Alicia Rosa Maguiña Málaga (28 November 1938 – 14 September 2020"Alicia Maguiña: La famosa compositora peruana falleció esta madrugada a los 81 años"
Retrieved 14, September, 2020) was a Peruvian

composer A composer is a person who writes music. The term is especially used to indicate composers of Western classical music, or those who are composers by occupation. Many composers are, or were, also skilled performers of music. Etymology and def ...

and singer linked to

Peruvian waltz The vals criollo (), or Peruvian waltz (), is an adaptation of the European waltz brought to the Americas during colonial times by Spain. In the Viceroyalty of Peru, the waltz was gradually adapted to the likings of the Criollo people. In the ...

music. Her song ''Indio'' is said to express her solidarity with

indigenous Peruvians The Indigenous peoples of Peru or Indigenous Peruvians comprise a large number of ethnic groups who inhabit territory in present-day Peru. Indigenous cultures developed here for thousands of years before the arrival of the Spanish in 1532. In 2 ...

and their suffering.

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* Peruvian singer-songwriters Peruvian women singer-songwriters 20th-century Peruvian women singers 20th-century Peruvian singers Peruvian women composers Singers from Lima 1938 births 2020 deaths 20th-century Peruvian composers 20th-century women composers {{Peru-musician-stub