The year was 1991 and Lea Salonga already had won a Tony for her performance as the lead character in Miss Saigon - but she was still struggling to find another role. "My agent would be submitting me for auditions, [but people were still] like 'No, we won't see her because she's Asian. They were unable to imagine someone like me playing [those] roles," Salonga told the BBC. But today it's that scenario that feels unimaginable, in an era when acts like BTS and Blackpink are dominating Billboard

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