Skip to content
EntityQ860250· pop 8· linked from 16 articles

Also known as Guaitipan, La Gaitana, Cacica Gaitana

thumb|220px|Memorial Monument to Gaitana in Neiva, Colombia

Person · Open Library

Works
1

Top works

  • Memorial desde las máquinas

via Open Library + Wikidata

Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Female
Origin
Bogotá

via MusicBrainz · CC0

Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
12,995
Total plays
114,052

Tags

popUkrainianEurovisionfemale vocalistsUkraine

Gaitana Essami (Ukrainian: Гайтана Ессамі), born on 29 September 1979 in Kyiv), is a Ukrainian singer and songwriter, the only Afro-Ukrainian celebrity in the country. Her music combines elements of jazz, funk, soul, and folk music. Gaitana will represent Ukraine in the Eurovision Song Contest 2012 in Baku, Azerbaijan. Early life Gaitana was born in Kiev, at the time in the Ukrainian SSR of the Soviet Union (in present-day Ukraine), but subsequently moved to the Congo where her father, Klaver

via Last.fm · Gaitana

Wikidata facts

Instance of
human
Gender
female
Place of birth
Timaná
Image
Monumento a la Cacica Gaitana.JPG
Show 4 more facts
date of death
1600-00-00
floruit
1600-00-00
pseudonym
Guaitipán
different from
Gaitana
Sources (1)

via Wikidata · CC0

~3 min read

Encyclopedic overview

4 sections
Contents
  • Pre-Columbian era
  • Spanish conquest
  • Sources
  • References

thumb|220px|Memorial Monument to Gaitana in Neiva, Colombia

Gaitana, also known as Guaitipan and La Gaitana, was a 16th-century cacica (leader) of an indigenous people in the region of Timaná, Huila. Though some scholars believe she may be a legendary figure, two chronicles report that in 1539–40 she led the indigenous people of the Upper Magdalena River Valley in Colombia in armed resistance against the colonization by the Spanish. Her monument sculpted by Rodrigo Arenas stands in Neiva, the capital of the Huila Department in Colombia.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Gaitana” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

Available in 8 languages

via Wikidata sitelinks · CC0