YMA SUMAC

Anahi Chislla Solis 3B

 BIOGRAFIA
Zoila Augusta Emperatriz Chávarri del Castillo, she was born on September 13, 1922 in Ichocán
(Cajamarca, Peru), said she was an Inca princess, a descendant of the last emperor, Atahualpa. He
chose two Quechua words to name
herself, live and captivate millions of people with her portentous
soprano voice in the 1950s. She was Ima Sumaq ("how beautiful"). For him
world of singing Yma Sumac.
He died on November 1, 2008 in a Los Angeles infirmary.
home at the age of 86 as a result of colon cancer. This is one of the few
incontrovertible facts about her life, because Yma Sumac was always.
The young Yma Sumac fell in love with Moisés Vivanco, a
Composer and conductor of the Lima orchestra, whom he married in 1942.
From then on, his name began to change. The exoticism of her voice and her rarity brought her to the
United States.
Her voice register - five octaves at a time when opera singers reached two
and a half octaves - captivated millions of spectators and made her very
popular in Hollywood, where Yma Sumac settled permanently and where her
remains lie.
Dressed, coiffed and made up as Hollywood might imagine an Inca princess
to be, she put on a show that was hard to forget.
Yma Sumac's first recordings date back to 1944 and her discography includes
songs like “I love you alone, El hummingbird, La Benita, Love, Indian love,
Waraka tusuy and Indian Carnival ”.
At the height of her musical career, Yma Sumac also participated in the 1954
film The Secret of the Incas (with Charlton Heston and Robert Young), where
she performed one of the songs that made her most famous: Ataypura. A role
that fit perfectly with his legend. In the 1990s, the lounge craze led to Yma Sumac being sampled and
remixed;
his voice appeared in commercials and cult films such as The Big Lebowski,
which featured her song Ataypura, and is quoted by Vanessa Paradis in
Joe le Taxi, as one of the taxi driver's favorite singers in the French
woman theme. It is also one of the favorites of Vinila Von Bismark and Guille.
Milkyay, who has dedicated a song to him. His voice, in fact, is constantly
sampled. Punk has always loved her.