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  • ES DE PERU, BELLA VOZ

  • Yma Sumac was a veritable miracle. And her voice is an exotic and unique one at the same time.

  • ok guys. i understand why she is so amazing.

    she is from the inca royalty.

    obviously

  • THERE IS NO OTHER VOICE THAT EVER EXISTED LIKE HERS IN THE HISTORY OF MANKIND, BECAUSE SHE IS NATURE MANIFESTED IN THE FLESH.

  • With love to you my dear princess...Lord wiraqocha saves you, wiñaypaq

    Sumac, sumac karqanki kay pachakausaypi.

  • es peruana -pero es del cuzco

  • @amilcarcruzadoruiz no es cusqueña sus raices vienen de Ichocan Cajamarca lejos del Cuzco :D

  • @amilcarcruzadoruiz del cuzco? es de cajamarca

  • Maravillosa voz, increible! From Puerto Rico

  • @Eliusalmo1 she is from Peru cajamarca beutifull voice !!!!!

  • nunca ha habido otra artista como ella dejo un gran tesoro espero las generasiones que vengan sepan apreciar para ir mas lejos

  • DIOS MIO ES IMPRESIONANTE ESCUCHAR ESTA CANCION, ERA VERDADERAMENTE UNA PRINCESA INCA Y SU VOZ ERA TAN MARAVILLOSA COMO EL MISMO MACCHU PICCHU CREO QUE HAY EN SU REGISTRO VOCAL LA REMINISCENCIA DE UN PASADO GRANDIOSO

  • PERFECT

  • which year is it?

  • 5 octaves voice .. ooo my goodness .

  • an angel....

  • I have this title in a dark-red shellac 78rpm record.  The other side is "Virgin of the sun God" -- Great Singer. One of my favourites...

  • pensé ke esta canción era parte de la pachamama ke sale en la película el secreto de los incas. Seguro ke se llama taita inti??

  • marquitorayadito: No me entendiste. Para saber que es luz, necesitas saber qué es oscuro. Eso es lo que dije. Al buen entendedor pocas palabras

  • @operador45 de esta ultima ni la menciones, porque da verguenza a los peruanos

  • uauuuuuu parece que yo he vivido en esos tiempos tengo 20 años y me encanta lastima que ya no esta connosotros! tu sabes Yma el peru y el mundo te ama!!

  • Amazing!

  • te amo

  • Es como transportarse a una dimensión desconocida...

    Divina mujer...

  • She is absolutely amazing! One of my favourite singers!

  • She is one of a kind!

  • descansa en paz yuma sumac princesa delos inkas ...te extrañamos uvieras vivido mas te queremosss ...saludos ...viva el peru.

  • efteling holland

  • 0:45-0:50 was phenomenal! sounds like a bird was trpped in her throat..hahaha..simply amazing..

  • lol

  • Que orgulllo!!!

  • Yma Sumac (died November 2008, age 86) would have made an amazing opera singer with her soprano voice and mezzo-contralto voice...she would made Maria Callas jealous! Listen to her operatic voice in this song

  • She had a huge range, indeed, but that does not necessarily make a person a good opera singer.

  • Well she was a mambo singer and a Peruvian folk singer. She crossovered into American "exotica" in the 1950's - after all Xavier Kugat and Desi Arnaz had done the same thing. But if she had trained for opera instead, who knows just how great she might have been. It was just a matter of proper training and technique. I can detect bel canto opera technique in some of her singing. Lucia Di Lammermoor for example or Mozart's the Queen of the Night, etc. She was a coloratura soprano/mezzo

  • But she was able to sing songs that no one could. Pachamama, Chuncho and Tumpa are some examples.

    She was, is and will be unique.

  • Acually Miss Sumac did perform some Opera, such as the Magic Flute, and when Miss Callas was asked in an inverview which singers she admired, Miss Callas first reply was Yma Sumac, and she said not only admire, but was jeleous of Miss Sumac's voice and abilities.

