THIS veteran singer from the Atlantic island of Cape Verde specialises in what are known as "mornas", slow, soulful shuffles with a bluesy feel and mournful lyrics about regret, heartbreak and ...

Cape Verdean singer Cesaria Evora has been a worldwide sensation for the past 15 years. By Billboard Staff Cape Verdean singer Cesaria Evora has been a worldwide sensation for the past 15 years. She ...

The title of Cesaria Evora's latest album, "Voz d'Amor," suggests a small but crucial shift in the Cape Verdean singer's style. In 1991, when the then-50-year-old "barefoot diva" was first introduced ...

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, ...

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 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 ...

Cesária Évora, the Grammy-winning singer from the West African island nation of Cape Verde, has died, the Associated Press reported Saturday. She was 70. Évora was perhaps the most widely known ...

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 ...

Cesaria Evora" is by far the best known Cape Verdean musician today, with sales of over 4 million albums. After being discovered at home at the age of 20, she took time off to raise a family, ...

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" is by far the best known Cape Verdean musician today, with sales of over 4 million albums. After being discovered at home at the age of 20, she took time off to raise a family, ...