Biography

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TOTO LA MOMPOSINA

Sonia Bazanta better know as Toto La Momposina is a folk colombian singer of traditional mixed indigenous colombian and afro-latin music.

She was born in the north of our country in Mompox in the Bolivar Deparment. She learned to dance and sing when she was a child, becouse her father was a percuocionist and her mother was a singer and dancer.

In 1964 with her parents and brothers formed their first group, after that in 1984she recorded her first production in France, she made touring in Europe and studied in Paris.

Nowaday her music in the point of the origen of the several mixes in the music for younger people with her foundation.

She is a very impornant singer and an embassadress of our culture, she help to improve the native music and mantain the traditions.