Wendy Sulca Quispe(born in April 22 1996 in San Juan de Miraflores, Peru) is an Peruvian child singer of Huayno music, who found fame thanks to the YouTube site, where their videos "La tetita" ("The tittie") and "Cerveza, cerveza" ("Beer, beer") exceeded the three million hits.
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The viral phenomenon her songs generated has given her attention in established media such as tv-shows and variety shows (such as El Francotirador with the Peruvian journalist Jaime Bayly in 2009). She has recently appeared with the Puerto Rican group Calle 13 and had her song "Cerveza" remixed in a song with same name with the Colombian rap group SA Finest, including the singer Jiggy Drama[1]
In April 2010 Wendy Sulca released the song "En tus Tierras Bailaré" (In your land shall I dance) with the "You-tube stars" Delfin Quishpe and Tigresa del Oriente. The song received attention in Latin American media and got rapidly more than one milion hits in a few weeks [2] and has been called a "Youtube We are the World" by Calle 13 singer Residente.[3]
Journalist Alma Guillermoprieto has recently described the phenomena of Wendy Sulca and En tus Tierras Bailaré as being and example of "the chaotic transformation of a culture that has always had an infinite and joyful capacity for self-invention. This not outsider but insider art of the deepest sort, forged in a hot-hot crucible, and it is we who stand on the outside, peering wistfully at the screen".[4]
References
- ^ http://www.jiggydrama.com/ In S.A. Finest album "The Best of Bad Words (Vol.3)
- ^ Diario El Tiempo, Ecuador
- ^ Diario El comercio, Peru
- ^ What is that Monkey Doing Behind the Rowboat? Alma Guillermoprieto, June 9, 2010, New York Review of Books
External links
- Article in the Buenos Aires daily Perfil on the Sulca viral phenomena. (In Spanish)
- Article in Chilean investigative/satirical magazine The Clinic[1]
- Article in argentinean daily Panorama on Sulcas new song dedicated to Israel (In Spanish)
- Article in argentinean Rolling Stone Magazine