On December 17, 2011, Cesária Évora, a musical ambassador of sorts for Cape Verde, left us. There was an abundance of tributes and declarations by her faithful audience, present in almost every corner ...

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 ...

O Governo cabo-verdiano espera celebrar no primeiro trimestre de 2025 um protocolo formal com a família de Cesária Évora, cantora que levou a morna para o mundo, para criação de uma casa-museu na ilha ...

"Cesária Évora está bem, e chegou sexta-feira a Cabo Verde", disse fonte da Tumbao, a promotora que a representa em Portugal. A mesma fonte afirmou "que, para evitar comoções" à cantora quando da ...

Morna, traditional music and dance from Cape Verde, was approved by UNESCO as an Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. This was announced by Cape Verde’s Minister of Culture, Abraão Vicente, on 7 ...

ALTHOUGH SHE'S still hailed as the queen (or even "goddess") of morna, the lamentory ballad style of her native Cape Verde islands, Cesaria Evora just isn't all that bummed out these days. Like its ...

Cesaria Evora, the Grammy-winning singer from Cape Verde who brought that nation’s morna music to a wide international audience, died today, her label Lusafrica reported. She was 70 years old. Evora, ...

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 ...

World Music presents Cape Verde's Cesaria Évora at 8 p.m. Saturday at the Berklee Performance Center in Boston. Widely considered Cape Verde's finest and most popular female vocalist, Cesaria Évora ...

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