The Most Famous
Singers from Peru
This page contains a list of the greatest Peruvians Singers. The pantheon dataset contains 4,381 Singers, 6 of which were born in Peru. This makes Peru the birth place of the 79th most number of Singers behind Mali and Kazakhstan.
Top 6 Singers
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Peruvians Singers of all time. This list of famous Peruvians Singers is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography's online popularity.
- #1
Yma Sumac
1923 - 2008
HPI 70.1444 langsYma Sumac is most famous for her unique voice. Born as Amalia Margarita Sumac Landa de Silva on September 13, 1922 in Cajamarca, Peru, she...Read moreShow less
Yma Sumac is most famous for her unique voice. Born as Amalia Margarita Sumac Landa de Silva on September 13, 1922 in Cajamarca, Peru, she was a Bolivian citizen who became one of the most popular singers of the 20th century. Sumac's voice was characterized as operatic, and she was best known for singing in the Quechua and Aymara languages.