    So you weren't far from the truth ;)

  • @racers115 I tought myself that hans Christian Andersen is dead, but I was wrong he is till alive

  • @MastersoftheOpera Indeed, Maria Callas said in an interview that she was jeleous of Yma Sumac's natural abilities, and Yma also loved Maria Callas. Luciano Pavarotti said "if Miss Sumac were to sing opera, she would instantly be the the greatest female opera singer in the world". But after a concert in Italy, Yma promised the female italian opera singers that she would leave opera to them, and instead concentrate on her own Peruvian music and exotica.

  • el canto de la sirena

  • MUNAY

  • OMG! This is brilliant! What a great voice!

  • Lindo

  • Comment removed

  • She have the best voice beautiful

  • esa cancion no se llama Pachamama? porque hay otor vidoe con ese nombre.

  • dad had her albums when i was younger and i listen to them- i wished i jacked them ......lol-

  • How in the world was she able to do that?

  • shes something- and as far as i know, the ONLY one with a FIVE-octave range voice-move over mariah and julie

  • Yma had 4.5 ocatve voice in all her recordings, but some singers have moments when they overhit their ranges so I assume Yma was even able to hit 6 octaves in some moment of her career...

  • good assessment... i agree with you on that one.....

  • It's inhuman! she had a range of 2 and a half people! amazing!

  • wtf, I'm in love

  • Peccato, un talento sprecato. Si fosse dedicata con maggiore intelligenza e umiltà, avrebbe potuto fare davvero grandi cose. Purtroppo ognuno pensa che basti una dote naturale per essere eterni e che l'arte si possa misurare, così come si misura l'estensione di una voce. Davvero chi ha la voce più acuta, o più grave, è migliore degli altri?

  • YMA SUMAC, Inka Princess.

  • @WaltHood sorry but she is from Bronx

  • Amazing

  • Beautiful !

  • OMG!What a amazing voice!

  • this is just amazing. I'm speechless.

  • ima sumac cantando al lado de diego florez o.o

    hubiera sido un espectaculo de lujo

  • en harvard enseñan...coca cola una multinacional vencida por inka kola..una pekeña empresa... y la voz de ima sumac... xd

    orgullo peruano ^^

  • Wow... I think words can't describe such a voice range and talent. I am wondering if there are any opera arias recorded by this singer and if they are available...

  • Alas She always refused to sing opera saying she didn't think it had enough "heart". But she did sang "The Queen of th Night during a concert in Italy. But there are no records avalaible

  • omg. this is beyond words.

  • Quelle voix dans tout le mystère de l'ancien monde... une mystique incompréhensible aux esprits d'aujourd'hui.

  • A pesar de haber partido ya de éste mundo, Yma Sumac todavía sigue entre nosotros, cada vez que escucho el trinar de un Ave, la recuerdo, al igual que cuando escucho el siseo del viento, el rugir de los animales, la vegetación siendo movida por las corrientes de Aire, ella era la Naturaleza en Persona, siempre he tenido esa idea, y cada vez estoy más seguro de ello.

  • Deberíamos aprender de ella, hablar con nuestros hijos de ella, valorarla como se merece, incluirla en los textos de enseñanza, ningun peruano debería desconocer su música y su trayectoria. Es un orgullo que debemos difundir entre nosotros y luego al mundo.

    ¡Enviemos una carta al ministerio de eduación para que se incluya en la currícula del 2009 o 2010!

    Juan Miguel

  • la voz de esta señora es simplemente imcomparable, unica en su genero........ sin mencionar su belleza extrema......sin duda alguna talento puro.

    es la unica cantante que he escuchado que tenga la capacidad de imitar a un jilguero y la vez un voz ronca que inspira al sueño.......

    por eso y mucho mas YMA SUMAC es toda una diva....descansa en paz emperatriz de la voz minimalista

  • YMAQ SUMAC nunca morira. su nombre a consagrado la canción andina a nivel mundial.

