YMA SUMAC Taita Inti

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.

el canto de la sirena

MUNAY

OMG! This is brilliant! What a great voice!