Lea Salonga

Filipino singer and actress

Follow Lea Salonga on Notably News to receive short updates to your email — rarely!

2025 Tatler Asia recognized Salonga as 'an artist who carried her country's name on international marquees before it became commonplace to do so'.
2025 Appeared on 'Finding Your Roots', guest-starred on 'The Cleaning Lady', and provided the singing voice for Celine in 'KPop Demon Hunters'.
2025 Appeared on Finding Your Roots and guest-starred on The Cleaning Lady.
2025 Set to star in the upcoming short film The Vale – Origins and launch the North American leg of the Stage, Screen & Everything In Between tour in the fall.
September 2025 Launched the North American leg of the Stage, Screen & Everything In Between concert tour.
August 2025 Returned to the Philippines to reprise her role as The Witch in Into the Woods, starring alongside Arielle Jacobs.
July 3 2025 Announced to receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
2025 Set to appear in 'KPop Demon Hunters'.
2025 Scheduled to appear in the stage production of 'Into the Woods'.
May 2025 Will be honored with the Award for Distinguished Achievement in Musical Theater at the 91st Annual Drama League Awards.
April 2025 Featured in People magazine, publicly sharing her experience of raising her transmasculine son Nic and emphasizing the importance of unconditional love and support.
April 2025 Made a guest star appearance on the crime drama series The Cleaning Lady.
March 2025 Began reprising performances in Stephen Sondheim's Old Friends at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre.
March 2025 Announced as a special guest at Harmony, the annual gala of the New York City Gay Men's Chorus, where she presented the Gary Miller Award to George Takei for his LGBTQ activism.
January 2025 Made a guest appearance on an episode of Finding Your Roots.
January 2025 Supported her son Nic, who began taking testosterone after realizing his transmasculine identity at age 14.
January 2025 Salonga made a guest appearance on an episode of Finding Your Roots.
2024 Reprised her role in 'Pretty Little Liars: Summer School' and launched the European leg of the Stage, Screen & Everything In Between concert tour.
2024 Performed with The Tabernacle Choir at the SM Mall of Asia Arena
2024 Returned to 'Pretty Little Liars'
2024 Performed with The Tabernacle Choir at the SM Mall of Asia Arena and reprised her role in Pretty Little Liars: Summer School.
2024 Continued starring in the West End production of Stephen Sondheim's Old Friends.
2024 Scheduled to perform at the 98th Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade and have a recurring role in Pretty Little Liars: Summer School.
December 2024 Embarked on the Sounding Joy: The Holiday Tour in the United States, including a concert with the Boston Pops at Symphony Hall in Boston.
November 2024 Released Sounding Joy, her first holiday album in over two decades, and launched the Asian leg of the Stage, Screen & Everything In Between concert tour.
November 2024 Released Sounding Joy, her first holiday album in over two decades, and launched the Asian leg of the Stage, Screen & Everything In Between concert tour. Performed on the Sesame Street float at the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.
November 2024 Released Sounding Joy, her first holiday album in over two decades, performed on the Sesame Street float at the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, and embarked on the Sounding Joy: The Holiday Tour in the United States.
November 1 2024 Released Sounding Joy, her first holiday album in over two decades.
October 2024 Starred in the Filipino production of 'Request sa Radyo' (Wunschkonzert) at the Samsung Performing Arts Center in Manila, alternating the lead role with Dolly de Leon.
September 2024 Featured as a wax figure in the Madame Tussauds Singapore museum's Music Zone, wearing a blue 'workhouse gown' by Filipino designer Rajo Laurel.
June 2024 Salonga publicly expressed support for her child Nic, who came out as transmasculine at age 14.
June 2024 Appeared in the audio fiction series Does This Murder Make Me Look Gay?! and began her third U.K. concert tour, Stage, Screen & Everything In Between.
May 2024 Reprised her role as Elodie in Pretty Little Liars: Summer School.
2023 Performed concerts across the United States, appeared at Broadway Backwards at the New Amsterdam Theatre, and sang at the White House for Presidents Joe Biden and Yoon Suk Yeol.
2023 Performed at The Asian American Foundation's Heritage Month Summit and Celebration.
2023 Recognized by Gold House with the Gold Legend Honor.
2023 Recorded Christmas songs with The Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square for the 'Season of Light' album in the USA
2023 Presented at the Laurence Olivier Awards on ITV and appeared in a documentary special short film 'Who I Am Inside' on Hulu.
2023 Lea Salonga voiced Mulan in the Disney short film Once Upon a Studio
2023 Salonga performed in the original West End production of 'Stephen Sondheim's Old Friends' at Gielgud Theatre.
July 2023 Performed as Aurora Aquino in the original Broadway production of Here Lies Love.
April 26 2023 Performed for U.S. President Joe Biden, South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol, and other world leaders at a White House state dinner.
April 2 2023 Presented at the 2023 Laurence Olivier Awards.
March 13 2023 Performed at the annual Broadway Backwards event at the New Amsterdam Theatre.
2022 First appearance in 'Pretty Little Liars'
2022 Narrated an episode of American Experience, performed at the National Memorial Day Concert, and played a main role as Elodie Honrada in 8 episodes of Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin on Max.
December 15 2022 Performed with The Tabernacle Choir as featured guest artist in a series of Christmas concerts in Salt Lake City, Utah.
October 2022 Featured on Pentatonix's album Holidays Around the World.
October 27 2022 Featured on Pentatonix's cover of Jose Mari Chan's 'Christmas In Our Hearts' in their Christmas album.
September 2022 Recognized by TIME magazine at the TIME100 Impact Awards as a 'life-long role model for children of color'.

We are only showing the most recent entries for this topic.

This contents of the box above is based on material from the Wikipedia articles Lea Salonga discography, Lea Salonga & Lea Salonga on screen and stage, which are released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

See Also