Yma Sumac - Gopher Mambo (1954)

Yma Sumac was a noted Peruvian singer. In the 1950s, she was one of the most famous proponents of exotica music. She became an international success based on her extreme vocal range, which was said to be “well over four octaves“ and was sometimes claimed to span even five octaves at her peak. Stories published in the 1950s claimed that she was an Incan princess, directly descended from Atahualpa. Her New York Times obituary reported that “the largest and most persistent fabrication about Ms. Sumac wa