Now known as Yma Sumac Square, Hollywood Boulevard and Wilcox Avenue is dedicated to the Peruvian singer with a five-octave range who found fame in the 1950s
HOLLYWOOD — A Hollywood intersection was dedicated Thursday as Yma Sumac Square in honor of the record-setting Peruvian singer and one of the best known performers of exotica music in the 1950s, nine days after the 100th anniversary of her birth.
Born Zoila Emperatriz Chavarri Castillo on Sept. 13, 1922, in Callao, Peru, she graduated from high school in 1940 and sang in local festivals, according to her website. In 1942, she joined Compañia Peruana de Arte, a music group formed by the Peruvian folk musician and composer Moises Vivanco, who she married that year.Peruvian soprano Yma Sumac performs during the 16th edition of the Musical SPping Festival, on May 1, 1992, in Bourges, central France.
Yma Sumac poses by a pond on set of “The Loves of Omar Khayyam,” the second motion picture for the Peruvian star, April 25, 1956. A photo dated from January 1955 shows Peruvian soprano singer Yma Sumac with her husband Moises Vivanco in Los Angeles during a press conference at which Vivanco denied the charges of a paternity suit against him by Sumac’s former secretary.
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