Totó la Momposina, who spent decades bringing Colombia’s rural musical traditions to the international stage, died after a heart attack. She was 85.
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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.
The Guatemalan musician returns with a record that deepens his inquiry into Maya identity, threading ancient tradition through the everyday pulse of barrio sound.
