Totó la Momposina
Toto la Momposina
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Sonia Bazanta Vides (1 August 1940 – 17 May 2026), better known as Totó la Momposina, was a Colombian singer of Afro-Colombian and Indigenous descent. She reached international attention with the release of her 1993 album La Candela Viva on Peter Gabriel's Real World Records label. Totó accompanied Gabriel García Márquez to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1982 as part of a Colombian cultural delegation performing during the award ceremony. Life and career Totó was born in the northern Colombian town of Talaigua Nuevo, near Mompox in Bolívar Department, on 1 August 1940. She was part of the fourth generation of her family to be involved in music. Her father was a drummer and her mother was a singer and dancer. She studied at the National University of Colombia. She then studied for a year at the Sorbonne in Paris. Totó received the Latin Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2013. In 2017, she was awarded an honorary doctorate from the National Pedagogic University in Colombia. Totó la Momposina died in Celaya, Guanajuato, Mexico, on 17 May 2026, at the age of 85.
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- 1940Born
- 2013Won Latin Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award
- 2026Passed away
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- •Place of birth: Talaigua Nuevo
- •Citizenship: Colombia
- •Known as: singer, composer, teacher, dancer
- •Genre: cumbia
- •Plays: voice
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