YMA SUMAC - Le rossignol des Andes
Zoila Augusta Emperatriz Chávarri del Castillo, click YMA SUMAC, with an amazing four or five-octave voice, was presented to the public as an Inca princess when she recorded Voice Of the Xtabay (1950). She was actually born in 1922 in Ichocán, Cajamarca, Perú. An urban legend says that Yma Sumac had been a housewife named Amy Camus (Yma Sumac backwards) from Brooklyn. Regardless of the stories about her background, there has been no one like her before or since in the annals of popular music or so called "pop-mannerism". In 2006 she visited her native Perú and received Perú's highest honor, El Orden Del Sol Award.
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