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 ...

Cape Verde may be cursed with an inhospitable climate, a history of desultory colonial administration and a poverty-driven diaspora so extensive that more than half its population lives abroad, but ...

PRAIA, Cape Verde (Reuters) - The Cape Verdean singer Cesaria Evora, known as the "barefoot diva," has died at age 70, according to reports over the weekend. The singer, who brought the melancholy ...

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 ...

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, ...

A cantora cabo-verdiana Cesaria Evora, 54, não canta mais o exílio, pois já voltou de Paris para a Ilha de São Vicente, onde nasceu. Também não emite mais com sua voz as agruras do povo cabo-verdiano ...

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 ...

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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 Cape Verdean singer Cesaria Evora, known as the "barefoot diva," has died at age 70, according to reports over the weekend. Dec. 18, 2011, 4:51 PM EST / Source: Reuters The Cape Verdean singer ...

There has been plenty of talk about the next Cesaria and heirs apparent, but we thankfully still have this queen of world music around. She had a stroke in 2008 and, very recently, major heart surgery ...