# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/yma-sumac
# Generated: 2026-08-13T05:17:16.535Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/yma-sumac"
name: "Yma Sumac"
slug: "yma-sumac"
description: "Zoila Emperatriz Chávarri Castillo, known as Yma Sumac, was a Peruvian-born vocalist, actress, model, musical composer and producer. She won a Guinness World Record for the Greatest Range of Musical Value in 1956. She has also been called Queen of Exotica and is considered a pioneer of world music. Her debut album, Voice of the Xtabay (1950), peaked at number one in the Billboard 200, selling a million copies in the United States, and its single, \"Virgin of the Sun God \", was a big seller in the United Kingdom, becoming an international success in the 1950s. Albums like Legend of the Sun Virgin (1952), Fuego del Ande (1959) and Mambo! (1955), were other successes."
tagline: "Peruvian-American singer (1922–2008)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Yma_Sumac_in_Italy.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1922-09-13"
deathDate: "2008-11-01"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           57.19
  momentum:             2.028112449799197
  historical:           23.46650933333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0838512/"
    handle:    "nm0838512"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.yma-sumac.com"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Yma Sumac"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Yma Sumac"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Yma Súmac"
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    title: "Yma Sumac"
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    title: "אימה סומאק"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yma_Sumac"
    title: "Yma Sumac"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yma_Sumac"
    title: "Yma Sumac"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/53d86951-706c-41c8-9053-a713ea972395"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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    title: "Yma Sumac"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump