Photograph by Harry Langdon.

Santa Monica, CA: May 14, 1957

bellafata:

The great Yma Sumac.

Where there have been times that people laugh to my body when I walk out onto the stage I usually just carry on for those in audience who came to see me sing/perform but maybe in the future, if it get’s to the point where I don’t want to entertain the laughing rats in the audience, i’ll just leave like Yma Sumac. Look at her in her green gown, flowing off like a Queen. (2 mins onwards).

“They say i am legend.” - Yma Sumac

via www.moviemorlocks.com 2008

Promo photograph for Yma’s performance at Ruggles Cabaret Bar in 1988.

Queen.

PLAYBILL VAULT’S Today in Theatre History: MAY 14, 1951 

Actress-singer Barbara Cook makes her debut as Sandy in E.Y. Harburg’s Flahooley. This musical will run for 5 weeks at the Broadhurst Theatre on Broadway. The show also features a singer, Yma Sumac, who has a vocal range of four octaves.

via www.playbill.com/index.php

Inca Goddess

Dita giving some Yma Sumac glamour.

(Source: apocalypseofthemind)

 @DitaVonTeese looking gorgeous wearing one of Yma Sumac’s personal gowns in @LAWeekly. Photographed by Star Foreman.

burnthebridge:

My latest musical fascination -
Yma Sumac, an Incan princess and singer with a 4-octave range

ciudadfutura:

Yma Sumac

virginieachouch:

dolcegabbana:

Linda Evangelista chennels Yma Sumac in Dolce & Gabbana for Vogue Italia, May 2012

série vogue Italie Linda evangelista pour D&G en mode yma sumac

Yma in DISCoveries Magazine, 1990.

Amazing rare find on Youtube, via Dickvigaristaoffaria:

Yma Sumac’s interpretation of Mozart’s The Magic Flute, 1959 at Cine Cacique, Porto Alegre, Brazil.