Cesaria Evora shuffles on stage, barefoot and clutching a packet of full-strength cigarettes. All her 60 years are etched upon her lived-in face, and her close-cropped hair and sparkly tent-dress are ...

You don’t have to speak another language to understand the very human warmth gushing around you as you listen to Cape Verde singer Cesaria Evora deliver song after masterful song on her new disc, “Sao ...

So beloved in the is Cesaria Evora that wherever she sings, an audience is guaranteed. Long before a global fan base declared her the premier purveyor of the plaintive morna, Ms. Evora was well aware ...

Jose da Silva first came to Sao Vicente in Cape Verde, a group of islands a few hundred kilometres east of Senegal, after hearing Cesaria Evora sing in a Lisbon restaurant. “She was living in a ruin ...

Cesária Évora, better known as the ‘Barefoot Diva’ for her habit of always performing shoeless in solidarity with her native Cape Verde’s poverty, has died at the age of 70 on her home island of São ...

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