DEFYING GRAVITY & Electricity - BEST LIVE VERSION! by Tony Award Winner Lea Salonga

Electricity & Defying Gravity as sung by Filipina singer Lea Salonga in her Lea Salonga... YOUR SONGS concert last December , 2009.

About the artist: Lea Salonga is best known for her musical role as Kim in Miss Saigon for which she won Olivier, Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics, and Theatre World Awards, the first to win these various international awards for a single role. She was the first Asian to play Eponine in the musical Les Misérables on Broadway and was the singing voice of Princess Jasmine from Aladdin in 1992 and Mulan for Mulan and Mulan II in 1998 and in 2004. Lea will play Grizabella in the staging of Cats in Manila. It will run for four weeks starting in July 2010, with a gala night and weekend matinees, at the Cultural Center of the Philippines.

*credits to kuangchien for this video

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[aaprato]

ITA, mdiamse! The quality of Lea's singing is so superb (and is so superior to Idina Menzel's -- as has also been described, Idina sounds like Minnie Mouse) that who really cares what key Lea uses for this song. Bravo, Lea!

[enagtiney]

Ha ha ha! How true! Check out Idina Menzel's or Lea Michelle's versions to listen to how MINNIE MOUSE would sing this song! Lol!

[percycatmill5]

It is overly true to say that I would go lesbian for Lea Salonga...

[3phoenix777]

I want to meet Ms, Lea Salonga at CCP!!!! :)

[mindbender08]

even Lea Salongga is a mezzo-soprano and her vocal range is not that high compared to Idina Menzel's, surely she prove that it is not in the high of notes that belting is actually seen to be good but actually to the delivery of the song. surely, she is a superb performer. I like her very much for that matter.

[broadwaygodess630]

Umm anyone ever consider the reason the key is changed is so that the music flows and fits better with the song before it..... If u noticed electricity turns directly into defying gravity. And furthermore there is no set key in which a song must be performed. If Lea was in the show it would be different but shes not this is a concert and she performs it amazingly if i do say so myself.... <3 U LEA!!!!!!

[dumonceauxable]

Lea is every inch an artist. One of the most beautiful voices in the world today - but I also truly love Idina Menzel. You can't compare their voices. No one can compare with Lea, but Idina is a sweetheart and very talented in her own way.

[vlipsong]

That is true talent.

[kassuuumiii]

大好き！！！

i love you!!!!!!!



[BagOfSticksFork]

Come to wicked broadway! they need you.

[themusiclibraryofkae]

Lea really defies gravity! Hats off!