Video Description
Song: La Pampa y la Puna
Author: Carlos Valderrama Herrera
Performer: Yma Sumac
Source:
Carlos Arroyo
Yma Sumac
Yma Súmac (1922-2008), was a Peruvian singer with one of the most spectacular ranges and styles ever heard (an amazing four-octave range). She mixed Hollywood pizzazz with indigenous Incan songs splendidly. Yma Sumac, from Ima Shumaq, Quechua for "beautiful flower" or "how beautiful!", was born in Cajamarca, Peru as Zoila Augusta Emperatriz Chavarri del Castillo. Sumac was said to have been a descendant of Inca kings, an Incan princess that was one of the Golden Virgins.
Carlos Valderrama Herrera
Carlos Valderrama Herrera (1887-1950) was a famous Peruvian musician, composer and pianist, linked to the mainstream music of Nationalism and Impressionism. Born in Trujillo, a city department of La Libertad in northern Peruvian territory.
His flagship master composition, "La Pampa y la Puna" became the unofficial national anthem of Peru and one of the most known and widespread in the world.
