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  2. Martina Portocarrero - Wikipedia

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    Martina Portocarrero (29 September 1949 – 22 April 2022) was a Peruvian folk singer, cultural researcher, and politician. She was an interpreter of huaynos and mulizas, as well as a researcher of Andean culture. Portocarrero was posthumously honored by the Peruvian government as Personalidad Meritoria de la Cultura (Meritorious Personality of ...

  3. Huayno - Wikipedia

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    Huayno (Waynu in Quechua) [1] is a genre of popular Andean music and dance. It is especially common in Peru , western Bolivia , northwest Argentina and northern Chile , and is popular among the indigenous peoples, especially the Quechua people .

  4. Music of Peru - Wikipedia

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    Peruvian music is an amalgamation of sounds and styles drawing on Peru's Andean, Spanish, and African roots. Andean influences can perhaps be best heard in wind instruments and the shape of the melodies, while the African influences can be heard in the rhythm and percussion instruments, and European influences can be heard in the harmonies and stringed instruments.

  5. Ojos azules (song) - Wikipedia

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    The Peruvian composer Manuel Casazola Huancco was also erroneously attributed as the author of the song. According to other hypotheses about the origin of the song, it was originally known as "Ojos bonitos" (Pretty Eyes), a traditional Peruvian huayno from Cuzco . [ 1 ]

  6. HTTP Live Streaming - Wikipedia

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    HTTP Live Streaming (also known as HLS) is an HTTP-based adaptive bitrate streaming communications protocol developed by Apple Inc. and released in 2009. Support for the protocol is widespread in media players, web browsers, mobile devices, and streaming media servers.

  7. Regal Theater, Chicago - Wikipedia

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    On what for a time was known as the Chitlin' Circuit, the Regal also featured motion pictures and live stage shows. Nat "King" Cole , Cab Calloway , Louis Armstrong , Ella Fitzgerald , Sarah Vaughan , Lena Horne , Dinah Washington , Ethel Waters , Miles Davis , Sammy Davis Jr. , Bill Robinson , Moms Mabley , Lionel Hampton , Dizzy Gillespie ...

  8. Juan Diego Flórez - Wikipedia

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    Juan Diego Flórez (born Juan Diego Flórez Salom, January 13, 1973) [1] is a Peruvian operatic tenor, particularly known for his roles in bel canto operas. On June 4, 2007, he received his country's highest decoration, the Knight Grand Cross in the Order of the Sun of Peru.

  9. Culture of Peru - Wikipedia

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    The most internationally recognized Peruvian dance is the marinera norteña, which represents the courtship of a man towards a young woman. [28] There are local variations of this dance in Lima and other regions of the country. Marinera Norteña, the most representative dance from Peru. Mostly performed in the Coast.