LEA SALONGA

1971- María Lea Carmen Imutan Salonga was born in Ermita Manila, She spent the first six years of her childhood in Angeles
City before moving to Manila.
1978- Lea Salonga made her professional debut at the age of seven in the musical The King and I with Repertory Philippines. She
played the title role in Annie in 1980 and appeared in other productions such as Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Fiddler on the Roof, The
Sound of Music, The Rose T, The Goodbye Girl Paper Moon and The Fantasticks In
1983- Lea Salonga hosted her own musical television show, Love, Lea, and was a member of the cast of German Moreno's teen
variety show That's Entertainment. She acted in films, 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.
1988- Lea Salonga finished her secondary education at the O. B. Montessori Center in Greenhills, San Juan, Metro Manila, where she
was a Bergamo 1 Student and an active participant in school productions. She also attended the University of the Philippines College
of Music's 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 University's Lincoln Center Campus.
1989-1992- Salonga was selected to play Kim in the debut production of the musical Miss Saigon in London. For her performance
as Kim, Salonga won the 1990 Laurence Olivier Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Musical. When Miss Saigon opened
on Broadway, she again played the role of Kim, winning the Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle and Theatre World Awards and becoming
the first woman of Asian descent to win a Tony Award and In 1992, she performed the singing voice of Princess
Jasmine in Disney's animated film Aladdin.
1993- Salonga played the role of Éponine in the Broadway production of Les Misérables. She performed the song "A Whole New
World" from Aladdin with Brad Kane at the 65th Annual Academy Awards in Los Angeles.
1998- Salonga lent her voice again to a major Disney animated film, singing the title character in Mulan, also providing the
character's singing voice in the 2004 sequel, Mulan II.
2004- Salonga married Robert Charles Chien, a Chinese-Japanese managing director of an entertainment software company in Los
Angeles, California, whom she met while performing in Flower Drum Song. They have one child. Salonga is also an avid video
game enthusiast. She resides in the Philippines and the United States.
2010- Salonga was appointed Goodwill Ambassador for the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).
2011- Salonga was honored as a Disney Legend on August 19, 2011. She was one of the judges in the 60th Miss Universe 2011 Beauty
Pageant in São Paulo, Brazil on 12 September 2011.
2013- She was one of the four coaches, together with apl.de.ap, Sarah Geronimo, and Bamboo Manalac for the ABS-CBN program, The
Voice of the Philippines, In 2014, she returned as a coach for the second season of The Voice of the Philippines and also joined the
new Philippine version of The Voice Kids, on which she has appeared for three seasons, as of 2016.
2016- Salonga won two more Aliw Awards, one for Best Major Concert in a Foreign Venue and her second Entertainer of the Year
award. The following year, Salonga was one of the coaches on The Voice Teens.
2017-2018- Salonga portrayed Erzulie in 2017–2018 in the Broadway revival of Once on This Island at Circle in the Square Theatre,
where she received critical praise for her vocal performance.
2019- Salonga appears as a Philippine immigrant, aunt Gail, in the 2019 musical film, Yellow Rose, and She was one of the four
coaches on The Voice kids.