"The Golden voice" of the Amazon Pedro Bernal Méndez


teacher of the Amazon of Colombia. He was born on June 29, 1960 in Leticia and very child known as the "Golden voice" of the Amazon. Singer and composer of several representative works of regional folklore that has represented the Amazon in different competitions at national and international level.One of the principal music theme is * Mariquinha *, a composition inspired by a popular character of Leticia in the 1940s, of Brazilian origin. It is part of the popular music of the region and is identified with the rhythm of paseata, mixture of rhythms of the frontier.