catalog no: promo
"Selections From the Forthcoming Albums" - this seldom seen cassette tape heralded the reissue of Yma Sumac's entire Capitol Records' catalog in 1996 and was later reissued on compact disc as Sampler Exotica with different, though similar, cover art and the same liner notes.

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The Right Stuff - EMI - Monophonic / Stereo - 1996 United States   Cassette Tape

• Cassette sampler features a track each from forthcoming compact disc reissues
• One track, Virgenes del Sol, is in stereo
• Other four tracks are in monophonic
• This, as all cassettes, is somewhat hard to find
• Liner notes excerpted from Voice of the Xtabay as was Sampler Exotica
• This is a compilation
• Features tracks from several releases

Born high in the Peruvian Andes, a descendant of the last of the Incan kings, Yma Sumac spent her childhood literally "talking" with the birds, the beasts, the winds, the sounds of life and nature surrounding the little village of Ichocan.

While still a small girl she began taking part in the religious pageants and services of the sun-worshipping Indians and became almost deified by them.  Word of her phenomenal vocal powers reached Lima, the Peruvian capitol, and an official government delegation travelled into this remote mountain region to see and hear what they secretely believed to be a myth.  Yma Sumac was real, however, and a few years later she was in Lima, studying, singing, maturing, becoming Peru's precious gift to the world.