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Yma Súmac - Gopher Mambo

submitted by djsunkid

1 decade 7 years 9 months 2 weeks ago

Yma Súmac is one of the greatest singers of all time, having a range that spanned 5 octaves. This is probably my favourite song by her. It is silly, and short- but check out that voice!

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Yo, what's wrong with being from Brooklyn? Was there a scandal surrounding where she was from? I'm going to look her up, those high notes are so incredibly pure.

Brooklyn? Wha? She's from Peru...?

at the beginning of the video there's a newspaper headline re:brooklyn... found this explanation on wikipedia-

"Yma Súmac was born on September 10, 1922 in Ichocán (Cajamarca, Peru) as Zoila Augusta Emperatriz Chávarri del Castillo. <snip> It is also claimed that she is an Incan princess directly descended from Atahualpa. The story that she was actually born Amy Camus (Yma Sumac read backwards) in Brooklyn or Canada is a hoax."

I'm starting a project to actually measure the vocal ranges of various singers for their Wikipedia entries. It's amazing how many 4 octave ranges become 3 and change when actually measured - like those seven foot tall guys in the NBA. But Yma does have an amazing voice.

Eden

I've gotten so into Yma since this vid was posted - thanks sunkid!

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This published video has been declared non-functional; embed code must be fixed within 2 days or it will be sent to the dead pool - declared dead by eric3579.

Awarding Eden with one star point for fixing this video's dead embed code.

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