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  • I learned about this woman and her music when she died and I read the story on internet. I googled her and was amazed at what I heard. Some months later, I wanted to buy the music and could not think of her name for "nothing"!! Finally, I put Mambo in the Youtube search field and found her again. Her sound is like no other. Thanks Youtubers for posting. It really helps us old folk, like me, a lot.

  • Великая певица! Исключительный голос - сейчас таких голосов нет!

  • ¡es impresionante la capacidad de esta gran cantante! puede cantar tanto en registro de soprano ligera como contralto y tenor.. no es común encontrar estos rejistros tan ampleados y esta mujer da para todo...

  • Ahora entiendo por que la canción de Black Eyed Peas es tan genial!

  • A bit scary.

  • a esto se le llama una voz completa no como la weada de voz de georgia brown .... esa solo grita nada mas .............

  • RESUSITA YMA SUMAC!

  • me encanta por eso orgullo de ser peruanos y peruanas!!

  • me encanta por eso orgullo de ser peruanos y peruanas!!

  • Peruvian Girl !!!

    

  • Los Peruanos deberian de estar orgullosos

  • ERES PERUANA Y ERES LO MAXIMO...

  • I love that  Kahlua commercial that features her song!!

  • te amo y te amo! teeeeeeee amoooooo gracias por dejarnos esto tan bonito

  • Wow!

  • То как зверь она завоет,то заплачет как дитя! Пушкин про Yma Sumac

  • @RadaJiva Ну вы и скажете:D

  • Lyrics are something like this, from what I hear: Bambalai lamento negro que va. Ombá es la danza para Huamar. Ay, lamento que llega al corazón. Ombá, con amor (2 times)// Ay-ay-ay-ay-ay-ay (6 times)// Ajú. Ajú// Bambalai lamento negro que va. Ombá es la danza para Huamar. Ay,lamento que llega al corazón.Ombá, con amor. Con amor //Bambalai lamento negro que va. Ombá es la danza para amar. Ay, lamento que llega al corazón. Ombá, con amor. Con amor.// // // I hope this is helpful.

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  • Esta cajamarquina de pura cepa tenia un vozarron.

  • Has anyone the lyrics to this song?

    Thanks

  • increíble, simplemente increíble xDD

  • lyrics? anyone? i need to sing this in a couple o' months & i'd like to do it as faithfully as possible (rather than just phonetically kind o' thing)

  • ¡Espectacular!

  • Big Lebowski brought me here. xD

    Pero es una grande canción. Viva el Peru. :)

  • Music from heaven ;)

  • cada tiempo pasado,no se puede repetir,es la historia musical.

  • The problem with Yma Sumac is that she sang mostly weird stuff, and most of it seemed to just be a pretext for her to sing really high and low at some point. She could have been a lot more successful if she had been more mainstream and spent less time on the vocal acrobatics.

  • @Mxsmanic: But then she would have been like 1000 000 other singers.

  • Que je suis fière d'être péruvienne quand j'entend une chanteuse comme elle ! Quelle tessiture, quelle voix, je suis tout simplement fan :) Comment 13 personnes ne peuvent pas aimer ??! FELICITATIONS YMA SUMAC :D

  • 12 are BEP fans

  • BEP SUCKS

  • Part of me is glad that BEP are into this incredible old music, and are helping to introduce a new generation to these great sounds. But I'm also bugged because they really don't give the original artists credit. I was listening to Miserlou one day and my little sister yelled "hey, he ripped off the Black Eye Peas!" I kinda wanted to strangle her. XD

  • @grungegirl18 I would have at least bounced the nearest thing I could find off her skull. You have marvelous restraint.

  • @grungegirl18 before the peas come to peru, will.i.am told to the news that they took the track for their hands up song, and also will.i.am said a lot of things about yma sumac in the middle of the show.

  • Peruvian Yma Sumac the Best forever!

  • RIP great lady with this amazing voice!

  • BEP ripped this song off, but you have to admit...they ripped it off well. haha

  • Amo esta musica!! :D . Q orgullo ser peruana con ella :D

  • GRANDE YMA SUMAC ...!!!!! LA MEJOR

  • Del Castillo just like me :D

  • QUE VIVA EL PERÚ CARAJO!!!

