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 ...

I was recently on a plane en route from Praia, Cape Verde to Lisbon and was sitting next to a Cape Verdean who’ve I’ve known for many years. He was the tour manager of the late Cesaria Evora, who ...

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 ...

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 ...

Cesária Evora, who has died aged 70, won international acclaim as a singer when she brought the haunting music of her native Cape Verde to concert platforms around the world. 18 December 2011 • 1:30pm ...

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 ...

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 ...