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A unique voice gone. Yma Sumac dead at 86.

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The world lost a unique voice Saturday, with the death at age 86, of legendary Peruvian singer, Yma Sumac.

Her extraordinary voice had a range of 4 ½ to 5 octaves, which allowed her to soar into the stratosphere, and then drop effortlessly down to a baritone range.

She appeared in a 1954 film, Secret of the Incas, and was filmed singing at Machu picchu , cast in the role of a latter day Inca. She also appeared in other films, and toured the US in concert appearances. In the fifties and sixties, she recorded a number of albums.

There was even an urban legend in the fifties that she was really Amy Camus (yma sumac spelled backwards) from Brooklyn.

Some videos of her singing:

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PeFy9S0MKp4[/ame]

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-6eKroZeIg&feature=related[/ame]

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQM7Cd6pABg[/ame]

biographical information:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yma_Súmac
 
I have always loved her singing. What a marvelous instrument she had and what a loss. :cry:
 
Yma hit her last high C.... RIP darling.
 
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Yma hit her last high C.... RIP darling.
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I think it was a lot higher than a high C. LOL

There is a you tube clip of her performing in her late sixties, a time when most female singers have long since given up. The voice wasn't what it used to be, but the stage presence was still there.
 
I was wondering when someone would post that information. It is a sad loss as she had such a fantastic voice. However, that information from Wiki is inaccurate. She a high, high, high C in Soprano, but she did not sing into Baritone. That would have given her a seven octave range.
 
Quote from the wiki piece:

The stage name was based on her mother's name which was derived from Ima Shumaq, Quechua for "how beautiful!"
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RIP. I only found out about her when watching Mariah Carey videos on youtube and people kept comparing MC to her. There's no comparison at all.

And her song "wimowey" is the background to The Lion Sleeps Tonight!
 
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