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 ...
In its brief history, the Hollywood Bowl's World Festival has been far and away the most interesting, offbeat and, more often than not, most cleverly programmed series of concerts on the whole ...
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 ...
These days, vocalist Cesaria Évora spends much of her time touring, performing for foreign audiences in regions as remote as Siberia. Yet she always returns home to her native Cape Verde. "You won't ...
Cape Verde’s beloved barefoot diva, Cesaria Evora, died today. She had been ill for some time. She got her start at waterfront bars on her home town of Mindelo on the island of Sao Vicente, part of ...
‘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 ...
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, ...
WestEnd Films and Cinephil are teaming up for a feature documentary on the late Cape Verdean singer Cesária Évora. Directed by Portuguese filmmaker Ana Sofia Fonseca, the film — simply titled “Cesária ...
Cesaria Evora, 70, who started singing as a teenager in the bayside bars of Cape Verde in the 1950s and won a Grammy Award in 2003 after she took her African islands music to stages across the world, ...
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Does the soul of a song lie in literal meaning, in which case the listener must understand the song’s language? Or, does the song travel through the ear to infuse itself within its listener’s soul, ...
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 ...