r.i.p.yma

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HB hala bullhiki Member champaign,illinois Joined: Nov 26, 2002 Posts: 592	HB hala bullhiki Posted posted on Mon, Nov 3, 2008 4:33 PM see link below.....r.i.p http://music.msn.com/music/article.aspx/?news=337743&GT1=28102
M msteeln Member Ka'a'awa, HI Joined: Mar 24, 2008 Posts: 296	M msteeln Posted posted on Mon, Nov 3, 2008 5:05 PM A unique, classic/classy & stylish Lady with few peers. RIP, Ms. Sumac
JB Joe Banks Tiki Socialite An island in Catlandia Joined: Aug 02, 2007 Posts: 560	JB Joe Banks Posted posted on Mon, Nov 3, 2008 5:22 PM I just heard a report on KPCC. Very sad.
J jpmartdog Tiki Socialite Amesbury, Mass Joined: Mar 27, 2005 Posts: 650	J jpmartdog Posted posted on Mon, Nov 3, 2008 5:24 PM wow.... thanks for the post! wouldn't have known. Love this! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LUSUel_kck&feature=related this is good too http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhUBJZdL8BY&feature=related RIP Yma Sumac. [ Edited by: jpmartdog 2008-11-03 17:29 ]
T tikithomas08 Member San Diego CA Joined: Apr 10, 2007 Posts: 528	T tikithomas08 Posted posted on Mon, Nov 3, 2008 7:21 PM bummer deal :(
T twitch Tiki Socialite Vacant lot where T. Vic's, Van. was Joined: May 12, 2006 Posts: 432	T twitch Posted posted on Mon, Nov 3, 2008 9:48 PM Just heard about it now from a friend.... very sad...
C christiki295 Member LA-2547 mls east Hawaii &5500 Easter Is Joined: Apr 09, 2003 Posts: 3837	C christiki295 Posted posted on Mon, Nov 3, 2008 11:44 PM Her music will keep her with us always.
S sushiman Member Kumamoto , Japan Joined: Jun 28, 2007 Posts: 313	S sushiman Posted posted on Tue, Nov 4, 2008 12:23 AM The last of the legendary exotica/lounge/space age " stars " ( Baxter , Denny , Lyman , Esquivel , etc ) has gone . May her 5 octave voice grace the ears of the folks wherever she is now . Love ya Yma !
B bananabobs Member Joined: Feb 16, 2003 Posts: 824	B bananabobs Posted posted on Tue, Nov 4, 2008 1:27 AM Bummer. Yma Sumac recorded an extraordinarily wide vocal range of more than four octaves, from B2 to C♯7 (approximately 123 to 2270 Hz). She was able to sing notes in the low baritone register as well as notes above the range of an ordinary soprano. Both low and high extremes can be heard in the song Chuncho (The Forest Creatures) (1950).
RH Robb Hamel Member Ohio Joined: Mar 07, 2008 Posts: 1013	RH Robb Hamel Posted posted on Tue, Nov 4, 2008 5:44 AM A seriously dark bummer....
D donhonyc Tiki Socialite The Quiet EAST Village Joined: Jan 13, 2003 Posts: 1196	D donhonyc Posted posted on Tue, Nov 4, 2008 5:45 AM Wow. One of the most unique vocalists from that time. Glad I got to meet her at Hukilau a few years ago. I got her to sign my 'Xtabay' and 'Mambo' albums.
F Formikahini Tiki Socialite Houston, Texotica Joined: Aug 22, 2002 Posts: 1514	F Formikahini Posted posted on Tue, Nov 4, 2008 11:18 AM I have been so down about this. I too treasure that I got to meet her (and that she heard me sing!). There were photos of the two of us together, but i don't seem to have any! If you know where some are, please send them to me or direct me to them. Pleeez! Yma Wannabekahini
TT Tiki Tooth Member Joined: Feb 07, 2008 Posts: 40	TT Tiki Tooth Posted posted on Thu, Nov 6, 2008 8:57 AM What a great talent! She'll be missed.
S shampoovta Member Joined: Jun 20, 2007 Posts: 99	S shampoovta Posted posted on Thu, Nov 6, 2008 10:03 AM Loved her.
S Sophista-tiki Tiki Socialite Seattle WA Joined: Sep 13, 2005 Posts: 1899	S Sophista-tiki Posted posted on Thu, Nov 6, 2008 8:42 PM wasn't she ancient?
C Chrisc Member UK Joined: Dec 01, 2004 Posts: 65	C Chrisc Posted posted on Fri, Nov 7, 2008 1:58 PM I'm much saddened... I came to Tiki through Yma's music, and I have all her albums. We raised a toast to her the other night at the Oxford Talking Stick pagan moot! Gone but not forgotten.
T TikiG Tiki Socialite Riverside, California Joined: Jun 17, 2008 Posts: 1560	T TikiG Posted posted on Fri, Nov 7, 2008 2:45 PM Sad. I prayed last Monday when I found out about her death. Her soul sings on in all of us. Wanna hear what happened (to me) last Saturday afternoon - the day she passed? Kinda cool and freaky at the same time. Read on. I was doing my thrift store rounds in the valley looking for Poly Pop stuff. My last stop provided the best haul of the afternoon. This last stop yielded several aloha & tiki shirts, a wood Maori tiki carving, swag lamp, a book on oceanic art and something very special. I found in a wooden box under the record album table the Yma Sumac "Voice of the Xtabay" album, not the single 12" LP record but the 10" 78 RPM set of several 78s plus the album w/paper record pockets! All in great shape..I was absolutely floored because you just don't see Yma Sumac records everyday! I paid a dollar for the set! Talk about being f'king lucky..if you are lucky enough to score this set and have a decent turntable that plays 78 RPM records you know what I mean when I say the fidelity of a clean 78 record is AWESOME! WOW! Thinking back to last Saturday I now realize I was probably playing her music in my home as she slipped away from our Earthly realm to the Heavenly realm, and just a few miles away in Hollywood. God Bless you Yma for hours of timeless entertainment.
D Digitiki Tiki Socialite L.A. baby! Joined: Jul 22, 2004 Posts: 818	D Digitiki Posted posted on Fri, Nov 7, 2008 3:53 PM The fact that she passed on All Saints Day was quite insteresting. Yma, you will be missed, but your music will continue to grace us for ever.
I ikitnrev Tiki Socialite D.C. / Virginia Joined: Jul 27, 2002 Posts: 1325	I ikitnrev Posted posted on Wed, Nov 12, 2008 7:26 AM The following is an excerpt from Camille Paglia's column on salon.com. This is the first time I've read about someone actually see Yma perform in the early 50's. "On the culture front, I was startled to read of the death last week of Yma Sumac, the virtuoso five-octave Peruvian singer who seems like a legendary figure of the misty past. Sumac's 1950 debut album, "Voice of the Xtabay," made a tremendous impact on me as a child. My family attended her performance (with her company of 20 artists) at the Binghamton Theatre in what was probably 1951. I still have the yellowed clippings and program, which lists songs eerily mimicking the sound of the Andean winds and earthquakes. The cover image of "Voice of the Xtabay" with a glamorous Sumac in the pose of a prophesying priestess against a background of fierce sculptures and an erupting volcano, contains the entire pagan worldview and nature cult of what would become my first book, "Sexual Personae," published 40 years later. Thank you, Yma!"

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