Luzmila Carpio

Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Female

Origin

Potosí

Active from

1954

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

18,494

Total plays

177,297

Luzmila Carpio is a representative of the autochthonous music and soul of Bolivian people. She learned the daily songs of the Quechua and Aymara indigenous peoples that inhabit the mountains and valleys of Northern Potosí in Bolivia as a small child. There she learned the meaning of sounds (the wind, the birds, the river, the echo of her own shouts to the winding cliffs) and voices (in rituals and fiestas of the people) and more importantly the connection between music and the well being of hum

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Drought Sensitivity of the Amazon Rainforest

   · 2009 · cited 1,490x

2. Hyperdominance in the Amazonian Tree Flora

   · 2013 · cited 1,056x

3. Averting biodiversity collapse in tropical forest protected areas

   · 2012 · cited 999x

4. High molecular gas fractions in normal massive star-forming galaxies in the young Universe

   · 2010 · cited 861x

5. PHIBSS: MOLECULAR GAS CONTENT AND SCALING RELATIONS IN<i>z</i>∼ 1-3 MASSIVE, MAIN-SEQUENCE STAR-FORMING GALAXIES

   · 2013 · cited 836x

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Wikidata facts

Instance of

human

Gender

female

Citizenship

Bolivia

Occupation

songwriter

Languages spoken

Aymara

Native language

Quechua

Instrument

charango

Official website

www.luzmilacarpio.tv

Image

Luzmila Carpio at the Mercado de Industrias Culturales del Sur (MICSUR) 02.jpg

Voice type

soprano

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