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Genre: Vocals
Media Format: Compact Disk
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Release Date: 5-MAR-1996

Release Date: 1996-03-05, Audio CD, The Right Stuff

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Budget-price Danish edition of 1994 release featuring 'unplugged' versions of the multi-instrumentalist, singer/songwriter's best known tracks as well as a cover of Stevie Wonder's 'The Secret Life Of Plants'. MTV Acoustic/WEA.

Release Date: 2003-02-18, Audio CD, Arc Music

Release Date: 1995-12-04, Audio CD, Tierra Negra / Zyx

In 1950, at the dawn of an era of musical exotica (in which composers such as Esquivel, Martin Denny, and Les Baxter would test the limits of hi-fi strangeness), Yma Sumac entered the scene. She was a diva from the Andes with a four-vocal octave range, an unrelenting trill, and great looks, and she became an overnight sensation. Within years of her debut LP, Voice of the Xtabay, Sumac recorded more concept albums, starred in a Broadway musical (Flahooley), and appeared onscreen with Charlton Heston in 1954's Secret of the Incas. Truth be told, exotica music's popularity was short-lived (only to resurface again with the '90s lounge culture), and many would claim Yma Sumac was merely American housewife Amy Camus spelling her name backwards. No matter. This is still great, hilarious music unlike any other. With composer-husband Moises Vivanco, Sumac created a hybrid jazz, mambo, and world music that was the perfect showpiece for her vocal pyrotechnics. She scats, she trills, she bellows, but--mostly--she entertains. This disc collects Sumac's very best works, three unreleased tracks (worth hearing for the opening to "Negrito Filomino"), and extensive liner notes. --Jason Verlinde

Release Date: 1996-03-05, Audio CD, The Right Stuff

Flute Guitar & Harp Of The Andes by Los Caballeros

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