A singer with an amazing four-octave range, Yma Sumac (Quechua for "How Beautiful!") was said to have been a direct descendant of Atahualpa, an Incan princess that was one of the Golden Virgins. Other sources claimed that she was a Limanese housewife named Amy Camus (Yma Sumac spelled backwards). In actuality she was born Zoila Augusta Emperatriz Chavarri del Castillo in Ichocan, Peru. Ichocan is 4,585 miles away.
She died late last year from complications arising from colon cancer, in Silver Lake, California, at the age of 86. Silver Lake is 313 miles away.
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So beautiful.
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