Queen of (Sneaky) Pop

“Music can be an incredible vehicle for things that are hard to look at without it,” says Vienna Teng, 45, a singer–songwriter who could also be called a composer, an arranger, a one-woman a cappella group. “I’m often trying to create the dinner party where the food is great, and the company is great, and you can talk about real stuff. If my songwriting had a mission statement, that would be it.”