Who is the best singer u know
By manohar1310
@manohar1310 (364)
India
December 13, 2006 9:39am CST
my singer is ............sorry all r best for me but what is your choice
3 responses
@smbilalshah (1316)
• Pakistan
13 Dec 06
my fav pakistani singer is well Meekal hasan
internationally i guess its enrique
@sweetrala (1436)
• Philippines
13 Dec 06
The best singer for me is no other than Lea Salonga!!!
Im so proud to be a Filipino because of her.
Here's some info about Lea:Lea Salonga-Chien (born on February 22, 1971 in Manila) is a Tony Award-winning actress from the Philippines who achieved international recognition for her portrayal of Kim, the lead role in the musical Miss Saigon. She is the first Asian to play Eponine in the musical Les Misérables on broadway. She is of Filipino descent.
Salonga's biggest breakthrough came when she was selected to play the leading role of Kim in the musical Miss Saigon in 1989. The producers of the show scoured many Asian countries looking for a relatively unknown actress for the lead role of this major production. For her audition, Salonga chose to sing Boublil and Schönberg's " On My Own" from "Les Miserables," and was later made to sing "Sun and Moon" to test her voice quality's compatibility with the songs in the musical. The members of the panel were "bowled over" by Salonga's rendition of the songs. After Salonga and another actress (Monique Wilson) were tested with songs from the musical, Salonga was offered the role.
For her performance, Salonga was given the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Musical for the 1989/1990 season. From its original London home, Miss Saigon moved to Broadway in 1991. Salonga subsequently garnered the Tony, Drama Desk, and Outer Critics Circle Awards for the same role.
In 1993, Salonga played the role of street waif Eponine in the Broadway production of Les Misérables, then flew to Los Angeles to perform the song "A Whole New World" (of Disney's Aladdin) at the 65th Annual Academy Awards, where the song won an Oscar. (Salonga sang the song in the movie as the singing voice of Princess Jasmine.) In the same year she released her self-titled international debut album with Atlantic Records, which sold slowly in the USA but went platinum in the Philippines and sold 3 million copies worldwide.
On November 7, 2005, Salonga performed with a 26-piece ensemble to a sold out crowd of 2,804 at the "Isaac Stern Hall," the Main Hall in New York's prestigious Carnegie Hall for the benefit of Diverse City Theater Company. Salonga is only the third Filipino solo artist to perform at the venue (the first was Regine Velasquez followed by Jose Mari Chan).
Salonga's Disney film credits include the singing voice of Princess Jasmine for Aladdin (1992), and Fa Mulan for Mulan (1998), as well as the voice of Mrs. Kusakabe (Satsuki and Mei's mother) in Disney's 2005 English dub of Hayao Miyazaki's My Neighbor Totoro.
Salonga performed three times for U.S. Presidents (she was invited twice to the White House and the other one was on President Bush's state visit to the Philippines) and once for Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II. In the field of theater, no other Filipino has achieved greater international recognition than Salonga. She is the only one to ever win a Tony.
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