World-renowned Filipino musical theater artist Lea Salonga, the first Asian woman to win a Tony Award in 1991 for her star turn in Miss Saigon, is one of the recipients of the TIME100 Impact Awards, to be handed out on 2 October at the National Gallery in Singapore.

A partnership with the Singapore Economic Development Board and Singapore Tourism Board, the TIME100 Impact Awards will follow the inaugural TIME100 Leadership Forum on the same date.

Aside from Salonga, the recipients include Alia Bhatt, actor and producer; Gregory L. Robinson, former James Webb Space Telescope Program director; and Dr. Pardis Sabeti, computational geneticist.

Daily Tribune is reprinting the profile writeup on Salonga, written by Santa Mansoor, on time.com:

"Lea Salonga remembers hearing the iconic Cinderella song, 'A Dream is a Wish Your Heart Makes,' for the first time at five years old. "It etched itself in my mind," she says. Two decades later, Salonga became the singing voice for two iconic Disney princesses: Jasmine and Mulan. 'Now I get to be that for someone else,' she remembers thinking. Her Filipina heritage made playing Mulan especially meaningful. 'All of a sudden, the people that look like me had a princess,' Salonga says. 'She brings honor to herself and to her family… and she does it with grace. What's more, she's one of the only princesses that doesn't end the movie with a grand wedding.'

"In her four-decade, award-winning career as an actress and singer, Salonga has emerged as not only a Disney and Broadway icon, but a role model for children of color. Salonga prides herself on promoting representation in Hollywood and on Broadway, showing underrepresented groups that their stories matter."