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Maria Lea Carmen Imutan Salonga [1] was born on February 22, 1971 [2] to Ligaya ( née Imutan) (b. 1937) and Feliciano Genuino Salonga (1929–2016). [3] [4] She has a younger brother named Gerard. [5] At age three, she was trained by her aunt in singing. [6] [7] At age seven, she and her family relocated from Pampanga to Manila.
Tweets by MsLeaSalonga. Follow @msleasalonga. Multiple award-winning actress and singer Lea Salonga is renown across the world for her powerful voice and perfect pitch. She is best known for her Tony Award winning role in Miss Saigon. Additional performances include Les Misérables, Aladdin, Mulan, Flower Drum Song, Cinderella, Allegiance, and ...
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Lea is a judge on the Philippines hit version of The Voice. Mitoy Yonting, a member of Team Lea, was named the first season winner.
She began 2015 with a sold-out concert at New Yorks Town Hall titled Kaleidoscope as well as performed on tour in the United States, Hong Kong, Singapore and Australia.
In the fall of 2015 Lea began her celebrated run as Kei Kimura in the Broadway production of Allegiance. The musical, inspired and developed by legendary actor George Takei, tells the story of a Japanese American family forced into an internment camp during World War II. Lea garnered a Craig Noel nomination for Outstanding Featured Performance in a...
Lea made her debut in the world of Cabaret in 2010, performing a sold out, three week engagement at the Café Carlyle in New York City. She returned in June 2011 to delight audiences in another multi-week engagement and released a live version of her 2010 concert Lea Salonga: The Journey So Far, her 26th career CD, in August 2011. The CD rose to the...
Lea has toured all over the world, performing sold out concerts in such locations as the Sydney Opera House, Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, Singapores Esplanade (twice), Kuala Lumpur Convention Center (twice), Hong Kong Cultural Center (multiple times), Queen Sirikit Convention Center in Bangkok, Carnegie Hall in New York, and in various venue...
Many fans of all ages recognize Lea as the singing voice of Princess Jasmine from Aladdin and Fa Mulan for Mulan and Mulan II. For her portrayal of the beloved princesses, the Walt Disney Company bestowed her with the honor of Disney Legend in August of 2011 along with such luminaries as Regis Philbin, Jim Henson (posthumously) and Anika Noni Rose.
She also served as one of the judges of the 2011 Miss Universe Pageant telecast, held in Sao Paulo, Brazil. The telecast was viewed by over one billion people in more than 100 countries worldwide.
Honored with an appointment as a United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization Goodwill Ambassador in October of 2010, Lea vowed to act as an advocate for the Youth and United Nations Global Alliance initiative led by the FAO. The same year, she also joined forces with Avon as a celebrity judge for Avon Voices, alongside such artists as Fergie, ...
In her 37-year career, Lea has performed for six Philippine presidents (from Ferdinand Marcos to Benigno S. Aquino III), three American Presidents (George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush), and for Diana, Princess of Wales and Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. She began her career as a child star in the Philippines, making her professiona...
In 2002, she took on the role of a Chinese immigrant in a reinterpretation of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Flower Drum Song, on Broadway, opposite Jose Llana. This was after the reinvented musical had a very successful run at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles in 2001, with Lea playing the lead role and the show garnering multiple wins and nomination...
An avid techie and gamer, Lea divides her time between Manila, Philippines with her family and the United States.
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Lea Salonga is a Filipino-American singer and actress who voiced Jasmine in Aladdin and Kim in Miss Saigon. She has also performed for royalty, presidents, and on Broadway, and won a Tony Award for her role in Les Misérables.
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Aug 14, 2023 · Lea Salonga attends the opening night for "Here Lies Love" on July 20 in New York. John Nacion/Getty Images. As a further example, Salonga brought up the experience of Jose Llana, the actor who ...
Feb 5, 2024 · Photograph: Lea Salonga. International stardom followed. Salonga, now 52, diminutive with a pixie cut, reflects on how different it felt walking into Drury Lane then: “I was not super aware of ...
