My Uncut Perspective | Lea Salonga | Talks at Google

Filipino Googlers Networks & PhilDev kicked off Filipino American History Month with Tony award winning singer and actress Lea Salonga! She's the first Filipino to be signed to an international record label - Atlantic Records in 1993. Lea's the first Asian to play the roles of Éponine and Fantine in Broadway's Les Misérables. She portrayed both roles on the musical's 10th and 25th anniversary show in London respectively after starring as Kim in Ms Saigon. She was also the singing voice of Jasmine in Aladdin (1992), Fa Mulan in Mulan (1998) and Mulan II (2004). Salonga was named a Disney Legend in 2011 for her work with The Walt Disney Company.
Most recently, Lea completed judging on the Philippines version of "The Voice." She's visiting the Bay Areas as an advocate for PhilDev's work. Google has partnered with PhilDev, a US-based non-profit organization that develops education, research and entrepreneurship programs supporting initiatives to accelerate sustainable social and economic growth in the Philippines through science, high technology and innovation.
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[@labellavita12]

I like how transparent she is. She won't sugar coat things just to make people like her and in this business there's a lot of fake celebrities. She's beautiful, very talented, smart and witty. I do have huge respect for Lea! She's truly an inspiration as an artist and as a human being! God bless this gorgeous woman!

[@ramelbatan270]

she's (lea) really a good talker..... full of sense...... i love you lea

[@lalique512]

Ms. Salonga is articulate, intelligent and smart. As one comment here, she is not one to sugar-coat anything, spin things around - she simply tells it like it is - honest, frank and truly just listening to her speak her views and opinions, is sheer joy. I can really listen to her for hours.

[@geminiville7467]

very witty and interesting Lea Salonga...

[@wig.8gles]

I love how she's really being honest and being herself. I love you Ms. Lea 🙌💃❤👌

[@kelvinsmallwood6315]

It was truly enjoyable listening to you talk about your life & experiences zo far. You have many more years ahead of you in the show business so all the best to you.

[@danteondoy9934]

seeing her like this - talking and sharing her thoughts - just doesnt get old for me... she's just as brilliant when talking as she is when singing.

[@smc0910]

It’s impressive how Lea Salonga not only has been involved in so many areas of the entertainment world, but in so many industries as well in connection with her advocacies.

[@singing4him54]

One of my favorite Lea interviews so far... :)

[@mo0nttea672]

I love this interview of Ms. Lea.

[@scvizcarra]

Hmmm another thing that is so striking about you is your simplicity, the way you keep your nails in their natural color, I just love seeing you holding microphones in your interviews and performances unblemished with nail polish/colors..

[@marsmendoza8222]

Ito ang singer na ayaw ng mga ibang pinoy...Mayabang daw,maarte,hindi biritera,etc.Etc. Pero kung icompare ,she's beyond others,,,she doesnt just stay in the entertainment industry.She tutors and writes columns too.A writer of Philippine Daily inquirer.yung boses na ayaw ng ibang pinoy kasi hindi biritera,yun rason kung bakit siya world class or international performer hindi lang sa ASAP.

[@immanbell6943]

mars claverio hahaha she is a woman of class kase and standard. Yeah oo iba kasing pinoy either wala or sobrang baba ng standards😂

[@lifelover6674]

True..

[@MRPOPOY-xl1mj]

Yup yup yup

[@loisalei]

True.❤️

[@athenstar10]

She simply know her worth😎. I noticed that most of the theater-trained actors I know, are brutally honest. They are highly technical and artistic at the same time. They focus more on their craft than what people think about them. That is why they are not that very famous. For example: Angelina vs Meryl Streep, Gald Gadot vs Emily Blunt, etc.

