SOME STUFFS: r.i.p. Yma Sumac
Her music and albums have become a part of digging for records at thrift stores, garage, yard, and estate sales, and became one of many who people wanted to seek for “incredibly strange music”. Exotica, lounge, call it what you want, but for those of us who were not a part of her genereation, she was a mystery of sorts. When you listened to her music, she was quite amazing.
The Los Angeles Times reports that Yma Sumac passed away yesterday at the age of 86 after battling cancer. She had become a legend to everyone who bought her records and attended her concerts. She signed with Capitol Records in 1950 and became one of the label’s brightest stars. While she moved people of her generation, it was the people of future generations who discovered her as somewhat of an oddity only because it seemed world’s away from what anyone was listening to at the time. Upon listening, one will discover that she was far from an oddity.
