FAREWELL PILITA

Pilita Corrales was “Asia’s Queen of Songs.” Born to a Spanish father and Filippina mother, Corrales went to school in the Philippines to study music and then to Australia to become a star. From the early ’60s she has starred in two dozen movie musicals, performed around the world with icons like Sammy David Jr. and recorded a hundred albums in several Spanish, English, Tagalog and Cebuano. Corrales has earned almost every musical honor the Philippines has to offer, though in 2006 she may have received her greatest award — she became one of the judges of Philippine Idol. Pilita Corrales passed away in April 2025. The Philippines, Australia and, all of us, miss her.