Lea Salonga
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With a voice that's both warm and powerful, Lea Salonga is a Tony Award-winning singer and actress known for a lengthy stage résumé that includes originating the role of Kim in Miss Saigon. She's also known as the singing voice of not one but two Disney princesses (Jasmine and Mulan), and as an international recording artist with album sales in the tens of millions. A native of the Philippines, she was the first Asian woman to win a Tony Award (1991), the first Filipino to sign with an international record label (1993), and is one of the best-selling Filipino artists of all time. Still going strong well after being cast in 1998's Mulan, she co-starred in the Broadway revival of Once on This Island in 2017 and landed in the Top 20 of the Billboard Classical Albums chart with 2019's The Story of My Life: Live from Manila.
Born Maria Lea Carmen Imutan Salonga in Manila, and raised in Angeles City and Manila, Salonga made her professional stage debut in 1978 as a seven-year-old in The King and I. She followed that with a steady childhood career on-stage, appearing in musicals such as Annie and The Sound of Music before recording her first solo album, Small Voice (1981), at the age of ten. The album was certified gold in the Philippines, and Salonga went on to host her own musical TV series, Love, Lea. Continuing to take roles in musical theater throughout her teens, she released her second album, Lea Salonga, in 1988. It became a multi-platinum hit in Asia.
Salonga had her intercontinental breakthrough when she was cast as Vietnamese peasant Kim in Miss Saigon, which premiered on the West End's Drury Lane in September 1989. She also originated the role on Broadway in April 1991. Among other accolades, she took home an Olivier Award and a Tony Award for her portrayal of Kim. In 1992, she was heard by generations of filmgoers worldwide as the singing voice of Jasmine in Disney's Aladdin...more
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Born Maria Lea Carmen Imutan Salonga in Manila, and raised in Angeles City and Manila, Salonga made her professional stage debut in 1978 as a seven-year-old in The King and I. She followed that with a steady childhood career on-stage, appearing in musicals such as Annie and The Sound of Music before recording her first solo album, Small Voice (1981), at the age of ten. The album was certified gold in the Philippines, and Salonga went on to host her own musical TV series, Love, Lea. Continuing to take roles in musical theater throughout her teens, she released her second album, Lea Salonga, in 1988. It became a multi-platinum hit in Asia.
Salonga had her intercontinental breakthrough when she was cast as Vietnamese peasant Kim in Miss Saigon, which premiered on the West End's Drury Lane in September 1989. She also originated the role on Broadway in April 1991. Among other accolades, she took home an Olivier Award and a Tony Award for her portrayal of Kim. In 1992, she was heard by generations of filmgoers worldwide as the singing voice of Jasmine in Disney's Aladdin...more
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With a voice that's both warm and powerful, Lea Salonga is a Tony Award-winning singer and actress known for a lengthy stage résumé that includes originating the role of Kim in Miss Saigon. She's also known as the singing voice of not one but two Disney princesses (Jasmine and Mulan), and as an international recording artist with album sales in the tens of millions. A native of the Philippines, she was the first Asian woman to win a Tony Award (1991), the first Filipino to sign with an international record label (1993), and is one of the best-selling Filipino artists of all time. Still going strong well after being cast in 1998's Mulan, she co-starred in the Broadway revival of Once on This Island in 2017 and landed in the Top 20 of the Billboard Classical Albums chart with 2019's The Story of My Life: Live from Manila.
Born Maria Lea Carmen Imutan Salonga in Manila, and raised in Angeles City and Manila, Salonga made her professional stage debut in 1978 as a seven-year-old in The King and I. She followed that with a steady childhood career on-stage, appearing in musicals such as Annie and The Sound of Music before recording her first solo album, Small Voice (1981), at the age of ten. The album was certified gold in the Philippines, and Salonga went on to host her own musical TV series, Love, Lea. Continuing to take roles in musical theater throughout her teens, she released her second album, Lea Salonga, in 1988. It became a multi-platinum hit in Asia.
Salonga had her intercontinental breakthrough when she was cast as Vietnamese peasant Kim in Miss Saigon, which premiered on the West End's Drury Lane in September 1989. She also originated the role on Broadway in April 1991. Among other accolades, she took home an Olivier Award and a Tony Award for her portrayal of Kim. In 1992, she was heard by generations of filmgoers worldwide as the singing voice of Jasmine in Disney's Aladdin
Born Maria Lea Carmen Imutan Salonga in Manila, and raised in Angeles City and Manila, Salonga made her professional stage debut in 1978 as a seven-year-old in The King and I. She followed that with a steady childhood career on-stage, appearing in musicals such as Annie and The Sound of Music before recording her first solo album, Small Voice (1981), at the age of ten. The album was certified gold in the Philippines, and Salonga went on to host her own musical TV series, Love, Lea. Continuing to take roles in musical theater throughout her teens, she released her second album, Lea Salonga, in 1988. It became a multi-platinum hit in Asia.
Salonga had her intercontinental breakthrough when she was cast as Vietnamese peasant Kim in Miss Saigon, which premiered on the West End's Drury Lane in September 1989. She also originated the role on Broadway in April 1991. Among other accolades, she took home an Olivier Award and a Tony Award for her portrayal of Kim. In 1992, she was heard by generations of filmgoers worldwide as the singing voice of Jasmine in Disney's Aladdin
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I love her music. Wish they'll add lesson number one from Mulan