Amelia Cabeza de Pelayo Patterson (16 July 1912 – 28 December 2019)[1] was an Argentine composer, singer, poet, and teacher responsible for writing the anthem of the Province of Salta.

[1] After finishing high school, Patterson attended the Clementi Music School[1] and graduated three years later as a music teacher specializing in the violin, according to the diploma awarded her by Argentina's Ministry of Education.

When she resigned from the Peter Pan school, she was given a gold medal for writing a version of The Adventures of Peter Pan, which had been presented twice consecutively at the Victoria Theater in Salta and at the Miter Theaters in San Salvador de Jujuy and San Miguel de Tucumán.

Over the next decade, she would herself become a private tutor for the piano, violin, guitar, and singing.

She was the Director of the Polyphonic Choir of Salta, which in 1962 gave 14 public and radio recitals.