Lucía Pulido (born 1962) is a Colombian singer who since 1986 has sung traditional music such as cumbia, bullerengue and joropos.
In the 1980s, she began her professional career singing and recording duos with Iván Benavides, comprising traditional compositions and Latin jazz.
[4][5] In 2000, she received a grant from the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Foundation and in 2007 and 2008 she was an artist in residence in Krems, Austria.
[2] By 2010, she was involved in various projects in New York and Latin America, including the Lucia Pulido Ensemble and experimental music based on traditional songs together with the Argentine guitarist Fernando Tarrés.
[7] In 2006, the New York Times commented, “Ms Pulido holds on to the rawness of the original melodies while giving them a sophisticated new context”.