University.

But her childhood and teenage dream was always music. She was already playing the piano at the age of five and was composing at the age of six. She remained self-taught and even gave herself a stage name as a child: "When I played a few rock songs and made the childish decision to become a star one day, I definitely wanted to have a stage name. That's how I came up with Vienna Teng, as an homage to the city of Vienna, which I imagined to be simply magical as the home of Mozart and Beethoven.

Her music is somewhere between folk and pop and a bit of jazz and a bit of classical. Her wonderful soprano voice can range from very gentle to powerful, her lyrics are clever and introspective. In her songs, all of which she has composed and written herself, Vienna Teng is a pragmatic philosopher; she reflects on fate, family, relationships, politics, religion. She raises her voice, takes a stand - far beyond all everyday pop music. But she doesn't just sing, she is also personally involved, for example, with "Habitat for Humanity", an organization that works worldwide to provide decent accommodation for even the poorest people.

As with her IT career, Vienna Teng interrupts her music career, goes back to university and studies ecology, which leads her to her new field of work in the field of climate protection, alternative energy and waste management. There are also changes in her family; she becomes an adoptive mother to her partner's two children and has a child of her own in 2020.

For a long time, music was just a hobby, but now this wonderful artist - whom we have missed for so long - is keen to return to the concert stage. Back with her versatile piano playing, her catchy melodies, her profound lyrics and her wonderful voice. Welcome back Vienna Teng!