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Chabuca Granda
Maria Isabel Granda Larco , better known as Chabuca Granda, was a beloved Peruvian singer and composer. She created and interpreted a vast number of Criollo waltzes with Afro-Peruvian rhythms. Her best known song is La flor de la canela (Cinnamon Flower).
Biography
Maria Isabel Granda Larco was born on 3 September, 1920, in a copper mining area in the region of Apurimac. She began singing at 12 years old, in the school choir at the exclusive girl's school Colegio Sophianum, in San Isidro. At this age she sang as a soprano (an operation later gave her the ...
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