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A series of great early Opera performances: From 1902 G&Ts to 40s wartime German records:

Yma Sumac is indeed a girl from a peruvian village, discovered by her mentor and arranger Moise Vivanco. That she got glammed up in the 40s as a cheesy Aztec Goddess, with even cheesier arrangements, stands on another page. Her voice is like nothing you have ever heard: 5 octaves from roaring sub-bass to ear splitting whistling register, she is probable the human being with the widest vocal range. (And god bless her heart, she's still alive and well, and singing):

With songs by her discoverer and mentor Moise Vivango with that absolutely cheesy Aztec music arrangement:

In her US PREMIERE ALBUM (she recorded some Odeons in Peru before)

BABALU/ WIMOWEH

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Yma Sumac – Voice Of The Xtabay
Label:
Capitol Records – CD 244

A  Virgin Of The Sun God (Taita Inty)
Written-By – Moisés Vivanco*
Written-By – Moisés Vivanco*
B  Lure Of The Unknown Love (Xtabay)
Written-By – John Rose (2), Leslie Baxter*
Written-By – John Rose (2), Leslie Baxter*
C  High Andes! (Ataypura!)
Written-By – Moisés Vivanco*
Written-By – Moisés Vivanco*
D  Monkeys (Monos)
Written-By – Moisés Vivanco*
Written-By – Moisés Vivanco*
E  Chant Of The Chosen Maidens (Accla Taqui)
Written-By – Leslie Baxter*, Moisés Vivanco*
Written-By – Leslie Baxter*, Moisés Vivanco*
F  Dance Of The Winds (Wayra)
Written-By – Moisés Vivanco*
Written-By – Moisés Vivanco*
G  Earthquake! (Tumpa!)
Written-By – Moisés Vivanco*
Written-By – Moisés Vivanco*
H  Dance Of The Moon Festival (Choladas)
Written-By – Moisés Vivanco*
Written-By – Moisés Vivanco*


Arranged By, Conductor, Composed By [Additional Music] – Leslie Baxter*
Music By [Inca Music], Lyrics By – Moises Vivanco
Photography By – Tom Kelley (3)

4x10" 78 rpm record w orig album CD224 and notes

Condition:

EXCELLENT MINUS,  unworn but very scuffed, 7 mm scratch on Virgin, plays very quiet light crackle. Most records have chipped/enlarged spindle holes

Album great, binding solid, sleeves sound, tiny roughing front upper right side corner

The cover of Yma Sumac's debut album, (1950).

 

Yma Sumac (pronounced /'i?m? 'su?mæk/; September 13, 1922 – November 1, 2008) was a noted Peruvian soprano. In the 1950s, she was one of the most famous proponents of exotica music. She became an international success based on her extreme vocal range, which was said to be "well over four octaves"[1] and was sometimes claimed to span even five octaves at her peak.[2][3]

Yma Sumac recorded an extraordinarily wide vocal range of slightly over four octaves from B2 to C#7 (approximately 123 to 2270 Hz).[4] She was able to sing notes in the low baritone register as well as notes above the range of an ordinary soprano. Both low and high extremes can be heard in the song Chuncho (The Forest Creatures) (1953). She was also apparently able to sing in an eerie "double voice".[5]

 

[edit] BiographyZoila Augusta Emperatriz Chávarri del Castillo was born on September 13, 1922,[6] in Ichocán, Cajamarca,[7] Peru. While one of her "official" websites says that the "official date" of her birth is September 10,[8] the date on a different "official" website is given as September 13, 1922 (according to her personal assistant, who claimed to have seen her birth certificate).[9] Other dates mentioned in her various biographies range from 1921 to 1929. Some sources[10] claim that she was not born in Ichocán, but in a nearby village, or possibly in Lima, and that her family owned a ranch in Ichocán where she spent most of her early life.

Stories published in the 1950s claimed that she was an Incan princess, directly descended from Atahualpa. Her New York Times obituary reported that, "The largest and most persistent fabrication about Ms. Sumac was that she was actually a housewife from Brooklyn named Amy Camus, her name spelled backward. The fact is that the government of Peru in 1946 formally supported her claim to be descended from Atahualpa, the last Incan emperor."[11]

Chávarri adopted the stage name of Imma Sumack (also spelled Ymma Sumack and Ima Sumack) before she left South America to go to the U.S. The stage name was based on her mother's name, which was derived from Ima Shumaq, Quechua for "how beautiful!" although in interviews she claimed it meant "beautiful flower" or "beautiful girl".[12]

Imma Sumack first appeared on radio in 1942 and married composer and bandleader, Moisés Vivanco, on June 6 of the same year. She recorded at least eighteen tracks[13] of Peruvian folk songs in Argentina in 1943. These early recordings for the Odeon label featured Moisés Vivanco's group, Compañía Peruana de Arte, a group of forty-six Indian dancers, singers, and musicians.

