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Lea Salonga

Lea Salonga is a renowned Filipino singer and actress born in 1971 in Manila. She began her career as a child star in the Philippines, making her professional debut at age 7 in The King and I. She is best known for originating the role of Kim in Miss Saigon, for which she won a Tony Award. Lea Salonga is a multiple award-winning performer who is renowned worldwide for her powerful singing voice and perfect pitch.

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Lea Salonga

Lea Salonga is a renowned Filipino singer and actress born in 1971 in Manila. She began her career as a child star in the Philippines, making her professional debut at age 7 in The King and I. She is best known for originating the role of Kim in Miss Saigon, for which she won a Tony Award. Lea Salonga is a multiple award-winning performer who is renowned worldwide for her powerful singing voice and perfect pitch.

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Lea

Salonga
Maria Lea Carmen Imutan
Salonga
Maria Lea Carmen Imutan
Salonga
was born on February 22, 1971,
in the Ermita district of Manila,
Philippines to Feliciano Genuino
Salonga, a naval rear admiral
and shipping company owner,
and María Ligaya Alcántara, née
Imutan of Pulupandan, Negros
Occidental.
She began her career as a child star in the
Philippines, making her professional debut in 1978
at the age of seven in the musical 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
Salonga went on to host her own musical TV series, Love, Lea.
Salonga had her intercontinental breakthrough when she was
cast as Vietnamese peasant Kim in Miss Saigon
She also originated the role on Broadway in April 1991 (Miss
Saigon)
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. In
addition, she has won the
Olivier, Drama Desk, Outer
Critics Circle and Theatre
World Awards, in the field of
musical theatre.

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