Goodbye to Totó la Momposina, legend of Colombian song

She passed away at the age of 85 Totó the Momposinato the century Sonia Bazanta Videsthe greatest singer of Colombian popular music. Marco Vinicio Oyagaone of the artist’s sons, said his mother’s health had been steadily deteriorating since the end of last year.

Totò La Momposina it was also remembered by the Colombian president Gustavo Petro who wrote on his social media channels: “Toto la Momposina, a sublime figure of Colombian Caribbean art and culture, has passed away. May he fly high among the stars. In Astram.”

As reported by ANSA, the singer was queen of cumbia, bullerengue, mapalé and leek. His musical career had an acceleration of notoriety after being part of the delegation of musicians who accompanied the Colombian writer Gabriel García Márquez to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982. In 2013 he won the Award for Musical Excellence at the Latin Grammys.