"The most fascinating example of [exotica] was the famed exotica singer Yma Sumac ,

whose wailing nonsensical faux-Incan hymns over Baxter’s tropical score is further

buried in fog due to the lack of initial information about Sumac’s origin. Painted as

an Incan princess, but more recently confirmed as Peruvian born, Hollywood

fashioned this wannabe folk singer into a jungle-goddess, inventing a occult-like

myth around the singer (Miranda, 2017). Sumac’s layers of confused origin become

more textured with the sincere attempts to include her peruvian upbringing- warping

songs of her childhood into an amorphous blob of orientalism. These are the layers

that Hollywood primed their clientele on, her vocal parabola mimicking, if not

mocking, the many identities she took on (Toop, 1999)." - GG Skips

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