Toto la Momposina belongs to the fourth generation of a family devoted to music. She learned to dance and to sing as a child. Her father was a percussionist and her mother was a singer and a dancer. In 1964 with her parents and brothers conforms her first ensemble. In 1982 she went to Stockholm, Sweden, to accompany Gabriel García Márquez to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Her music combines African and indigenous elements as it happened during the time of Spanish colonization in America. A lot of rhythms were born of this fusion. The most representatives are called: gaita, cumbia, porro, chalupa, sexteto and mapalé.
She did her first recording in France in 1983. In 1991 she did participate in both the Cervantes Festival in Guanajuato and the Festival of Caribbean Music in Cancun. That same year she was invited by WOMAD (World Music Arts and Dance), the foundation of Peter Gabriel, for the Real World label to record "La Candela Viva" album, released in 1993. In 1992 she represented Colombia in the Seville’s World Fair in Spain.
In 2002, she was nominated for the Latin Grammy Awards in the Best Traditional Tropical Album category for Gaitas y Tambores album.
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