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Renata Flores

Fourteen-year-old Renata Flores at her first concert held in September 2015, in Ayacucho, Peru. The majority of popular cover songs she sang that night were in Quechua.

How a 14-year-old girl is making Quechua cool in Peru — with music and lyrics from Michael Jackson

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Renata Flores, an indigenous Peruvian, is also an Internet sensation. That happened after a video of her singing a Michael Jackson hit went viral. Flores wasn’t singing the song in English or Spanish. Instead, she sang it in her native tongue, Quechua.

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