Edith Barr

Nora Edith Barr García was a Peruvian singer who specialized in Peruvian Creole music. Popularly known as the Flor Morena de la Canción Criolla, her career spanned over fifty years. Beginning her career as a teenager, she performed at the Waldorf Astoria hotel in New York when she was sixteen and made her first recording at age 17. Over the next few years, she performed at venues in both Latin America and the United States and hosted shows in various Peruvian television stations; her most well known show was La revista de Edith, on which she promoted Creole music. Barr retired multiple times from the music industry, first in 1971 upon her marriage. She performed for Pope John Paul II on his 1985 visit to Peru and, in 1986, was made a tourism ambassador by the Ministry of Industry and Tourism. In 2000, she was awarded an Order of Merit for Distinguished Services for her work in Peruvian music. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edith_Barr) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b...)