Petrona Martinez is one of the most important afro American artists in Caribbean Colombia. She learned the Bullerengueras in an spontaneous manner, very early in her life. All the songs are composed by her. In all of them there is a piece of , hard and difficult life but full of magic.

Petrona knows the prayers to give farewell to the dead and she works as a midwife to welcome the new born.

In 1999, then 62 years old, she became Colombia's maximum representative of pure folk music. The album " Le Bullerengue" that contains a sample of wake songs was published by the French label Ocora. Later was published in Colombia " La vida vale la pena", where the life of a peasant dedicated to the extraction of sand of the stream to be able to subsist is told. All this with a deep rhythm, contagious and vital.

Le Bullerengue (Ocora C 560129, 1998)

Mi Tambolero (Factoria Autor, 2004)

Bonito que canta (Factoria Autor)