![]() ![]() She said my pitch was dead on, but I'd fill in nonsense syllables for all the rest of it. My Mom would play me tapes, and I'd be able to sing them back perfectly. The classic story is I started singing before I talked. My parents said I'd always been attracted to music from an early age. Vienna Teng: It started apparently before I really made any conscious decision. Getting Started with Musicīill Venners: How did you get started with music when you were young? Along the way, she compares song writing with software design. How did she do it? In this first interview with a former programmer, I ask Vienna Teng how she became interested in music, why she chose computer science over medicine, and how she not only chased after her dream but managed to catch it at such an early age. And I learned that two days after that performance at Border's, she was scheduled to perform on Late Night with David Letterman. I learned that after Stanford, she had been a programmer at Cisco for two years before quitting her day job the previous May. They were listening intently.Īt Border's I learned that Vienna Teng had attended Stanford, initially in pre-med, but ultimately with a major in computer science. About 60 people gathered at Borders, and they weren't walking by ignoring her. The web site said she'd be playing at Border's Books in Milpitas that weekend, so I went to see her. To my surprise, there was that same face I'd seen at Santana Row. The music sounded nice over the radio, so I looked the name up on the web. I listened for a while, but I had presents to buy and the stores would soon close, so before long I too walked on.Ī few weeks later on a Sunday morning in mid-January, I heard Liane Hansen interview a new female singer named Vienna Teng on NPR Weekend Edition. For the most part, everyone else was walking by ignoring her. I felt a bit uncomfortable standing there in front of her, though, because I was the only one. I liked the music, and stopped to listen. She had set up her equipment in a corner across from a coffee shop. Last December, while doing some last minute Christmas shopping at the Santana Row mall in San Jose, I came upon a young woman playing the piano and singing. ![]() In this interview, you'll find out how Vienna Teng, a 24 year old Java programmer at Cisco, landed a record contract, quit her day job to pursue her passion in music, and before long ended up on the Dave Letterman show. ![]()
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