Ricardo Palmerín Pavía, born in Tekax, Yucatán, in 1887, was one of the founding composers of the trova yucateca and a central figure in the Yucatecan bambuco. He is best remembered for 'Peregrina' (1923), set to a poem by Luis Rosado Vega and commissioned by the state's governor for the American journalist Alma Reed, which became one of the tradition's signature pieces. Working in refined, poetry-set melody until his death in 1944, Palmerín helped establish the intimate regional idiom that later Yucatecan composers, most famously Armando Manzanero, would carry into the bolero era.

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