    Los cultores de la musica peruana nos sentimos orgullosos de su brillante carrera artística, y es un digno ejemplo a seguir. PERSONALIDAD reconocida y apludida en los mejores escenarios de nuestro planeta. Distinguida con innumerables honores en el extranjero representando al Perú.

    AMARU INTI DEL PERU- Desde España Hago presente mi más sentida condolencia a la Familia de la Sra.Ima Sumac.

  • It is obvious that Ima Sumac has an incredible voice. She is truly and amazing artist and musician to say the least. However, in this video, as well as Pachamana and Chuncho there is a spiritual component. I don't believe that she is acting the way actresses give performances. Ima actually becomes the High Priestess, she becomes the Shaman. Ima Sumac is truly the Inca Princesss.

  • Gracias Yma Sumac por ofrcernos esa hermosísima voz es una Maravilla .....ahora descanza en paz después de todo el largo trayecto que recorriste en la vida :.-(

  • Soy de Ecuador , nunca supe de ella hasta que un amigo en Italia me regalo su disco , quede fascinado , para mi fue una Diva una de las ultimas , descansa en paz y que tu fuerza ayude a mucha gente a ser orgullosa de ser Latina, Sudamericana e India Inca como lo soy yo ............tu voz siempre estara conmigo

  • @CHCHOEZ ahora ultimo se ha sacado un disco de las arias de opera q hacia en europa. siempre me pregunte por que no se dedico a la opera de lleno.

  • @cjha1978 Cuando se sacado tal cd? saludos

  • RIP

  • IP YMA SUMAC

  • ...Inarguably, she was the best peruvian voice ever.

  • RIP, Lady Yma, you will always be alive in our hearts.

  • RIP, she was one of a kind.

  • What a beautiful range she's got. Amazing. <3

  • you can hear her in a dutch ride with the intro of this song!

  • la verdad no  conocia esta Peruana es una bella voz

    gracias por bajarlo

  • más que maravillosa

  • Me encanta Yma Sumac!

  • love the effekts

  • incredible !!!

  • Although almost everything I have seen of her on Youtube is wonderous, strange, and powerful this is one of the most amazing 94 seconds of audio/video I have ever seen. It is so uncanny and beautiful that she almost makes you think she is from another world rather than another culture (than mine).

  • Increible voz, realmente una belleza extraordinaria, jamas habrá alguien con un registro tan amplio..., verdaderamente es un orgullo saber que es sur americana (Peruana)..., gracias por esta hermosa interpretación!!!

  • unique voice, no doubt 5*

  • esta mujer tiene una voz que acaricia hasta el mas duro sentido ...grande peruana te amamos!

  • Si me parece irreal!!!! No puede ser!!!

  • Miss Yma Sumac is curently in the hospital but you can send your well wishes at:

    Yma Sumac

    4013 W. sunset blvd suite #8

    Los Angeles, CA

    90029 USA. She adores cards with animals or baby. Don't hesitate !!!

  • Grab cantante,, Ymac Sumac,, desde aqui desde Venezuela te queremos mucho.

    Viva Peru,,,,Gran Voz

  • If you were a trained soprano, you wouldn't talk about your "range" having her "capacity." That would be like me saying that I wish my bicycle riding had Lance Armstrong's deliciousness.

  • Una voce sorprendente, disumana!

  • bella voce impressionante nei suoi giochi vocali

  • tenebroso video, increible que sea peruana y mas increible q no tenga el gran reconocimiento q se merece.

  • Viva el Perú.

  • Y ES PERUANNAAAAAAAAAAAA

  • SSI,SI,SI,SIIIIIIII ES PERUANA!!!

  • you just must like her!

