Her first album Voice of the Xtabay launched a period of fame that included performances at the Hollywood Bowl and Carnegie Hall. She was signed by Capitol Records in 1950, at which time her stage name became Yma Súmac. In 1946 Sumac and Vivanco moved to New York City, where they performed as the Inka Taky Trio, Sumac singing soprano, Vivanco on guitar, and her cousin Cholita Rivero singing contralto and dancing. Súmac married composer and bandleader Moisés Vivanco on June 6, 1942. These early recordings for the Odeon label featured Moisés Vivanco's group, Compañía Peruana de Arte, a group of 46 Indian dancers, singers, and musicians.
She recorded at least 18 tracks of Peruvian folk songs in Argentina in 1943. Yma Súmac first appeared on radio in 1942. 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".
YMA SUMAC MUSICTUBE SERIES
She was the subject of a series of publicity campaigns designed to shroud her origins in mystery: was she an Inca princess, one of the chosen 'Golden Virgins'? Whatever her heritage, what was abundantly genuine was Sumac's four octave range, ascending from 'female baritone, through lyric soprano, to high coloratura'.Ĭhávarri adopted the stage name of Imma Sumack (also spelled Ymma Sumack and Ima Sumack) before she left South America to go to the United States. The government of Peru in 1946 formally supported her claim to be descended from Atahualpa, the last Incan emperor". Stories published in the 1950s claimed that she was an Incan princess, directly descended from Atahualpa. Her parents were Sixto Chávarri, who was born in Cajamarca and Emilia Castillo, born in Pallasca, Ancash. Zoila Augusta Emperatriz Chávarri del Castillo was born on September 13, 1922, in Callao, a seacoast city in Peru. He described Súmac's voice as not having the "bright penetrating peal of a true coloratura soprano", but having in its place "an alluring sweet darkness. Haley favorably compared Súmac's tone to opera singers Isabella Colbran, Maria Malibran and Pauline Viardot. In 2012, audio recording restoration expert John H. In 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 five octaves, but is in no way inhuman or outlandish in sound". She was also apparently able to sing in an eerie "double voice". Both low and high extremes can be heard in the song Chuncho (The Forest Creatures) (1953). She was able to sing notes in the low baritone register as well as notes above the range of an ordinary soprano & notes in the Whistle Register. In one live recording of "Chuncho", she sings a range of over four and a half octaves, from B1 to F#7. Yma Súmac recorded an extraordinarily wide vocal range of 5 octaves, 3 notes and a semitone ranging from E2 to B♭7 (approximately 107 Hz to 3.7 kHz). She became an international success based on her extreme vocal range, which was said to be "well over five octaves" or otherwise was claimed to span over five octaves, at the peak of her singing career. In the 1950s, she was one of the most famous proponents of exotica music. She lives in Los Angeles and has been contemplating new releases of recordings of her most recent concerts.Yma Súmac (/ˈiːmə ˈsuːmæk/ Septem– November 1, 2008) was a Peruvian soprano. She has acted in several films and stage shows, and continued to perform into the 1990s.
When she signed with Capitol Records in 1950 her stage name's spelling was changed to the more exotic "Yma Sumac." An urban legend that she is really "Amy Camus," a nice Jewish girl from Brooklyn, originated in 1951 with a joke among musicians repeated in one of Walter Winchell's gossip columns. She came to the United States in the 1940s and performed with a small group of musicians and dancers. From an early age she performed in radio and movies and made recordings throughout South America. Known for her astonishing 4 1/2 octave vocal range, Yma Sumac (AKA Ima or Imma Sumack) is from Ichocán, Peru, a town high in the Andes.
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