  • que voz diferente e linda

  • wow. Que talento. No cabe duda que lo de hoy en dia es porqueria y nada de talento. No soy peruana pero nunca e escuchado nada tan bonito como Yma que salga de Peru y no lo digo como insulto. Soy mexicana y lo mejor fue en el tiempo del cine de oro musicamente. Y hasta hoy no a habido nada bueno.

  • It is for sure that no one accidentally lands to Yma Sumac! so I wonder what kind of people would search this song and then dislike it!

  • I love this! Makes me want to dance! If I knew how. LOL

  • Amy Camus

  • @mysterpb Yma Sumac real name was Zoila Augusta Emperatriz Chavarry she was born In Callao, Peru.and her birthdate was september 13 of 1922. Amy Camus is an urban legend of the people from New jersey. Yma Sumac was a peruvian mestiza. She and Maria Callas were the best singers.

  • Holy Cow...they don't make REAL music like this.....the orchestra her voice...WOW! I love it! Vidal

    

  • She's 100% Peruavian man...peruvian.

  • Wikipedia claims she was a soprano. She actually was a contralto as you can clearly hear in the early part of the recording at 0:30. She was able to expand her vocal range upwards. You can hear her change from contralto to soprano at 0:53.

  • this is ... whoa.

  • she's cool!!

  • Does anyone know where I can find the lyrics?

  • The Black Eyed Peas used some of this in a song they did a few years ago called "Hands Up" from their "Elephunk" album! I love the mix of old & new sounds together!!!

  • she is awsome

  • Nació en el Callao.

  • @SERStephanie nacio en cajamarca, y fue bautizada en el callao, algo asi fue la cosa. pero si fue criada hasta los 16 años en cajamarca... pero no estoy seguro si nacio en el callao, por que su partida de bautizo dice eso.

  • Cómo?, se dijo que nacio en EEUU?, pero eso no es cierto , ella es Cajamarquina, exactamente del distrito de Ichocán, Provincia de San Marcos.

  • @Genevieve1622 Yo también siempre supe que ella era de Cajamarca-Perçu, pero resulta que en Wikipedia sale con que nació en el Callao como por alli dice un compatriota nuestro. Cuál srá la verdad?, aunque yo vi un documental de yma sumac en Tv, donde mencionaban a Cajamarca como su lugar de origen. A no ser que mis recuerdos estén cnfundidos.

    saludos desde Trujillo-Perú

  • Yma is a Goddess!

  • wow, I heard the intro on a record of Black Eyed Peas to my surprise and joy to hear the origin of that song, she´s amazing what a voice!

  • @orrinaleron thats horrible... what commercial??

  • viva el peruuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu cara......ajo

  • EXELENTE!!

  • wooow. soy perano, pero sea de donde ella haya sido, que vos, por Dios. No cabe duda que Dios dota a la gente con talentos.

  • una musa de mi pais para el mundo.

  • Thank you Richard Reed Parry for recommending Yma to me! She's so great!

  • einfach nur GEIL!!!!! ;-)

  • wowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww­wwww

  • Peruanisima , Triple coloratura perfecta ( Record Guiness) . es de otro planeta definitivamente

  • la mejor voz del mundo

    duela a quien le duela

  • what a trumpet section.

  • wow wow wow!

  • estoy deacuerdo!! es una de las mejores voces de este mundo!!!!!

  • PERFECTA

  • she had a four octave vocal range vich is very rare. there vas a hungarian singer who past a way a cuple of years ago his name vas zambo jimmy.yma sumac died of hunger.it is a sad dead for a great talent she vas.

  • at least this shows the black eyed peas HAD good taste in music

    notice the key word 'had' being in the past-tense

    if i hear "i got a feelin" again, i'm gonna punch someone in the ear

  • waouh!!!! que voz madre mia..

  • Gracias por postarlo!

    Saludos desde Brasil

  • HASTA LOS BLACK EYED PEAS HAN SACADO UNA CANCION CON ESTA PISTA!! Black Eyed Peas - Hands Up!!! ESCUCHENLA!!!