[@wig.8gles]

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 to the Tony, she has won the Olivier, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle and Theatre World Awards, in the field of musical theatre. She was also the first Asian to play Eponine in the musical Les Misérables on Broadway and returned to the beloved show as Fantine in the 2006 revival. Many fans of all ages recognize Lea as the singing voice of Princess Jasmine from Aladdin and Fa Mulan for Mulan and Mulan II. For her portrayal of the beloved princesses, the Walt Disney Company bestowed her with the honor of “Disney Legend”. Lea’s 2019 The Human Heart Tour saw sold-out audiences and record-breaking sales across North America, the United Kingdom and Australia. On Broadway, Lea most recently starred in the 2018 Broadway revival of Once on This Island as the Goddess of Love, Erzulie. The show’s return to the Broadway stage earned a Tony Award for “Best Revival of a Musical” and also garnered Lea and the cast a Grammy nomination for “Best Musical Theater Album.” Currently, Lea serves as a judge on the Philippines hit version of “The Voice” including the ratings juggernaut “The Voice Kids”. Mitoy Yonting, a member of Team Lea, was named the first season winner. In late 2017, Lea released “Bahaghari,” an album of traditional Filipino songs. The album serves as a reflection of all the intricate and different languages found in the Philippines and aims to help preserve the island nation’s dynamic culture. Lea also released her electrifying live album “Blurred Lines” in the spring of 2017. The album was recorded during her sold-out run at Feinstein’s / 54Below the year before. The original six-date showcase was received with overwhelming accolades from fans and critics alike. So well received in fact that Lea returned to the famed venue for a record-setting 15-show encore performance in the late spring (2017). In the fall of 2015 Lea began her critically acclaimed run as Kei Kimura in the Broadway production of Allegiance. The musical, inspired and developed by legendary actor George Takei, tells the story of a Japanese American family forced into an internment camp during World War II. Lea garnered a Craig Noel nomination for Outstanding Featured Performance in a Musical for her performance in the Old Globe production and can be heard on the show’s original cast album. Following this, Lea made a guest appearance on the hit CW television show Crazy Ex-Girlfriend. For much of 2014, Lea performed with legendary popera quartet Il Divo, accompanying them in Asia, the United States, Canada, Mexico, and all through Eastern and Western Europe on their A Musical Affair tour, celebrating the band’s 10th anniversary. She can be seen on their latest DVD and CD bearing the same name. Lea made her debut in the world of Cabaret in 2010, performing a sold out, three-week engagement at the Café Carlyle in New York City. She returned in June 2011 to delight audiences in another multi-week engagement and released a live version of her 2010 concert “Lea Salonga: The Journey So Far,” her 26th career CD, in August 2011. The CD rose to the #3 spot on iTunes Jazz Charts. In 2013, she did a third engagement titled “Back to Before,” which was lauded by the New York Times. Lea has toured all over the world, performing sold out concerts in such locations as the Sydney Opera House, 02 Arena, Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, Singapore’s Esplanade , Kuala Lumpur Convention Center, Hong Kong Cultural Center ), Queen Sirikit Convention Center in Bangkok and Carnegie Hall in New York.She was also the first artist to sell out two shows at Brigham Young University’s deJong Concert Hall in Provo, Utah since The Kings Singers in 2009. In 2010, she participated in the 25th Anniversary Concert of Les Misérables to sold out crowds at the UK’s O2 arena having appeared as Eponine in the show’s 10th Anniversary concert. She also dazzled as the hauntingly tragic Grizabella in a limited run of CATS in her hometown of Manila. Lea also teamed up with legendary Grammy winner, Patti Austin, to perform the concert series, ‘Heart and Soul,’ at venues throughout the United States. Honored with an appointment as a United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization Goodwill Ambassador in October of 2010, Lea vowed to act as an advocate for the Youth and United Nations Global Alliance initiative led by the FAO. The same year, she also joined forces with Avon as a celebrity judge for Avon Voices, alongside such artists as Fergie, Natasha Beddingfield and Diane Warren, in the first ever global, online singing talent search for women and songwriting competition for men and women. In her 40-year career, Lea has performed for six Philippine presidents (from Ferdinand Marcos to Benigno S. Aquino III), three American Presidents (George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush), and for Diana, Princess of Wales and Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. 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 went on to star in productions of Annie, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Fiddler on the Roof, The Rose Tattoo, The Sound of Music, The Goodbye Girl, Paper Moon, The Fantasticks and Rodgers and Hammerstein's Flower Drum Song on Broadway. An avid techie and gamer, Lea divides her time between Manila, Philippines with her family and the United States. All credits go to the Lea Salonga Website ---> leasalonga.com/bio

