A few days ago, I was in Cape Verde for the Atlantic Music Expo and Kriol Jazz Fest. At this music conference, I met up with a bunch of presenters and journalists and we drove all day up the coast of ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

To many, she is the Queen of Morna, while for others she is the 'Barefoot Diva'. Cesária Évora was a major Cape Verdean recording artist who was born on August 27, 1941, to a part-time musician father ...

Cesaria Evora died today in her native Cape Verde (Verd), an island off the West Coast of Africa. The Grammy-winning vocal artist was 70 years old. Weekends on All Things Considered host Guy Raz has a ...

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 ...

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 ...

The title of Cesaria Evora's just-released RCA album, "Rogamar," translates into "praise the sea," or "pray to the sea," and Friday night at Royce Hall, you could feel a sultry salt-rimed languor in ...