Thursday, September 04, 2008

Has Anyone Ever Heard of Yma Sumac

I have been seeing this crazy ice-cream advert on TV, it shows some Inca tribes people worshiping a Female God who hold a giant ice-cream, yes very crazy stuff but the music with it is even crazier, There is this shrill operatic style voice doing the mambo, and growling and then Husky then shrill and it does everything and anything all to Mambo. I was intrigued enough to try and find out who was the singer. I attempted to do a search and funnily enough there were many sites that also had the same question, it appears that many people had the same idea about this crazy music and the answer was there. Her name was Yma Sumac, she used to perform around the 40's 50's, she lives in Las Angelas, she is 86 and she used to tour the world and made a couple of films, the music today is pretty cheesey stuff but she could sing in 5 Octaves and soprano, very high, but that type of music today is almost silly but I managed to listen to 7 songs and there are plenty of them on Youtube, it is just bizarre, i cannot think of any other expression of it. But you have to check out that woman, Yma Sumac

1 Comments:

At 10:13 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Dave;
Yes she was really good, she dead last Nov 1st, as you know she was from Peru, but also try another good peruvian singer Juan Diego Florez...

 

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