Sonia Bazanta Vides, better known as Totó la Momposina, is a Colombia

Colombia

Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia , is a unitary constitutional republic comprising thirty-two departments. The country is located in northwestern South America, bordered to the east by Venezuela and Brazil; to the south by Ecuador and Peru; to the north by the Caribbean Sea; to the...

n singer of traditional mixed indigenous Colombian and Afro-Latin music. She was born in the northern Colombian town of Talaigua Nuevo near Mompox

Santa Cruz de Mompox

Mompox or Mompós, officially Santa Cruz de Mompox, is a town and municipality in northern Colombia, in the Bolívar Department, which has preserved its colonial character. Located on an island in the Magdalena River where it joins the Cauca River, 249 kilometers from Cartagena. Mompox depends upon...

 in the Bolívar Department

Bolívar Department

Bolívar is a department of Colombia. It was named after one of the original nine states of the United States of Colombia. It is located to the north of the country, extending from the coast at Cartagena near the mouth of the Magdalena River, then south along the river to a border with Antioquia.Its...

. She released her 1993 album "La Candela Viva" on Peter Gabriel's

Peter Gabriel

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 Real World Records

Real World Records

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 label.

Family

Totó is from the fourth generation of her family to be involved with music, and her children are following in the tradition.

Discography

• Cantadora (MTM Auvidisc, 1983)
• Colombia - Toto La Momposina y sus Tambores (Auvidis 4513, 1989)
• La Candela Viva (Realworld Records 31 1992)
• Carmelina (MTM, 1995)
• Pacantó (Colombia: MTM/Europe:Nuevos Medios/USA: World Village, 2000)
• Gaita y Tambores
• Total - 2 disc compilation
• Michel Cleis feat - Toto La Momposina - La Mezcla - samples the track El Pescador from the La Candela Viva album (2009)
• Paul Kalkbrenner feat - Toto la Momposina - La Mezcla Remix - samples the track Curura from the La Candela Viva album (2010)

Two songs from La Candela Viva were included on the soundtrack of the movie Jungle 2 Jungle

Jungle 2 Jungle

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See also

• Music of Colombia
  Music of Colombia
  The music of Colombia is an expression of the Colombian culture, which contains diverse music genres, traditional and moderns according with the features of each geographic region; although it is frequent to find different musical styles in the same region...