Yma sumac biography inca princess

Born Zoila Augusta Emperatríz Chavarri del Castillo, c. September 10, 1922, in Ichocán, Cajamarca, Peru; daughter of Sixto Chavarri del Castillo and Ima Sumack Emilia Athualpa; married Moisés Vivanco (a musician) on June 6, 1942 (divorced and remarried); children (with Vivanco): a son, Papuchka.

Addresses: Website--Yma Sumac Official Website: http://www.sunvirgin.com.

Feeding the needs of an American music industry that often turned to Latin sounds when sales were down, Peruvian-born pop diva Yma Sumac burst onto the music scene in the early 1950s with something audiences outside Latin America had never before heard.

With her four-to-five-octave singing range, "exotic" identity, and mysterious origins that were the subject of urban legend, the so-called "Nightingale of the Andes" offered mid-century North American audiences with a break from the ordinary.

While the thrust of her commercial success was largely limited to the 1950s, Sumac's recordings and occas