Lea Salonga is a popular singer, Broadway actor, and voiceover artist (who has voiced two Disney movie princesses), and a native of the Philippines. On this album she presents a program of traditional Philippino songs, drawn from the country’s three major cultural regions and sung in six of the country’s many languages — several of them currently endangered. The arrangements are minimal (mostly just voice and guitar or voice and piano), and Salonga’s voice is gorgeous. Any library collecting in ethnomusicology or world music traditions should snap this one up immediately.