💜💜💜What is a voice?
Sometimes it is more than sound.
Sometimes it becomes a doorway.
Lea Salonga, @msleasalonga through Jasmine and Mulan, you did more than give princesses their songs… you gave children who had been waiting outside the fairytale a way inside.
Before the world knew how to speak about representation, you had already turned it into sound.
Your history is filled with firsts…the first Asian woman to win a Tony Award, a Disney Legend, and now the first Filipina ever honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
But “first” is not the deepest word in your story.
The deepest word is “after.”
Who could dream after you?
Who could enter after you?
Who could walk through because you left the doorway open?
You did not merely become possible.
You made possibility contagious.
Having the blessing of singing A Whole New World beside you, I stopped being the singer and became the witness.
The world knows the gold in your voice. I had the blessing of discovering the gold in your heart.
Hollywood gave you a star…but that star did not make you light.
It simply told the ground what the sky has always known.
I love you. I honor you. Congratulations, Lea. ⭐️
Love, bran🩵🩵🩵
gwen becoming queen is one of the most quietly radical arcs in merlin. she does not marry into power because she’s chosen by destiny. she earns the respect of nearly everyone around her simply by remaining kind in a kingdom that mistakes kindness for weakness.
No one does it like Stevie Wonder. Thank you, Stevie, for bringing your legendary talent and glowing heart to Sesame Street. Happy #BlackHistoryMonth! 💛💚