Carmencita Pernett

Biography

Carmencita Pernett Sidney Pernett Trujillo (1925–2014), known as Carmencita Pernett, was a Colombian singer. Pernett sang with several orchestras in Colombia, and helped to popularise the Colombian musical genres of cumbia and porro in North America. Her 1952 recording of "Me Voy a Plato" with Los Alegres Vallenatos was the first recorded vallenato sung by a woman. She lived much of her life in Mexico, where she was known as the "Queen of the Tropics" (Spanish: Reina del Trópico).

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