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Totó la Momposina
Colombian singer
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dead
- born
- 1940
- died
- 2026
- age at death
- 85
- known for
- singer, composer, teacher
1940 – 2026
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who totó la momposina is
Sonia Bazanta Vides, better known as Totó la Momposina, was a Colombian singer of Afro-Colombian and Indigenous descent. She reached international attention with the release of her 1993 album La Candela Viva on Peter Gabriel's Real World Records label. Totó accompanied Gabriel García Márquez to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1982 as part of a Colombian cultural delegation performing during the award ceremony.
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wikidata records a date of death for Totó la Momposina in 2026, which is how we know. your browser re-checks this against wikidata on every visit, so it’s current even if the page itself was cached a while ago.
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