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Her new comeback International cd "The Journey So Far" is now available in iTunes and will drop in stores August 9, 2011.
On November 7, 2005 she sold out Carnegie Hall in an all new show directed by Richard Jay-Alexander (Bette Midler’s Kiss My Brass tour; Barbra Streisand Timeless Farewell tour) and, just prior to that, launched her first major U.S. city concert tour with performances in San Francisco, Atlantic City, Honolulu, Maui, Chicago, Norfolk, Washington, D.C. and Los Angeles, grossing over one million dollars in ticket sales.
Salonga gained international stardom for her award-winning lead role as Kim on Broadway in the 1991 production of Miss Saigon. She not only won a Tony Award for “Outstanding Performance by an Leading Actress in a Musical,” but also the Outer Critics Circle Award, the Drama Desk Award and the Laurence Olivier Award (in London where Miss Saigon originated). Her vast array of theater credits also include Les Miserables as Eponine, the Witch in Into The Woods, Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady, The Goodbye Girl, They’re Playing Our Song, Grease, The Fantasticks, Paper Moon, The Bad Seed, The Sound of Music and Annie.
In Fall 2002, Salonga made another splash on Broadway starring in the hit revival of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammersteins’s Flower Drum Song, with a re-imagined book by David Henry Hwang, earning her another Tony nomination as Outstanding Leading Actress in a Musical.
In March 2007, Lea returned to Broadway to star as Fantine in the 2006 revival of Les Miserables and in July 08 she’ll embark on a 39-week tour of Asia and the Philippines starring in Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella.
A bona fide “Disney Princess”, Salonga can be heard on screen as the singing voice of Princess Jasmine in Disney’s blockbuster smash Aladdin. In a recent article in Southwest Magazine entitled the “50 Greatest Movie Soundtracks,” Aladdin was ranked #17 with specific note made of Miss Salonga’s version of “A Whole New World.” She is also the singing voice of Mulan in Mulan and Mulan 2.
She can be heard on the original cast recordings of Miss Saigon, Flower Drum Song (Broadway Revival), The King and I (with Julie Andrews and Ben Kingsley), The Nutcracker, Hey, Mr. Producer! and the Les Miserables 10th Anniversary Concert. Lea has recorded over a dozen solo CD’s including Lea Salonga, Lea…In Love, By Heart, Songs from the Screen, Songs From Home, Lea…Live!, Lea Salonga: The Broadway Concert and, most recently Inspired.
Salonga has also made several notable appearances on such television shows as ER, As The World Turns, Hey, Mr. Producer and Russell Watson: The Voice for PBS and the PBS special Les Miserables 10th Anniversary Concert.
Lea is originally from the Philippines and she currently maintains residences in New York, Los Angeles and Manila. Her proudest production to date is her daughter Nicole, born in May 06.
On My Own
Lea Salonga Lyrics
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Without a home, without a friend, without a face to say hello to
But now the night is near
Now I can make-believe he's here
Sometimes I walk alone at night when everybody else is sleeping
I think of him and then I'm happy with the company I'm keeping
The city goes to bedAnd I can live inside my head
On my own, pretending he's beside me
All alone, I walk with him 'til morning
Without him, I feel his arms around me
And when I lose my way, I close my eyes and he has found me
In the rain the pavement shines like silver
All the lights are misty in the river
In the darkness, the trees are full of starlight
But all I see is him and me forever and forever
And I know it's only in my mind
That I'm talking to myself and not to him
And although I know that he is blind
Still I say there's a way for us
I love him, but when the night is over
He is gone, the river's just a river
Without him, the world around me changes
The trees are bare and everywhere the streets are full of strangers
I love him, but everyday I'm learning
All my life I've only been pretending
Without me, his world will go on turning
A world that's full of happiness that I have never known
I love him
I love him
I love him
But only on my own
The song "On My Own" by Lea Salonga is a beautiful and poignant ballad about unrequited love and heartbreak. The singer is walking alone through the city streets, pretending that the person she loves is by her side. She closes her eyes and imagines his arms around her, but when she opens her eyes, she's all alone. She sees the world around her as full of strangers, and her love as something she can only experience when she's solitary. She knows that her love is unrequited and that the person she longs for is gone, but she still clings to a sliver of hope that there might be a way for them to be together.
