Patricia Teherán Romero (10 June 1969 Cartagena de Indias – 19 January 1995 Loma de Arena, Santa Catalina)[1] was a Colombian singer and composer, considered the most important female vocalist in the history of vallenato.

[2][3][4][5] In 1988, she was discovered by Graciela Ceballos, who invited her to be part of a new musical project consisting only of women, which became known as Las Musas del Vallenato,[6][7] with whom she recorded three LPs.

The last of these, called Explosivas y Sexys, marked the end of her collaboration with Las Musas and the beginning of a new project called Las Diosas del Vallenato.

[8] Patricia Teherán composed her first song, titled "Dueño de mi pasión", for the album Con aroma de mujer.

In 1995, the car that she was riding in from Barranquilla to Cartagena after signing the participation of the Goddesses of Vallenato in the Carnival of Barranquilla, when at 4:30 in the afternoon, at Loma de Arena, one of the tires exploded and the vehicle moving at high speed lost control, resulting in the vehicle overturning.