Biography of Lea Salonga

Maria Lea Carmen Imutan Salonga AKA Lea Salonga | , a Filipina singer and actress, she is best known for her roles in musical theater, providing the singing voice for two Disney princesses in the two short stories; Aladdin as Jasmine and Mulan as Fa Mulan. She is known as a 2010 Disney Legend for her work with the Walt Disney Company .

Early life and education of Lea Salonga

Lea Salonga was born Maria Lea Carmen Imutan Salonga, on February 22, 1971, in Ermita, Manila. She was born to Filipino parents Feliciano Genuino Salonga (father) and Maria Ligaya Alcantara Imutan (mother). Lea was passionate about singing in her early age. She has a brother named Gerard Salonga , a conductor.

He went to the OB Montessori Center in Green Hills, San Juan, Metro Manila, where he completed his high school in 1988 and attended the University of the Philippines College of Music extension program, which aims to provide training in music and stage movement.

As a youngster at the Ateneo de Manila, she auditioned for Miss Saigon and later, after moving to New York for her job, she took two courses at Fordham University and the Lincoln Center Campus.

Lea Salonga’s career

Lea is the first Filipina artist to have been signed to an international record label and received a major album release and distribution deal in the United States. She has been one of the best-selling Filipino artists of all time with her albums having sold over five million copies worldwide.

Lea made her professional debut when she was just 7 years old playing in the musical. The King and I by Repertory Philippines.

Later, he began appearing in the leading roles of other musicals such as Cat on a Hot Tin Roof , La chica adios , Papel de Luna , and others. In 1985, Lea and her brother Gerard participated in the 8th Metro Manila Popular Music Festival. In addition, she also started appearing on the television screen through the GMA Network as a child actress and teen idol.

She also used to run her own musical TV show, titled Love, Read . She has acted in different movies like Ninja Boys , Captain Barbell , Like Father , Like Son , and many others.

In 1989, she was selected for the role of Kim in the musical Miss Saigon . It has been difficult to find a performer like her for the UK production, so we are looking for East Asian performers to come to Asia from Britain.

After the great success of Miss Saigon, she returned to her home country where she also received the Presidential Merit Award from President Corazon Aquino for her contribution to the dignity of the nation through her talent.

The video presented below features the famous Filipino-American singer Lea Salonga, who performs the famous song Reflection.

After completing Miss Saigon, she was offered a role in the Broadway production titled Les Miserables as the streetwise Eponine. She has been the first Asian actress to do so. Later, she did the reproduction of Disney’s Aladdin with the song ‘A Whole New World’, where the song won an Oscar.

In the same year, he released his self-titled international debut album, which went platinum in the Philippines and sold modestly in the United States, but sold over 3 million copies worldwide.

Their success stories continue afterwards. She has recorded several of the songs and released several of the albums. With her talent, she has won several awards in the music industry and has been in the respectable and dignified position. Lea has a powerful, high-pitched soprano voice ranging from D3 to C6.

She is praised for her control over her powerful voice. Her role in Miss Saigon has been the best display of her voice from top to bottom. She is also known for singing the simple love songs, which is a traditional Pilipino folk music.

For her talent, she has been nominated for Best Child Actress from the Philippine Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and has won all three Aliw Awards for Best Child Performer.

Lea has won prestigious Olivier, Drama Desk, Tony, Theater World and Outer Critics awards for her performance in the lead role of Kim in the musical Miss Saigon.

Lea Salonga Net Worth and Earnings

According to Celebrity Net Worth, Lea Salonga’s current net worth is estimated to be around $18 million. She earns a large amount of money from her jobs.

Her record sales for the album Little Voice in 1981 was approximately $26,000 and the album Lea in 1988 was $104,000. Ticket sales for the show Miss Saigon were $ 360,000,000. worldwide movie, Aladdin was $504,050,000.

Record sales for the album I’d Like to Teach the World to Sing in 1997 was $28,000, album Out of Memory in 1999 was $2,600,000, and the album Aladdin: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack in 2014 was $ 3,230,000.

Looking at his earnings over the past few years, he is definitely earning a high salary figure and living a lavish lifestyle.

Personal life, married and children of Lea Salonga

Salonga is a married woman. She is married to her husband Robert Charles Chien. The couple got married on January 10, 2004 after dating for a couple of years.

Her husband Perro is a Chinese-Japanese managing director of an entertainment software company based in Los Angeles, California.

Lea met him when she was doing the Flower Drum Song . Shortly after their first meeting, the couple began dating and turned their relationship into marriage in 2004.

The adorable lovebirds have also been blessed with a beautiful daughter who was born in 2006. They named their first and only child Nicole Beverly after Lea’s late mother-in-law. Lea mentioned her daughter as an avid video game fan in her print articles.

48-year-old singer Lea Salonga has been praised and appreciated for her fantastic singing talent. Lea is also known as Lei, Tata, Pride of the Philippines, and Manang, which she uses as her chat name.

The couple is living a happy married life with no divorce or separation issues. The couple is not rumored to be involved in any kind of affair or controversies.

Age, height, weight and body measurements

• Age: 48 years old as of 2019.
• Height: Measures at a height of 157 cm (5 feet 2 inches).
• Weight: It weighs about 54 kg.
• Eye Color: She has brown hair color.
• Body Structure: He has a slim body structure.

Lea is quite active on social media platforms like Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook, where she often posts images related to her professional career.

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