Lea Salonga is the half-sister of Philip Salonga, a drug user and peddler who was arrested in 2016 after being caught in the act selling Ecstasy pills.
Her previous claim to fame was as a Filipina singer and actress who honed her skills as a child star in Manila before starring in London and Broadway musicals and providing her voice to Disney animated features. She won a Tony Award in 1991 for her role as Kim in the musical Miss Saigon.
Full name: Maria Lea Carmen Imutan Salonga
Birthday: February 22, 1971
Birthplace: Philippines
Husband: Robert Charles Chien, since 2004
Daughter: Nicole Beverly, born May 16, 2006
TRIVIA
First album: Small Voice (1981) – she was only 10 years old when it turned gold
Lea Salonga is the singing voice of Jasmine in Aladdin (1992) and of Fa Mulan in Mulan (1998) and Mulan II (2004)
Received the Presidential Award of Merit from President Corazon Aquino in 1990
Played Eponine in the London production of Les Miserables
Met her husband while doing Flower Drum Song in Los Angeles in 2002
Not related to former Senator Jovito Salonga
Lived the first six years of her childhood in Angeles City before moving to Manila
Daughter is named after mother-in-law Beverly Chien
Has revealed her true colors on Twitter as an elitist critic of Senator Manny Pacquiao and of the popular AlDub social-media phenomenon
