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Text: Yunyue Jinghongke
Editor|Yunyue Jinghongke
The fall of a dazzling star
On March 16, 2024, a sad news spread wildly across the Asian continent, like thunder everywhere, shocking the entire Chinese music scene. It is rumored that Teresa Teng, the brightest pearl of the Asian music scene and a palace-level diva who once swept hundreds of millions of fans, died unexpectedly during an ordinary holiday trip in Chiang Mai, Thailand, at the age of 44.
This bad news has undoubtedly dropped a bombshell on the entire Asian music scene and even the global Chinese music industry, and tens of millions of fans are like pins in their hearts and mourning. As the creator of Asian pop music legends, Teresa Teng has nurtured and bloomed too many immortal spiritual treasures on a small stage, and her sudden death is like eternal night completely swallowing up the last brilliant afterglow.
What makes people sigh is not only the regret that she passed away when she was still young, but also the abrupt end of a brilliant life. The night she said goodbye will forever be a painful memory that will be etched in the hearts of hundreds of millions of fans.
A humble rural past
If you look back at Teresa Teng's life history, she was born in an extremely poor and backward small rural village, and she was born in an ordinary peasant family, she is simply a trick of nature. However, fate often has other plans for the future superstar.
Despite her poor family background, Teresa Teng has shown extraordinary artistic talent since she was a child, and her unique musical cells have been nurtured and formed in her childish years. When she was 10 years old, she won the crown in a Huangmei Opera competition and immediately became the pride of her hometown.
At the age of 13, with the ideal of breaking out of the poor environment and her dedication to the music career, Teresa Teng gave up her studies and began a long road of struggle. She sang all over the streets and alleys, conquering the hearts of one music fan after another with her unique, slender and penetrating singing voice.
Success and fame are young
Just two years later, in 1967, Teresa Teng released her first album "Singapore Lover", which caused a sensation in the entire Chinese music scene. Since then, she has become popular like a rocket with her sweet and touching voice, and in just a few years, she has become a significant Asian diva.
"Sweet honey, how sweet you smile", this popular lyric has almost become synonymous with Teresa Teng. One after another popular golden songs came out one after another, and she was like a note goddess, sowing eternal notes in this world with her slender but sonorous voice.
If the end of the 60s was the period when Teresa Teng expanded her territory, then the early 70s was the stage for her to fully conquer the Asian music scene. With wave after wave of enthusiasm, Teresa Teng's singing is like an invincible torrent, setting off an unprecedented "Teresa Teng whirlwind" in the entire Asian continent.
In 1973, as an Asian superstar, she made a desperate attempt to enter Japan's entertainment powerhouse, and finally became a new diva in Japan with her extraordinary strength and charm.
Brief love pains
Although her career is thriving and her career is booming, Teresa Teng's pace is always stumbling and thorny on the emotional road. She had scandals with Hong Kong wealthy businessman Lin Zhenfa and movie star Jackie Chan, but both relationships ended in failure.
It wasn't until 1989 that the half-lived diva finally regained the happiness of life - she was officially engaged to billionaire Guo Kongcheng, and it seemed that she was just a pointer away from finally becoming a family. However, on the eve of entering the marriage hall, this relationship ended gloomily because of the opposition of both families, which made people sigh.
In 1990, Teresa Teng, who was deeply hurt, decided to fade out of the music scene and temporarily live in seclusion in a quiet town in France. This was originally a precious opportunity for her to regain her life, but it was also destined to become the last embarrassing episode in her life.
In a resort town in France, Teresa Teng met and fell in love with an ordinary France man, Paul, and the two soon lived together. This relationship became the last gift of her quiet years, and it was also one of the few happy loves in her life.
In March 1995, Teresa Teng took her lover Paul to a small town in Chiang Mai, Thailand, where she wanted to stay for a few days and relax. Who would have thought that fate would play a cruel joke on her, and this trip, which was supposed to be a pure holiday trip, became the final music of her life.
Tragedy strikes and there is a hidden mystery
On that night that should have been a good time, Teresa Teng suddenly had severe breathing difficulties, and finally died after rescue efforts failed. According to Paul, an eyewitness at the scene, Teresa Teng wheezed violently that night, often needed to use a large number of sprays to relieve symptoms, and appeared to have suffered a severe asthma attack. But just before she died, she suddenly became very quiet again, and there was no sound of crying for help, so she left forever.
Such an ordinary death process should not have caused too much suspicion and rumors. But soon, some even more bizarre details were revealed, and the whole incident was instantly shrouded in mystery.
The mystery of the corpse
According to Japan media reports, Teresa Teng's body was actually found with 9 pinholes and large areas of red spots after being transported back to Taiwan! The brief respite and the calm that followed Paul's description that night did not seem quite plausible.
Such contradictory details all reveal an eerie atmosphere, reminiscent of the scene of some deliberate murder. Some media even directly suspected that Teresa Teng was killed by him, rather than being killed by an occasional illness.
Coincidentally, with the further fermentation of the incident, incredible plots surfaced one after another. There have been media reports that when the Thailand police decided to autopsy Teresa Teng's body, Teresa Teng's family and Paul suddenly made a puzzling move - they unanimously refused the autopsy! The reason is out of respect for the deceased.
In order to maintain the integrity of Teresa Teng's body, they quickly transported the body to Taiwan and cremated the body in a short time, so that all traces disappeared. The whole process was unusually fast, preventing any further scrutiny.
All these bizarre omissions and undercurrents surged, making the truth of the whole incident confusing and enveloping in a layer of mysterious mist that could not be pierced.
All signs point to a more serious suspicion - the possibility that Teresa Teng was killed by him. Since then, all kinds of speculations have followed, and some people even suspect that the final outcome of this diva is not medical malpractice, but deliberately plotted and murdered by some people.
The truth is a flash in the pan
After months of thorough investigation and evidence collection, the Thailand police finally denied the speculative version of the "homicide". Police investigators concluded that the pinholes on the body were apparently caused by embalming injections, and that the large area of erythema was caused by Teresa Teng's collision with a hard object during her final struggle. From a physical point of view, Teresa Teng's body did not have any traces of external attack or deliberate mutilation.
At the same time, with the exposure of more internal information, Teresa Teng's family's statement that she denied her asthma history in advance was completely overturned. In fact, Teresa Teng has been a severe asthma patient since she was a child, just to hide the truth and avoid affecting her career development, she concealed this from the outside world.
Until that night, Teresa Teng was suddenly attacked by an illness while on vacation in Chiang Mai, causing her asthma to recur violently, and finally crushing her fragile body. The medical appraisal report concluded that Teresa Teng's cause of death was severe respiratory distress syndrome and circulatory collapse caused by an asthma attack, and there was no involvement of any external factors.
The spirit of art lives on through the ages
Although Teresa Teng left in such a hurry, conspiracy theories such as murder were once prevalent. But this is just the wishful thinking of public opinion after all, even if she walked a little strangely, and there was no deliberate act of man-made.
This ordinary ending may make people feel a little disappointed in this palace queen who has been beautiful several times. But from another point of view, perhaps this is the epitome of the most extraordinary struggle in her life - she has exhausted her fate, but she still treasures the most precious things. That is her sincere and persistent artistic heart, as well as her never-ending musical spirit.
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