Lea Salonga

Essential Albums

  • Aladdin (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

About Lea Salonga

Filipina singer and actress Lea Salonga is perhaps best known for playing a pair of animated Disney princesses: Jasmine in 1992’s Aladdin and Fa Mulan in 1998’s Mulan. • Solanga was seven when she made her professional stage debut in a Repertory Philippines production of The King and I in 1978. She released her first album, Small Voice, in 1981 when she was nine. • Her international breakthrough came at 18, in 1989, when Salonga originated the role of Kim in Miss Saigon, first in London’s West End and then on Broadway. She sang on the original cast recording and became the first Asian woman to win a Tony. • Salonga has released studio 11 albums, including a self-titled LP in 1993 that was her first international release. Lea Salonga peaked at No. 25 on Billboard’s Heatseekers Albums chart in the US. • She appeared as a coach on three seasons of the reality competition The Voice in the Philippines starting in 2013. Her screen credits have also included a 2016 guest appearance in the season finale of American musical comedy/drama series Crazy Ex-Girlfriend and a part in the 2019 musical film drama Yellow Rose.

HOMETOWN
Manila, Philippines
BORN
February 22, 1971
GENRE
Pop

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