Lea Salonga Wikipedia. Lea Salonga. KLDBackground information. Birth name. Maria Lea Carmen Imutan Salonga1Born1. February 2. 2, 1. Manila, Philippines2Genres. Pop, OPM, R B, musical theatre. OccupationsSinger, actress. Years active. 19. Labels. Atlantic, Arista, Capitol, EMI Philippines, Musiko, Sony Music Philippines, WEA, Walt Disney. Websitewww. leasalonga. Maria Lea Carmen Imutan Salonga, KLD born February 2. Lea Salonga, is a Filipina singer and actress best known for her roles in musical theatre, for supplying the singing voices of two Disney Princesses, and as a recording artist and television performer. At age 1. 8, she originated the lead role of Kim in the musical Miss Saigon, first in the West End and then on Broadway,3 winning the Olivier and Theatre World Awards, and becoming the first Asian woman to win a Tony Award. Salonga is the first Filipino artist to sign with an international record label Atlantic Records in 1. She is also the first Philippine based artist to have received a major album release and distribution deal in the United States, and one of the best selling Filipino artists of all time, having sold over 1. Salonga was the first actress of Asian descent to play the roles of ponine and Fantine in the musical Les Misrables on Broadway. She also portrayed ponine and Fantine, respectively, in the musicals 1. London. She provided the singing voices of two official Disney Princesses Jasmine in Aladdin 1. Welcome to Hollywood Secrets a weekly video series uncovering Hollywoods bestkept secrets. Check back for new episodes every Tuesday If you want to ultimate. Pocahontas Story Powhatan History Mailing List Friends Program Please ADD your comments to the guestbook we are keeping. Disneys Club Penguin Island is a place where your adventures begin Kids can chat with friends, create styles, quest for special items, and more. INSIDE OUT Diseny Pixar Secret Agent Assistant Nickelodeon Paw Patrol Toys Video Parody. Fa Mulan in Mulan 1. She was named a Disney Legend in 2. The Walt Disney Company. Salonga starred as Mei li in the 2. Broadway version of Flower Drum Song. She has played numerous other stage, film and TV roles in the US, the Philippines and elsewhere. She has toured widely in the title role of Cinderella, among other roles, and as a concert artist. From 2. 01. 5 to 2. Broadway in Allegiance. Life and careeredit1. Early life and careereditMara Lea Carmen Imutan Salonga was born at Medical Center Manila in Ermita, Manila, to Feliciano Genuino Salonga, a naval Rear admiral and shipping company owner 1. Mara Ligaya Alcantara, ne Imutan. She spent the first six years of her childhood in Angeles City before moving to Manila. Her brother, Gerard Salonga, is a conductor. She made her professional debut in 1. The King and I with Repertory Philippines. She played the title role in Annie in 1. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Fiddler on the Roof, The Sound of Music, The Rose T, The Goodbye Girl 1. Paper Moon 1. 98. The Fantasticks 1. In 1. 98. 1, she recorded her first album, Small Voice, which was certified gold in the Philippines. In 1. 98. 5, she and her brother took part in the eighth Metro Manila Popular Music Festival as the interpreters for the song entry titled Musika, Lata, Sipol at La La La which was composed by Tess Concepcion. During the 1. 98. Salonga also had several television projects through GMA Radio Television Arts where she worked as a child actor and teen idol. After the success of her first album, from 1. Love, Lea,1. 0 and was a member of the cast of German Morenos teen variety show Thats Entertainment. She acted in films, which included the family oriented Tropang Bulilit, Like Father, Like Son, Ninja Kids, Captain Barbell and Pik Pak Boom. As a young performer, Salonga received a Filipino Academy of Movie Arts and Sciences FAMAS award nomination for Best Child Actress, and three Aliw Awards for best child performer in 1. She released her second album, Lea, in 1. She also opened for, and performed with, international acts such as Menudo and Stevie Wonder in their concerts in Manila in 1. She finished her secondary education in 1. O. B. Montessori Center in Greenhills, San Juan, Metro Manila,1. Bergamo 1 Student and an active participant in school productions. She also attended the University of the Philippines College of Musics extension program aimed at training musically talented children in music and stage movement. A college freshman studying biology at the Ateneo de Manila University when she auditioned for Miss Saigon, she intended to have a medical career. Later, in between jobs in New York, she took two courses at Fordham Universitys Lincoln Center. Miss Saigon and AladdineditIn 1. Salonga was selected to play Kim in the debut production of the musical Miss Saigon in London. Unable to find a strong enough East Asian actresssinger in the United Kingdom, the producers scoured many countries looking for the lead. For her audition, the then 1. Salonga chose to sing Boublil and Claude Michel Schnbergs On My Own from Les Misrables and was later asked to sing Sun and Moon, impressing the audition panel. Salonga has sometimes credited On My Own as the starting point of her international career. She competed for the role with childhood friend and fellow Repertory Philippines performer Monique Wilson. Salonga won the lead role, while Wilson was named her understudy and given the role of the bar girl Mimi. For her performance as Kim, Salonga won the 1. Laurence Olivier Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Musical. Daihatsu Sirion 2004 Service Manual more. When Miss Saigon opened on Broadway in 1. Kim,2. 3 winning the Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle and Theatre World Awards3 and becoming the first woman of Asian descent to win a Tony Award. In 1. 99. 3 and 1. Kim on Broadway. 6 In 1. London to close the West End production, and in 2. Manila run of the musical,2. Salonga returned to Broadway to close that production. In 1. 99. 0, Salonga performed in a homecoming concert in Manila entitled A Miss Called Lea. She also received a Presidential Award of Merit from President. Corazon Aquino. 2. In 1. 99. 1, she was named as one of People magazines 5. Most Beautiful People. In 1. 99. 2, she performed the singing voice of Princess Jasmine in Disneys animated film Aladdin. Les Misrables, films and other musicalseditIn 1. Salonga played the role of ponine in the Broadway production of Les Misrables. She performed the song A Whole New World from Aladdin with Brad Kane at the 6. Annual Academy Awards in Los Angeles,3. Oscar, having already won a Golden Globe Award. That same year, she released her self titled international debut album with Atlantic Records, which had modest sales in the US but went platinum in the Philippines and sold 3 million copies worldwide. In 1. Salonga played in various musical theatre productions in the Philippines and Singapore,31. Sandy in Grease, Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady and the Witch in Into the Woods. Back in the US in 1. Salonga played the role of Geri Riordan, an 1. Vietnamese American child in the Hallmark Hall of Fame. TV movie. Redwood Curtain, which starred John Lithgow and Jeff Daniels. She then flew back to the Philippines to star with Filipino matine idol Aga Muhlach in the critically acclaimed film Sana Maulit Muli, which gave her a second Filipino Academy of Movie Arts and Sciences FAMAS award nomination, this time for Best Actress. She played the role of ponine in the 1. Les Mis called Les Misrables The Dream Cast in Concert at Londons Royal Albert Hall. In 1. Salonga was in Les Misrables once again as ponine in the London production of the musical, then continued on to perform the role in the musicals US national tour. In the Philippines in 1. Sonia Walsk in Theyre Playing Our Song. Recordings, concerts, TV and Flower Drum SongeditFrom 1.