  • @chriscar25 és verdad!!! a mesma canção!!!!

  • wow excelente y lo mejor de todo es peruana ;)

  • @pierina118 Y qué tiene que sea peruana?.. Pudo a ver nacido en cualquier país...Cuando se fue a New York.. los gringos ya la querían nacionalizar...

  • @DaniGordilloCP Im agree with you..Yma Sumac belongs to the humanity as one of the most remarkable voices that once exist...She belongs to the whole world..The best singer ever! Astonishing! Uncomparable! Magnifica!

  • @DaniGordilloCP En USA se creo una leyenda le crearon un supuesto origen de New Jersey donde residio por un tiempo, y decian que su nombre verdadero era Amy Camus ( Yma Sumac )al reves. Pero quien objete que los peruanos estemos orgullosos de su talento es unj tonto. Todos nos sentimos orgullosos del exito de nuestra gente, sea de donde sean mas alla que la musica no tiene fronteras. Es junto a Maria Callas una de las mejores voces de la historia de la musica y nacio en el Peru.

  • Did you know this song was used by The Black Eyed Peas for "Hands Up"?

    Excelente voz la de Yma Sumac.

    ¡Viva el Perú!

  • Strange and incredible voice.....

  • yma sumac ............una voz inolvidable, eres diva

  • Maravillosa voz y unica  y Peruana

  • Thanks!!!!!!!

  • Great song...discovered it in 1988

  • Ima Sumac de Peru, la mejor soprano de todos los tiempos. Unica.

  • If You love this kind of emotions in voice please hear

    youtube.com/watch?v=ofWdrHU5FD­g

    from 4:07

    Yma Sumac - great voice!!!

  • GRANDISSSIMA§

  • alguien tiene la letra de este video?

  • Do any of you hear what I hear behind the Latin rhythms and arrangement, namely a 12 bar blues?

  • hermosa yma sumac la mejor cantante del mundo

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  • Og my godd!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!­!!!!!!!!!!!

  • OH MAMBO OTRA VEZ.

  • Que voz tan fuerte y sensual, bravo!

  • I just got word that Black Eye Peas used samples of this song to make a cut called "Hands Up"....That's kinda cool....

  • Wow! Those trumpets!

  • lo maximo

  • She had amazing eyes.

  • God she is beautiful.

  • Yma is a gift to this world, an incredible talent, her Mambo tape is one of my prized possessions and I have fond memories of cranking it up and dancing up a dust-storm in my driveway with my kid, what a voice!

    Thank you everyone posting vids and music of her songs and performances!

  • I've seen Ms. Sumac many times...each performance billed as her final performance. Obsession with her started in 1972 in Paris. An incredible singer.

  • The VOICE!

  • HECHO EN PERU

  • bella voz tiene ella!!!!!

  • used this for a fashion show in London in the eighties...Loewe Knightsbridge, everyone thought we had lost our minds...amaaazing!!

  • Bellisima voz, bellisima ella! Asi es mi Perú :D

  • ME VUELA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Increible!!.

  • Yma era de otro planeta,adelantada años luz!!!!Pionera del World-Fusion!!!!!DIVA!!!

  • Thank you :D

  • @eroticnekrophiliac

    your english is amazing :D

  • She quite possibly has the most amazing vocal range that I've ever heard. Quechua is such a beautiful language. I'm so PROUD to be PERUVIAN!!! QUE VIVA EL PERU CARAJO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • De la Ptm

  • Gran cantante. Una mujer legendaria.

  • Black Eyed Peas are rippers!! ha ha! Love Yma Sumac

  • @MegaHealer its not a rip. I think they paid homage to one of the worlds treasures, if not, hidden gems. Now Puff...that's Jack the Ripper there. LOL

  • @SpeekEZ23 HA! HA! HA! HA! Interesting perspective

  • lindo q voz

  • hermosaaaa!!!

  • אימא סומאק?

    כוס אמק כאילו?!?!?

    ססססס'אמק?

    כתוב שחשבו שהיא יהודיה... יפה חחח

  • Wow. I'm sad that I'm only just learning of Yma Sumac. She's great!

