Pedro Bernal
Pedro Bernal | |
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| Also known as | Golden Voice of the Amazon |
| Born | Pedro Bernal Méndez 1960 (age 65–66) Leticia, Colombia |
| Genres | música popular amazonense |
Pedro Bernal Méndez[a] (born 1960) is a Colombian songwriter, singer, and researcher of Amazonian music. He composes in the genre of música popular amazonense (Spanish for "Amazonian popular music"), which is influenced by the music of Brazil, Peru, and Colombia, whose borders meet in his hometown of Leticia.
Biography
Pedro Bernal Méndez was born in 1960 in Leticia, in the Colombian department of Amazonas.[1] His mother was from Brazil, and his father was from the coastal Colombian department of Nariño.[2]
Bernal is a songwriter, singer, and researcher of Amazonian music.[1] He is known as the "golden voice of the Amazon" (Spanish: la voz de oro del Amazonas).[1] He composes in the style of música popular amazonense (Spanish for "Amazonian popular music"), a term coined by music researcher Alfonso Dávila Ribeiro that is reminiscent of the Paisa genre of música popular.[1][3] The genre draws from the music of Brazil, Peru, and Colombia, whose borders meet at the Tres Fronteras in Leticia.[2] Bernal has said that people from Leticia live as if there is no border,[2] and that his nationality is Amazonian.[4]: 292
Bernal is particularly known for his song "Mariquiña" (or "Mariquinha"), which Radio Nacional de Colombia describes as "a portrait of Amazonian women, their environment and their customs",[5]: q and which he performed at the third Concurso de Intérpretes de Música Colombiana in Bogotá in 1987.[6] Other notable songs written by Bernal are "La Otra Bonanza" and "Leticia Linda".[2]
Notes
- ^ In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Bernal and the second or maternal family name is Méndez.
References
- ^ a b c d Elsa Garzón (23 November 2022), "Música popular amazonense en el Pirarucú de Oro" [Popular Amazonian music at the Pirarucú de Oro], Señal Memoria (in Spanish), Radio Televisión Nacional de Colombia, retrieved 17 October 2025
- ^ a b c d Carlos Solano (25 July 2008), "Pedro Bernal, el cantor del Amazonas" [Pedro Bernal, the singer of the Amazon], El Tiempo (in Spanish), retrieved 17 October 2025
- ^ Andrés Cepeda (5 February 2020), "Leticia: Un canto a los misterios del Amazonas" [Leticia: An ode to the mysteries of the Amazon], El Colombiano (in Spanish), retrieved 17 October 2025
- ^ Daniel Esteban Unigarro (2012). ""Alegria sin fronteras" entre Brasil, Colombia y Peru: de como "tres paises hermanos" celebran el nacionalismo". Maguaré (in Spanish). 26 (1). Universidad Nacional de Colombia: 263–297. ISSN 2256-5752. ProQuest 1676786422.
- ^ "Diana Tovar, Pedro Bernal y Orquesta La Pascasia en Estrenos de la semana" [Diana Tovar, Pedro Bernal and Orquesta La Pascasia in this week's new releases], Radio Nacional de Colombia (in Spanish), 11 July 2023, retrieved 17 October 2025
- ^ Luis Carlos Rodríguez (1999). "Bernal, Pedro". In Emilio Casares Rodicio (ed.). Diccionario de la Música Española e Hispanoamericana (in Spanish). Vol. 2: Baa – Cancio. Sociedad General de Autores y Editores. p. 400. ISBN 84-8048-305-9.
External links
- Pedro Bernal Méndez discography at Discogs