Totó la Momposina, who spent decades bringing Colombia’s rural musical traditions to the international stage, died after a heart attack. She was 85.
Totó la Momposina, who spent decades bringing Colombia’s rural musical traditions to the international stage, died after a heart attack. She was 85.
The singer and cultural ambassador, who carried cumbia and bullerengue far beyond Colombia’s coast, died Tuesday in Mexico after years of neurocognitive illness.