  • Wish I could speak Spanish - what an amazing woman and a voice from God - thanks for the music :)))

  • @BrightonBeachBabe Actually her voice is a result of being born and raised in very high altitudes. Of course it is also a very musical culture and inhereted genetics play a part. Not to say every person born in her area can sing like her, but it certaintly allowed that to happen. It had nothing to do with anything supernatural. Biological chance gave her the capacity and experience gave her the character she is known for.

  • @VariedInterest what the fuck? HAHAHAHAHA dude, shut the fuck up okay? im peruvian, and you're just talkin bullshit. That is called talent asshole

  • @snakeater1810 Moron, your bus is leaving!

  • @VariedInterest thats not even funny! dickhead!

  • Bravo Vivanko&Yma Sumac!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Tiene una maravillosa voz.. es magica... no hay quien la iguale

  • no es la mejor voz del peru te lo dice un dominicano es la mejor voz del mundoooo..... una divaa

  • @stevenfedez te recomiendo escuchar a la agrupacion peruana el sol del peru ,donde cantaba inti ñusta ,te aseguro que vas a entrar en dudas ,y no sabras cual de ellas es la mejor voz si la de ima sumac o la voz de inti ñusta.

  • I would STRONGLY URGE any young and upcoming singer to study,absorb Great vocalist such asYma,Ella and Judy...THEN Click your heels together and pray you can Channel the voices!!!

  • Yma Sumac joya del Peru..

    she's one of the many talented Peruvians round the world...

  • božský hlas

  • Yma Sumac was one of the most remarkable vocal talents ever to appear anywhere.

  • Grande Yma Sumac ( 2 ) . Grande voz ..

  • grande IMA SUMAC!!!

  • Cuando yo era una niña vi un film con

    Yma Sumas y nunca pude olvidar su voz!

    Tiene algo de salvaje, magico y genial!

    RIP !

  • LA VOZ DE YMA FUE ARTE

  • VIVA EL PERU CARAJO!!!

  • uhauhauahuahah carajo!!!

  • La mejor.. No habra una igual a ella... unica!

  • jesus! she is amazing.......

  • In 1957, Sumac and Rory Emerald divorced, their dispute making news in Los Angeles.[11] They remarried that same year, but divorced again in 1965.

    Yma Sumac passed away on November 1, 2008, aged 86 at an assisted-living home in Los Angeles. She had been diagnosed with colon cancer only nine months earlier.

    On May 6, 2006, Sumac flew to Lima, where she was presented the Orden del Sol award by Peruvian President Alejandro Toledo and the Jorge Basadre medal by the Universidad Nacional Mayor

  • this is my favorite now! :)

    although they're all pretty good.

  • She is unique!!! I understand she said that her first audience was the birds of her Andes. And she atribute her voice because when you are born there in the highest montains your lungs are wider and the air is pure.

    She has the purest voice and the highest ever... Marvelous!

  • la portada de este album aparece en el videoclip Mad about you de Belinda Carlisle...

  • monagapito gracias por la info....ya lo hice, como usted me lo indicó......gracias

  • yma is amazin'....the most beautiful voice in all the world....but.....someone knows where i can download this song?.......sorry for my very bad english

  • si no la consigues, grábatelo desde audacity. Bájate audacity, junto con su plugin de mp3 y dale record (en monoaural) es recontra sencillo y asi tienes el audio. suerte!

  • Are we suposed to understand that comments? What language is it? I am romanian..... still you can't comment on russian :D LOL

  • its spanish

    im not very good at it but i think that aquarella said something about her mother raising him or her with the music of Yma sumac and then mauco said something like thats great its a real tradition.

    but then again my spanish isnt good wich is very shame full cause im half panamese..

  • Thanks for explaining :D

  • youre welcome

  • My friend, from Romania. Ima Zumac was Peruvian, she spoke Spanish, as her native tongue. if you have no knowledge of Spanish , then you're fucked up..

  • I was just about to ask on Yahoo! Answers what this song was in the Black Eyed Peas song lol Ever since I heard it in that liquor commercial I tried to find it! Thanks for posting!

  • the best!!

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