I'm pretty sure in original version it's a woman. I can't hear but I am a huge Lion King fan. It got to be woman since that song won awards for being best song and I recall that it was a woman.
Anyhow, that movie got a few errors with closed captioning and SDH which annoys me a lot especially since it was a DVD not regular videotape. They got 10 years to perfect the sentences yet they still make mistakes. I am sick of seeing stuff like that.
