The "Barefoot Diva" died in the Baptista de Sousa Hospital in Cape Verde Lisbon: Cesaria Evora, who started singing as a teenager in the bayside bars of Cape Verde in the 1950s and won a Grammy in ...

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 ...

Nassir Nassirzadeh sits in for Chris Douridas. Indie found sounds, nostalgic guilty pleasures, and introspective piano solos to help you feel deeply and move freely through life. Nassir Nassirzadeh ...

The curator of a new exhibition in Paris dedicated to the legendary barefoot diva, Cesaria Evora, spoke to FRANCE 24 about the singer's profound influence on world music. Evora began her career as a ...

The curator of a new exhibition in Paris dedicated to the legendary barefoot diva, Cesaria Evora, spoke to FRANCE 24 about the singer's profound influence on world music. Evora began her career as a ...

But it all started in Mindelo, Portuguese colony island of Cape Verde in the pre-independence early 1960s, with a craze for a very emotionally expressive varied-tempo music type called coledera, a ...

Mindelo, a small port city on the island of São Vicente in Cape Verde, was once home to Cesaria Evora. She was celebrated around the world for her morna style - a nostalgic musical genre now ...

The African Cape Verde islands have their own distinct genre of music and dance known as "morna”. It’s mostly in evidence during the carnival season across the archipelago that’s located in the ...

‘Cesária Évora,’ an intimate documentary about the late Cape Verdean Grammy-winning singer by Portugal’s director/journalist Ana Sofia Fonseca, has been named for an International Documentary ...

Cesária Évora is a loving testament to the most famous voice in Cape Verde: on stage and off. The documentary has opened in Portugese cinemas and traces the life of the barefoot diva. It is the work ...