Malea Emma Tjandrawidjaja

Malea Emma Tjandrawidjaja is an Indonesian American actress who currently lives in Los Angeles with her parents and older brother, Mark Andrew Tjandrawidjaja. She is known as a singing sensation after her National Anthem video went viral in 2018. Her acting career started when she was 4 and she has been in international and national commercials such as Amazon, Lenovo, Kiehl's and Jeep. She also guest starred in Disney Channel shows Coop and Cami Ask the World (2018) and Raven's Home (2017). She loves singing since she was 1 year old and has won several singing competitions. She had her singing debut in Carnegie Hall, New York, in July 2017 at the age of 5 and performed as Molly in the star studded Annie musical at the Hollywood Bowl in July 2018. Her performance at the Hollywood Bowl gained great reviews from media such as LA Times, Times Squares Chronicles and Broadway World. In September 2018, her singing video of national anthem in LA Galaxy game went viral and was viewed hundreds of millions of times. She has become an overnight sensation and made various TV appearances. She sang And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going with Tony and Grammy awards winner, Jennifer Holliday, on Good Morning America and was invited to meet Christina Aguilera backstage before her Liberation concert at the Radio City Music Hall, New York. She was also invited to audition on American Idol and was awarded with golden ticket even though she was too young to compete. She is currently attending Mandarin Immersion Elementary School which makes her trilingual: English, Indonesian and Mandarin.