Lea Salonga on the satisfaction she gets from singing, acting

As much an OPM icon (“Bakit Labis kitang Mahal,” “If Only”) as she is a theater legend, we asked Lea Salonga to describe how different the satisfaction she gets from acting compared to singing—which is something she can do with her eyes closed.

“Both feed my emotions,” she explained. “I mean, they’re both just channels. They just feel like pathways through which I can express what’s happening or whatever internal life happens to be going on.

“They’re different but, at the same time, with singing, there needs to be an element of acting in order to really get those emotions out. I mean, it can’t just be singing to sound pretty—that’s not interesting.

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