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For the closing of our series Genias in Music, celebrating the contributions of women in their fields, we go to Colombia, where Petrona Mart\xednez became one of the most important Black singers in the country\u2019s modern history.

She\u2019s known as \u201cthe queen of bullerengue\u201d, an ancestral music tradition that goes back to times of slavery in the Colombian Caribbean Coast. But it took many years for Petrona Mart\xednez to get recognized as an artist. She dealt with isolation, poverty and invisibility as a Black woman from rural Colombia. Latino USA Producers Patricia Sulbar\xe1n and Jeanne Montalvo tell the story of this music legend.