Artist Highlight: Vienna Teng

The Official Vienna Teng Website

Ive been listening to Vienna Teng since she released her first album. If you like Tori Amos, youll like Vienna. She has an amazing voice and plays the piano. Her lyrics are not as cryptic as Tori's, but somehow profound. Not convinced? She has some free MP3s on her site.

I went to listen to her when she visited Seattle and played at the Triple Door. Listening to her live was awesome. Shes got a nice, easy personality on stage and had some great stories to share. The Triple Door was also an interesting venue. Its intimate in size (seating for maybe a 100-200?) and ambience. It consists of dinner tables and booths underground. The food they serve there is sadly subpar, but thats not what youre there for, at least not when someone like Vienna is performing.

Vienna is a high school friend of my old roommate's, so he told me when she quit Cisco (she was a Software Engineer) and released her first album. Her second album is out now, and while I still prefer the first album as a whole, the new one has some real gems.

Check it out.