I though she had left us some time ago, but its still sad she's away - playing "Taita Inty"...
― Sandy Blair, Monday, 3 November 2008 07:56 (fifteen years ago) link
goddess! bye bye yma.
― stirmonster, Monday, 3 November 2008 09:29 (fifteen years ago) link
I also assumed she was no longer with us. but, indeed, sad news. a total legend.
― m the g, Monday, 3 November 2008 11:48 (fifteen years ago) link
RIP
― Soukesian, Monday, 3 November 2008 12:57 (fifteen years ago) link
her stage name "Yma Sumac" means "how beautiful" in Quechua.
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aw man, RIP Yma.
― ian, Monday, 3 November 2008 16:48 (fifteen years ago) link
sigh... RIP
― Chris Barrus (Elvis Telecom), Monday, 3 November 2008 20:54 (fifteen years ago) link
Steve Shasta OTM
― sleeve, Monday, 3 November 2008 21:43 (fifteen years ago) link
http://classicshowbiz.blogspot.com/2008/11/in-memory-of-yma-sumac-life-magazine.html
― Milton Parker, Monday, 24 November 2008 21:15 (fifteen years ago) link
She's so classic. Mambo is the best
― Unchanging Window (Ross), Tuesday, 27 June 2017 05:25 (six years ago) link
Monos is the track I have always loved. Think it's on Voice Of The Xtabay.
― Stevolende, Tuesday, 27 June 2017 06:11 (six years ago) link
Goddess. Nice recent story about the many myths of Yma Sumac: On the trail of Yma Sumac: The exotica legend came from Peru, but her career was all Hollywood
― Le Bateau Ivre, Tuesday, 27 June 2017 09:32 (six years ago) link
There's a new 3cd out through Cherry Red that includes at least 6 of her lps in entirety and I think plus some other stuff. I have been wondering how good it sounds. Cos I was going to grab it if I saw it in London then didn't see it.
Do have a 2cd set that does include Monos thankfully. That was the track I always fancied working up a version of or based on if I got a band together. Then never got a band together.
Need to find out if Amy camus is as much of a myth as what it thought it was dispelling.
& it was the copy of the 78s album of Voice of the Xtababay that taught me not to use vinyl cleaner on shellac cos it's not surface dirt that comes off but the actual surface.
― Stevolende, Sunday, 12 January 2020 09:06 (four years ago) link