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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Sorriso largo entre os lábios, pés no chão, a "diva descalça" volta à cena. Conhecida mundialmente por não gostar de sapatos -"Sou uma cantora descalça...", disse à Folha por telefone, de Portugal- , ...

She seemed hugely modest and rather amazed at the fact that she had become a global star. I started by talking to her manager, José Da Silva. José Da Silva first came to São Vicente in Cape Verde, a ...

Back in 1999, I caught Cesaria Evora — who passed away on her native island of Sao Vicente, Cabo Verde this past Saturday at 70 years old — in a couple of shows in Boston and New Bedford. The two ...

There has yet to be a wave of musicians imported from the tiny African island of Cape Verde, so fortunately the fame and impact of the wondrous songstress Cesaria Evora just continues to grow larger.

Since breaking out internationally in the mid-90s, Cesaria Evora has single-handedly ensured that the Cape Verde Islands would evoke something more for music fans than that Horace Silver tune. Her ...