Suni Paz

Vocalist, songwriter, guitarist, and educator Suni Paz focuses on performing and saving children’s songs both in Spanish and British, pulling upon indigenous folk designs from all around the Americas. Choosing her name, Suni, indicating “enduring,” through the Quechua vocabulary (spoken within the Andean area of SOUTH USA), while Paz originated from the Spanish for “peacefulness,” she started documenting in the 1960s on Barbara Dane’s label, and do many albums for Folkways in the 1970s. Because the mid-’80s, she’s collaborated with lyricist Alma Flor Ada, and in 1997 also started dealing with lyricist/poet Isabel Francisco Campoy, who had written children’s books on Latin America and Spain with Ada. Paz, Ada, and Campoy present their music and tales at meetings on education through the entire USA and Latin America, and Paz also sings for kids at classrooms along with other general public areas. In 2006, she released Bandera Mía: Tracks of Argentina, a assortment of traditional and unique songs, to pay for tribute towards the music of her homeland.