Tito La Rosa
Tito La Rosa, a descendent of the Quechua Indians of the Peruvian Andes, has spent more than a decade recovering and preserving, studying and intuiting the ancestral music of Peru. Tito is a curandero de sonido—a sound healer. When performing ritual and ceremony for healing, he enters into parallel worlds to bring forth sound that elevates the vibration of an individual and allows for healing and balance to occur. Tito was asked by the Peruvian Institute of Culture to play two-thousand-year-old instruments at the Museum of the Lord of Sipan to reinvent the sounds these instruments made. In recreating the sounds of this culture that had disappeared into time, Tito stated, “Time, like death, is a lie.”
