Today we mark what would have been the 87th birthday of the fabulously exotic Yma Sumac, "Nightingale of the Andes" and proud possessor of a five-octave operatic voice, which she certainly put to very good use no matter what musical genre she was singing - be it mambo, traditional, or show music.
Read my blog on the occasion of her death last year.
Today I stumbled across this rarity, and just had to share - it's a video of Miss Sumac in a 1990 revival of Sondheim's Follies in which she starred alongside Juliet Prowse, Shani Wallis and Dorothy Lamour...
Now wouldn't THAT have been a show worth seeing?
Yma Sumac
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