Pilita Corrales

Dubbed as “Asia’s Queen of Songs”, Pilita Corrales was born in Manila on August 22, 1939. After finishing her studies at the St. Theresa’s College in Baguio, she went to Spain to enroll in a finishing school. She returned in the country to pursue a career in music, which started when she ran a radio program La Taverna over DZPI where she sang Spanish songs and played the guitar. She performed regularly in stage shows at the Manila Grand Opera House. During her international stints, she has performed with such foreign stars as Sammy Davis Jr., the Beatles, Bob Hope, Pat Boone, Frank Sinatra and Julie Andrews. She also appeared in movies, most of them musicals, her first being a lead role in the 1968 film Miss Wawaw, and was followed by 11 more movies for the next two years. In 1990, she received a Merit Award from the FAMAS Awards. A year later, he was given a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Philippine Association of the Record Industry for bringing Filipino musical artistry to international audience.