In 1946, Sumack and Vivanco moved to New York City, where they performed as the Inka Taky Trio, Sumack singing soprano, Vivanco on guitar, and her cousin Cholita Rivero singing contralto and dancing. Sumack bore a son, Charles, in 1949, and was signed by Capitol Records in 1950, at which time her stage name became Yma Sumac.

During the 1950s, Yma Sumac produced a series of legendary lounge music recordings featuring Hollywood-style versions of Incan and South American folk songs, working with the likes of Les Baxter and Billy May. The combination of her extraordinary voice, exotic looks, and stage personality made her a hit with American audiences. Sumac appeared in a Broadway musical, Flahooley, in 1951, as a foreign princess who brings Aladdin's lamp to an American toy factory to have it repaired. The show's score was by Sammy Fain and E. Y. "Yip" Harburg, but Sumac's three numbers were the work of Vivanco with one co-written by Vivanco and Fain.

Capitol Records, Sumac's label, recorded the show. Flahooley closed quickly, but the recording continues as a cult classic, in part because it also marked the Broadway debut of Barbara Cook. During the height of Sumac's popularity, she appeared in the films Secret of the Incas (1954) and Omar Khayyam (1957). She became a U.S. citizen on July 22, 1955. In 1959, she popularized Jorge Bravo de Rueda's classic song "Vírgenes del Sol" on her Fuego del Ande long playing album (LP).

In 1957, Sumac and Vivanco divorced, their dispute making news in Los Angeles.[14] They remarried that same year, but divorced again in 1965.

Apparently due to financial difficulties, Yma Sumac and the original Inka Taky Trio went on a world tour in 1961, which lasted for five years. They performed in forty cities in the Soviet Union, and afterward throughout Europe, Asia, and Latin America. Their performance in Bucharest, Romania, was recorded as the album Recital, her only 'live in concert' record. Yma Sumac spent the rest of the 1960s performing sporadically.

In 1971, she released a rock album called Miracles, and then returned to live in Peru. She performed in concert from time to time during the 1970s in Peru and later in New York at the Chateau Madrid and Town Hall. In the 1980s, she resumed her career under the management of Alan Eichler and had a number of concerts both in the U.S. and abroad, including the Hollywood Roosevelt's Cinegrill, New York's Ballroom in 1987 (where she was held-over for seven weeks to SRO crowds) and several San Francisco shows at the Theatre on the Square among others. In 1987, she also recorded the song "I Wonder" from the Disney film Sleeping Beauty for Stay Awake, an album of songs from Disney movies, produced by Hal Willner. She sang "Ataypura" during a March 19, 1987, appearance on Late Night with David Letterman, appearing alongside Jan Hooks and Sam Donaldson. She also recorded a new German "techno" dance record, "Mambo ConFusion."

In 1989, she sang once again at the Ballroom in New York and returned to Europe for the first time in 30 years to headline the BRT's "Gala Bertjes" TV special in Brussels as well as the "Etoile Palace" program in Paris hosted by Frederic Mitterrand. In March 1990, she played the role of Heidi in Stephen Sondheim's Follies, in Long Beach, California, her first attempt at serious theater since Flahooley in 1951. She also gave several concerts in the summer of 1996 in San Francisco and Hollywood as well as two more in Montreal, Canada, in July 1997 as part of the Montreal International Jazz Festival.

In 1992, Günther Czernetsky directed a documentary for German television entitled Yma Sumac — Hollywoods Inkaprinzessin (Yma Sumac — Hollywood's Inca Princess).

With the resurgence of lounge music in the late 1990s, Sumac's profile rose again when the song "Ataypura" was featured in the Coen Brothers film, The Big Lebowski. Her song "Bo Mambo" appeared in a commercial for Kahlúa liquor and was sampled for the song "Hands Up" by The Black Eyed Peas. The song "Gopher Mambo" was used in the films Ordinary Decent Criminal, Dead Husbands, and Confessions of a Dangerous Mind. "Gopher Mambo" was also used in an act of the Cirque Du Soleil show Quidam. The songs "Goomba Boomba" and "Malambo No. 1" appeared in Death to Smoochy.

On May 6, 2006, Sumac flew to Lima, where she was presented the Orden del Sol award by Peruvian President Alejandro Toledo and the Jorge Basadre medal by the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos.[15]

Yma Sumac died on November 1, 2008, aged 86 at an assisted-living home in Los Angeles, nine months after being diagnosed as having colon cancer. She was interred at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Hollywood, California in the "Sanctuary of Memories" section.

[edit] Critical receptionIn 1954, classical composer Virgil Thomson described her voice as "very low and warm, very high and birdlike", noting that her range "is very close to four octaves, but is in no way inhuman or outlandish in sound."[11]

 

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