[@encouragementinformativevlogs]

Will said,

[@jonalynpimentel4437]

Lots of love from me,to you my Queen ma'am Lea Salonga,.... your are so Talented Ma'am Lea Salonga, Witty and Beautiful you are a Role Model, Love you Couch... Miss you so much,

[@claire-mj5kr]

That hugh jackman's story is killing me, she was like.... Hahaha

[@BVRacingandDrifting]

Fast forward 2020 and we enjoy watching Lea perform live via zoom, youtube, etc :)

[@publicservice6479]

Beautiful & intelligent! ☺

[@philippinelegendaries1909]

I'm aware Lea was among 50 Most Beautiful People of People's Magazine alongside Julia Roberts, Madonna, Whitney Houston and Naomi Campbell, but her brain is also soo sexy, she's intelligent, articulate and humorous. That Hugh Jackman Narrative is so funny 😂 Her talks make my mind so sharp this 1:47 in the early morning.

[@JoYsLiFey]

Lots of love from me to you My queen 👑 Lea salonga... 👑🙌😻💘

[@edithmatelske6578]

I always marvel looking at her hands.Those fingers are so beautifully long and graceful.Love you Lea whether singing or just talking.I was one of the enticed audience last night in Modesto,Ca.Brought with me an American friend and her praises about you made me so proud like I own it.After my family,you are my Filipino pride🥰❤️🇵🇭🎵🎶🇺🇸

[@hanzelgracia6710]

You go girl! Love yah!

[@princess-vx2bk]

very intelligent!

[@NT4XT]

omg She has an extremely well developed, continuously still yet exercised, 🧠. ♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️ Indeed, yes, we are Asian. Thank you Lea, for being either: Excellent, or Supra Excellent, or else, just only |fawsome| I am now forever affected by this capture of the Being: Lea Salonga. As an island now 33 years being in the US state of GA, having raised my children here, I've been Self isolated from my Sir lineage, likely for Filipinos, unfathomably. This interview does Google justice. Thanks to whomever(s} made this post. Lea "verbal" Sol an GA. For being a Global top tier doer. And for making anything, everything, and anyone in your presence, better.

[@cerysentwistle5921]

I loveher scarf

[@krisha644]

That's her favorite then she lost it after the show

[@ftnheadbud]

i like her but sometimes she gets off topic and when she goes back on topic she does a very good job at explaining which she technology she employs at work, or personal life.

[@encouragementinformativevlogs]

I love her, because she is honest. Because I am honest also. some people they don't like me, because I am straightforward

[@xxlinus15xx]

i love the fact that shes wearing rubber shoes!

[@rolansanchez7046]

she always wear rubber shoes in almost all of her interviews

[@encouragementinformativevlogs]

Simple woman,

[@amylortiz7757]

That moment when Lea Salonga talked a lot about iPhone, and GOOGLE owns Android.

[@jwy414]

Amyl Ortiz was that a nervous laugh from the host?

[@gladness1742]

Amyl Ortiz

[@echobonx4118]

Her english sounds really natural. Seemed like Leah is born and grew up in the US. It just means that she's really a smart girl

[@meredithchandler73]

English is Lea’s first language. Lea has mentioned more than once that she wasn’t really fluent in Tagalog (the national language of the Philippines) until shev got older. All official documents in the Philippines are in English. Filipino children are taught in English in school.

[@BVRacingandDrifting]

2020 Mulan brought me here. You see 5 mins of Lea fan girling over Hugh Jackman... what if?

[@nutzdxb]

iphone x

[@rositatimmermans220]

What about the person doesn't know how to used it.

[@tanron]

This is Talks at Google and she mentioned apple products? Pfffft

[@yonggrey6407]

😝 I was going to mention about that! Hahahaha!

[@meredithchandler73]

I adore Lea. She is very honest and straightforward. If they had done any research about Lea they would have known she is very loyal to Apple products. (I believe she talked about her macbook, ipad and iphone in a concert back in 2009.) Also, you can't tell me that no one in that audience has/uses Apple products just because they are at Talks at Google!

[@HolidayInGuantanamo]

Macbooks are the preferred laptop for a lot of developers, including those at Google.