Susana Baca

Susana Baca

Susana Baca is a Peruvian singer and songwriter from Lima, associated with música criolla and Afro-Peruvian music. She is of Afro-Peruvian descent and is a key figure in the revival of Afro-Peruvian music in Peru. Her work also helps bring that music to a wider international audience.

Career

Baca gains wider international recognition through the compilation The Soul of Black Peru, on which she appears. The release helps draw attention to Afro-Peruvian music outside Peru and forms part of the broader revival of the style.

Background

She is born in 1944 in Lima, Peru.