DORIA-GAMILLA, Alice

Alice Doria-Gamilla is a composer whose works include the 1960 song "A Million Thanks to You," which was later covered by Pilita Corrales in the first Philippine recording to sell a million copies. It became the signature song of Pilita's musical television show An Evening with Pilita and was later recorded by Bobbi Martin of the Jackie Gleason Show in the United States under Coral Records. The song was recorded in seven languages.

As a new discovered composer in 1964, she was featured as a pianist playing her own compositions in The Television Filipinesque Show in Channel 3.

She received a Bachelor of Science in education, Magna Cum Laude, at the National University, Manila, in 1965. She continued her music studies at the University of Santo Tomas and majored in piano under Professor Bernardino Custodio. She further studied composition under Professor Felipe Padilla de Leon.

She has composed more than 300 published and unpublished, recorded and unrecorded songs.

She won the award for Best Drama Television Series Citation (as author-composer of the dramatic story "A Million Thanks to You") in 1964. In 1975, she was featured as one of the four selected women composers at the "Tinig ng Kababaihan" concert.