The singer's longing is expressed through an extended metaphor, as she describes the world around her. The pavement shines like silver in the rain and the lights are misty in the river. In the darkness, the trees are full of starlight, and all she can see is her beloved and herself together, forever. But she knows that it's all in her mind, that she's only talking to herself and not to him. She knows that he is blind to her love, and that their relationship can never be. But still, she loves him and will continue to love him, even though it can only be "on her own."
Line by Line Meaning
On my own, pretending he's beside me
I am alone but I imagine that he is with me
All alone, I walk with him 'til morning
I am by myself but I walk with him until dawn
Without him, I feel his arms around me
Even without him physically present, I can still feel him hugging me
And when I lose my way, I close my eyes and he has found me
Whenever I feel lost, I close my eyes and imagine that he has come to rescue me
In the rain the pavement shines like silver
When it rains, the pavement reflects like silver
All the lights are misty in the river
The lights of the city are blurry in the river's reflection
In the darkness, the trees are full of starlight
During the night, the trees are glowing with starlight
And all I see is him and me forever and forever
I can only see him and me together forever in my mind
And I know it's only in my mind
I am aware that it's just my imagination
That I'm talking to myself and not to him
I am actually conversing with myself, not with him
And although I know that he is blind
I understand that he can't see the love I have for him
Still I say there's a way for us
Despite the odds, I still believe we could be together
I love him, but when the night is over
I love him, but once the night is gone, so is he
He is gone, the river's just a river
Once he's gone, everything returns to how it was before and the river is just a river
Without him, the world around me changes
My surroundings are different when he's not with me
The trees are bare and everywhere the streets are full of strangers
When he's not there, everything looks and feels lifeless and unfamiliar
I love him, but everyday I'm learning
Even though I love him, I am starting to understand that we may not be together
All my life I've only been pretending
My entire life has just been wishful thinking, pretending that he's actually there with me
Without me, his world will go on turning
Even if I'm not there, his world will continue to turn and things will go on without me
The world is full of happiness that I have never known
There are so many things that I have never experienced or known in this world
I love him
I love him
I love him
I love him
I love him
I love him
But only on my own
But unfortunately, I only love him in my own imagination
Lyrics © Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
Written by: Herbert Kretzmer, Jean Marc Natel, Claude-Michel Schonberg, Alain Albert Boublil, John Caird, Trevor Robert Nunn
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@trishamist6166
Her pronunciation is clearer than the water...
@Alicia-go8lw
I don't get why everyone praises her pronunciation...it's not that hard to pronounce words clearly, especially when singing??
@chizomessussylittlebtch3941
Evie when most people sing this song its hard to understand what they are saying for some odd reason
@jg583
@@Alicia-go8lw say that to ms grande
@user-u64251o
@@Alicia-go8lw ms perfect english is not her first language, and singing like this with a clear pronounciation is truly amazing.
@aceacemania
@@Alicia-go8lw because eskeetit skrrtskrrt brap?
@johncasciani
The Eponine of all Eponines.
@frencinnelee
indeed, she IS ! =)
@gelineavenir5905
agree, the best of all! Her voice is so clear. She turns everything to gold!
@frencinnelee
The VERY FIRST ASIAN to be cast in a strictlyCaucasian show......and landed as one of the DREAMCAST performers as picked by the producers themselves.....so it is definitely the VOICE ! SHE OWNS THE SONG AND NOBODY CAN EVER BE BETTER THAN HER......just argue with the producers....LOLS!