Kiri Te Kanawa Kiri Te Kanawa Dame Kiri Janette Te Kanawa (; born Claire Mary Teresa Rawstron, 6 March 1944) is a New Zealand soprano. She has a full lyric soprano voice, which has been described as "mellow yet vibrant, warm, ample and unforced". Te Kanawa has received accolades in many countries, singing a wide array of works in many languages dating from the 17th to the 20th centuries. She is particularly associated with the works of Mozart, Strauss, Verdi, Handel and Puccini, and has found considerable success in portraying princesses, nobility, and other similar characters on stage. Though she rarely sang opera
Teresa Carpio Teresa Carpio Teresa Carpio (born 30 September 1956 in Hong Kong) is a Hong Kong English pop and Cantopop singer, actress, and singing teacher. As a singer she who has enjoyed substantial popularity in Hong Kong and other countries, particularly during the 1970s and 1980s. She is also the mother of singer T.V. Carpio. She is most well known for her Cantonese hits, 假如 (If), 仍然記得嗰一次 (I Still Remember That Time), 眉頭不再皺 (Sukiyaki), 何必放棄 (Why Give Up) and 真愛 (True Love). Carpio's father is Filipino and her mother Shanghainese. Born into a musical family (her grandfather was a concert violinist