An unreleased song by the late Taiwanese pop singer Teresa Teng, a darling of East Asian audiences from the 1970s to the 1990s, has been discovered in Japan and will be released in June, a source familiar with the matter said this week.
The light pop song, probably recorded in the mid-1980s, was a joint work of composer Takashi Miki and lyricist Toyohisa Araki, the duo behind Teng’s hits in Japan including “Toki no Nagare ni Mi wo Makase” (“Give yourself to the flow of time”).
The song, with a tone different from Teng’s dramatic Japanese melodies such as “Tsugunai” (“Atonement”), will be included in a three-CD album of Miki’s compositions to be released on June 25, according to the source.
An official of Universal Music found the song recorded on a tape stored in a warehouse in Tokyo several years ago while trying to sort past recordings.
Teresa Teng developed a big following across much of East Asia in her two-decade singing career before her death at the age of 42. Photo: Handout
As the song was untitled, Araki named it “Love Song wa Yogiri ga Osuki”, which translates as “Love songs like fog at night.”
AloJapan.com