La Calandria

Puerto Rican singer. A native of the town of San Lorenzo. Arguably, she is among the femenine voices the greatest exponent of Puerto Rican country music, with her registry of chords and arpeggios from her throat, and a pure jíbaro sentiment in her mountain music. Before producing her earliest recordings, she sang in duo with her sister when they were known as the Reyes Sisters (Las Hermanas Reyes). Ernestina began her fame recording with Chuito El De Bayamón and the Conjunto Tipico Ladi in 1947 for the RCA Victor label. > For the Peruvian folk singer, use La Calandria Peruana