Lea (LAY-uh) is Filipino and this song always hits #1 in the Philippines every Christmas season because it is an older song written by another Filipino. She was in L.A. and they got to meet her. Scott sang the verse with her in person. They were very humbled by her.
Fun fact Lea Salonga was the singing voice of Mulan. She has such a beautiful voice! Fits right in with PTX. I've seen PTX in concert twice now. They're great! Pentatonic from OH!
Lea Salonga (pronounced LAY-ah Sah-LONG-ah) is 51 years old (looks great, right?) and the singing voice of 2 Disney princesses: Jasmine (“A Whole New World”) and Mulan (“Reflection”). She is also known for her musical theater work and being the original lead in MISS SAIGON in London (1989) and on Broadway (1991) and winning all the major theater awards. This is one of the most popular Christmas songs from the Philippines (where Lea is from). Jose Mari Chan wrote it and wanted Lea to record it but she was on a different record label and couldn’t. He recorded it with his daughter in 1990 and it gets played throughout the holiday season every year (and in the Philippines they begin playing Christmas music in September). Pentatonix didn’t know Lea was supposed to originally record the song when they asked her to do this - it was a happy coincidence.
Pentatonix members have also done their own side projects. Here are some songs to react to when you want to look from a little PTX sidepath. RISE (Katy Perry Cover) by SUPERFRUIT, Mary Lambert, Brian Justin Crum, Mario Jose ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-U85U3dPuiR4.html kirstin - Break A Little (Official Video) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-hg8lxtKSMQ0.html Avi Kaplan Change on the Rise ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-382BTxLNrow.html "LOST ON YOU" by Scott Hoying & Mario Jose (LP x HANS ZIMMER Cover) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-_vaI7pOjc0M.html MITCH GRASSI - YOUR POWER by BILLIE ELISH (music cover) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-0mSMqkBArxk.html Kevin Olusola - Renegade ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-gouiY85kD2o.html Scott Hoying - Mars [Official Video] ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-vjV-tMsVtzQ.html Frozen Medley - Superfruit ft Kirstin Maldonado ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-tA53EsnzlIg.html GUY.EXE by SUPERFRUIT ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-r2Kh_XMIDPU.html