  • Agreed such a voice is unbelievebable. I feel just like Travolta in grease. "I got chills They're multiplying And I'm losing control

    'Cause the power you're supplying It's electrifying!" XD

  • In a word, Superb! Maybe she got caught up in Hollywood fakery, but there's no mistaking true talent. Flaming tasteless little boys who only enjoy no-talent noise pollution should not be allowed to use PCs.

  • C'est beau comme l'antique!!! ....(et j'en ai vu d'autres)

  • The best!

    From Spain.

  • You have missed a good chance to hide your stupidity and lack of appreciation for fine things in life and, if you had some brains, which you don't, you would know that Yma Sumac is one of three sopranos able to reach such "high notes" in the entire world but, you had to open you mouth and prove to the world what a "fool" you really are!

  • This is for you "pierrlily"

    You have missed a good chance to hide your stupidity and lack of appreciation for fine things in life and, if you had some brains, which you don't, you would know that Yma Sumac is one of three sopranos able to reach such "high notes" in the entire world but, you had to open you mouth and prove to the world what a "fool" you really are!

  • It is clear that commercial success maybe led Yma Sumac to go for the easy option in most cases. However, if one day you have the chance to hear the album "Mambo", I am sure you won't think it. This album is so unique: a mixture of andean song, of mambo with that such incredible voice. Let's hear it (maybe some of the songs have been posted here) and you will see that very few could do this...

  • I'm not sure what your definition of a soprano is but she most definitely is one and a superb one at that. I am myself a trained soprano who can only wish my range had her capacity. Only one with no formalized musical training would say that she wasn't a true soprano

  • The greatest voice ever!

  • Divina!!

    What a treat!

    Thank you so much for the video Tinoalva!!

    Nivaldo

  • Eso es buena música, no las otras mamadas peruanas como: Wendy Sulca, Las Gemelas del Amor o la Tigresa del Oriente. Lo que esta mujer hace es una verdadera fregonería, y eso que ella en verdad se dedicó a hacer música folklórica en su país, no las cagadas de estas otras artistuchas!!!

    XD

  • quiza por experimentar con las raices folkloricas aca no la valoraron

  • One of Yma's most beautiful! thanks

  • I haven't heard this voice for perhaps 50 years. I never forgot it, though, from when I was a kid in high school. Her range was phenomenal.

  • qué pena que no haya cantado la reina de la noche!!! o la muñeca de los cuentos de Offman, o Turandot!!! con la cara y la voz, Lakmé hubiese sido maravillosa también. Es una verdadera pérdida en ese sentido, qué voz!!!!!!

  • ella si canto Lakme, asi como la flauta magica, en su gira a la urss en 1961 tambien añadió arias de Puccini, Mascagni, Verdi y Wagner.ella qquizo cantar en el Met, pero Rudolf Bing no quiso porque no tenía suficientes conocimientos musicales (dos grandes tenores de nuestros tiempos y de todos conocidos tampoco los tienen y han hecho carrera).

  • VIVA EL PERU CARAJO

  • The story that she was actually born Amy Camus (Yma Sumac backwards) in Brooklyn or Canada is a hoax.This reference asserts that she was known as Imma Sumack in recordings made before she went to the U.S.; Capitol Records changed the spelling to the more exotic "Yma Sumac".It was rumored that Yma Sumac was actually a woman named Amy Camus who worked in the accounting department, but that was eventually disproved by Amy herself in her famous "I can't even sing" memo of August 1951.

  • Yma Súmac was born on September 10, 1922 Ichocán (Cajamarca, (not in Callao as noted from other unofficial sources) [4] Peru) as Zoila Augusta Emperatriz Chávarri del Castillo.

    (By:Wikipedia)

  • Yma Sumac ...con razon mis padres hablaban tanto de ti........Barbara!!

  • yma sumac eres una diosaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaa­aaaaaaaa

    viva el Perú!!

  • bien plus extraordinaire que La Callas ! un phénomène vocal !

