Overview
- Her death was announced on the artist’s official social accounts and confirmed by her son, Willie Tamayo.
- The family reported she suffered a cardiac arrest at home overnight, a detail not yet independently elaborated by authorities.
- Tamayo, born in Quito in 1965, was a leading interpreter of pasillos, albazos, pasacalles and sanjuanitos with a career that reached audiences in the United States and Spain.
- Ecuador’s culture minister Alegría Crespo, the presidency, and the authors’ society SAYCE issued condolences, joined by fellow performers.
- Days before she died, she recorded in Lima with Peruvian singer Eva Ayllón for a collaboration planned for November that now becomes posthumous.