Ana Sofia Fonseca’s feature documentary Cesária Évora opens with hand-held, bootleg-style footage of the legendary Cabo Verdean morna singer in rehearsal. It is visually inauspicious but subtly ...
Singer Cesaria Evora is the cultural ambassador and greatest star of her native country, Cape Verde, a former Portuguese colony off the Northwestern coast of Africa. She excels at the highly stylized ...
After a lifetime of poverty, Évora found huge success aged 51 with 1992 album Miss Perfumado. As Cape Verdean singers celebrate her morna ballads on stage, those who knew her recall her power, pride a ...
Cesaria Evora, the “barefoot diva” of Cape Verde, made her Orange County debut Saturday night at the Orange County Performing Arts Center. She brought with her a well-synchronized, nine-member band ...
Before Cesaria Evora, many people in Europe and the U.S. didn’t know where Cape Verde was. But the Grammy-winning “barefoot diva” of Cape Verde has helped put her archipelago nation – located more ...
Cesaria Evora has been likened to some of the world’s greatest vocalists: Billie Holiday, Amalia Rodrigues and Edith Piaf. While such comparisons evoke the Cape Verdean singer’s stature and authority, ...
For her first American tour, singer Cesaria Evora has been visiting major cities on a great tidal wave of publicity. Some observers have compared the singer, who hails from the Cape Verde Islands, to ...
Cesaria Evora, who started singing as a teenager in the bayside bars of Cape Verde in the 1950s and won a Grammy in 2003 after she took her African islands' music to stages across the world, died ...
Singer Cesaria Evora is the cultural ambassador and greatest star of her native country, Cape Verde, a former Portuguese colony off the Northwestern coast of Africa. She excels at the highly stylized ...
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