  • This is the voice of the last Inka princess "YMA SUMAC". The last "Virgen of the Sun". Please, let it load completly, then.. plush play. She was discovered on Cajamarca-PERU in an ancestral ritual to the sun when she was a child.

  • omg dios mio erstas son la clase d cosas q me hacen sentirme orgullosos de ser peruano...o dios mio those r the kind of things that make me preod to be a peruvian

  • Out of this world!!!

  • Este lunes 10 de septiembre un video especial con imagenes ineditas...

  • Fantastic! And one must always think that she hadn't been taught singing. I wonder whether she would be in a position to sing Opera.

  • una cosa de locos...Peruana,lo maximo

  • increible voz !!! no puede ser!!!

  • Das ist wundervoll !!!

  • one of the best voice of the world!

  • Wonderful! BUENO!

  • Nicely done! Thanks for doing this.

  • mis respetos enserio ... que tal voz ! Peruana tenia q ser ... Nunca traten de hacer lo posible ni lo probable ... traten de hacer lo imposible.!

  • En perú tenemos de todo pero no hacemos ni mierda

  • wow!

  • Los peruanos tienen a la maravilla del Mundo: MACHU PICCHU y a este bella voz:YMA SUMAC! Que afortunados! felicidades!

  • a fabulous voice

  • simplemente, Yma Sumac la diva, no hay mas que decir...

  • Grata sorpresa encontrar a Yma acá. Qué bueno que se dedicó a cantar lo que quiso y que jamás fue a una escuela lírica donde hubiera perdido su ingenuidad y desviado su rumbo de autenticidad. ¿Está viva aun Yma?

  • sip, aun vive =)

  • YMA SUMAC esta viva y sigue cantando,no es igual que antes pero al menos no pierde esa gran don que la hizo ser una maravilla al igual que nuestro MACHU PICCHU

  • Yma Sumac no ha perdido su notas graves y profundas en cuanto a su coloratura que yo sepa la tiene igual. En cuanto a sus elevadísimas octavas me reservo una opinión, pero es admirable que esta divina soprano haya mantenido esa capacidad inaudita a pesar de los años de cantar mejor que cualquier soprano joven. Ver LA MOLINA LIVE en Bruselas, y años más tarde en Montreal!! asombró a todos y con mayor edad!!!!

  • She´s great!

  • One of m y friends is an entertainment lawyer who reps her and tells me she lives in LA in a little house under an alias and walks to her local market daily to buy her groceries and nobody has any clue of who she is there...he wouldnt tell me her alias or where in LA she lives....for privacy reasons obviously...

  • That may be, but if you go to her website you can write to her . . . and get her autograph, as I did, on a copy of her first album which I supplied (and which I've had since 1954!)

  • of course she is alive but has 80 year's old and is from peru

  • Fantastic! Thank´s for your answere.

  • Is she still alive?

  • Yes, she is alive.

  • Tiene imagenes de Tiahuanaco Bolivia tambien, ademas del Cuzco y Machu Pichu

  • yea niels and the inian lilies needed some oil too! haha

  • Bonheur de retrouver Ima Sumac sur Youtube!

    Merci tinoalva!

    Sincrement merci!

  • does anyone know the efteling (amusementpark) in holland? the first part of the song is used on a ride there..

  • Its used as the voice of a witch there!

  • Really wich ride is it?

  • El titulo de esa cancion se llama Tata Inti.

  • Yma, so beautiful, thanks

  • I'm a fan of Yma, but this video is scary!

  • una Leyenda!

  • Una maravilla "YMA SUMAC" le canta a otra nueva maravilla del mundo "MACHU PICCHU".

  • Wow increible q tal voz es increible tenia q ser peruana y se llama peru con p de patria la e ejem la r de rifle la u de la union

  • She is amazing! What a range. She was able to evoke so many colors from her voice, it's really something.

  • Imac Sumac es la mejor

  • Grande! unica.

  • Su majestad