The return of Yma Sumac: label to showcase singer to new generation
Peruvian singer Yma Sumac in the 1950’s. She boasted an extraordinary five-octave range and claimed to be descended from the last Inca emperor. Photograph: Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images Few popular singers have boasted a five-octave range. Even fewer have claimed they were descended from the last Inca emperor and schooled in song by “the creatures of the forest”. And fewer still have appeared in a Charlton Heston film that helped inspire Indiana Jones, toured the USSR, been namechecked in Vanessa Paradis’ Joe le Taxi, won a sta...
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