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Archive Home > 2008 > November > 04 > ‘Peruvian Songbird’ Yma Sumac, 86

‘Peruvian Songbird’ Yma Sumac, 86

By Dennis McLellan / The Bulletin
November 4, 2008

LOS ANGELES — Yma Sumac, the Peruvian-born singer whose spectacular multi-octave vocal range and exotic persona made her an international sensation in the 1950s, has died. She was 86.

Sumac, who was diagnosed with colon cancer in February, died Saturday in an assisted-living facility....

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