"La Pollera Colorá" is a Colombian cumbia song.
It was composed in 1960 as an instrumental by clarinetist Juan Madera Castro.
Singer-songwriter Wilson Choperena composed the lyrics in 1962.
[1][2][3] It has been rated as one of the best Colombian songs of all time by multiple media sources: Ownership of the rights to the song was later subject of legal proceedings.
Juan Madera Castro accused Choperena of appropriating the song's rights; the latter was sentenced, in 2010, to 24 months in prison and ordered to pay a fine of more than 10 million Colombian pesos.