Cesária Évora (1941-2011) was a morna singa from Cape Verde. She was known as the "barefoot diva" because of her propensity to appear on stage in her bare feet in support of the homeless and poor women and children of her country.
Born on the 27th August 1941 in the port town of Mindelo, Cape Verde, on the island of São Vicente. Long known as the queen of the morna, a soulful genre (related to the Portuguese fado) sung in Creole-Portuguese, Read Full BioCesária Évora (1941-2011) was a morna singa from Cape Verde. She was known as the "barefoot diva" because of her propensity to appear on stage in her bare feet in support of the homeless and poor women and children of her country.
Born on the 27th August 1941 in the port town of Mindelo, Cape Verde, on the island of São Vicente. Long known as the queen of the morna, a soulful genre (related to the Portuguese fado) sung in Creole-Portuguese, she mixed her sentimental folk tunes filled with longing and sadness with the acoustic sounds of guitar, cavaquinho, violin, accordion, and clarinet. Évora's Cape Verdean blues often spoke of the country's history of isolation and slave trade, as well as emigration; almost two-thirds of the million Cape Verdeans alive live abroad.
Évora's voice, a finely-tuned, melancholy instrument with a touch of hoarseness, highlighted her emotional phrasing by accenting a word or phrase. Even audiences who do not understand her language could be held spell-bound by the emotions evident in her performances.
In 2004 she won the Grammy Award for Best Contemporary World Music Album.
A heavy smoker for decades, Évora was diagnosed with heart problems in 2005. She suffered strokes in 2008 and in September 2011, when she announced she was retiring. She died at the age of seventy in São Vicente, Cape Verde on the 17th December 2011 from respiratory failure and hypertension. A Spanish newspaper reported that forty-eight hours before her death she was still receiving people in her home in Mindelo, popular for always having its doors open.
Born on the 27th August 1941 in the port town of Mindelo, Cape Verde, on the island of São Vicente. Long known as the queen of the morna, a soulful genre (related to the Portuguese fado) sung in Creole-Portuguese, Read Full BioCesária Évora (1941-2011) was a morna singa from Cape Verde. She was known as the "barefoot diva" because of her propensity to appear on stage in her bare feet in support of the homeless and poor women and children of her country.
Born on the 27th August 1941 in the port town of Mindelo, Cape Verde, on the island of São Vicente. Long known as the queen of the morna, a soulful genre (related to the Portuguese fado) sung in Creole-Portuguese, she mixed her sentimental folk tunes filled with longing and sadness with the acoustic sounds of guitar, cavaquinho, violin, accordion, and clarinet. Évora's Cape Verdean blues often spoke of the country's history of isolation and slave trade, as well as emigration; almost two-thirds of the million Cape Verdeans alive live abroad.
Évora's voice, a finely-tuned, melancholy instrument with a touch of hoarseness, highlighted her emotional phrasing by accenting a word or phrase. Even audiences who do not understand her language could be held spell-bound by the emotions evident in her performances.
In 2004 she won the Grammy Award for Best Contemporary World Music Album.
A heavy smoker for decades, Évora was diagnosed with heart problems in 2005. She suffered strokes in 2008 and in September 2011, when she announced she was retiring. She died at the age of seventy in São Vicente, Cape Verde on the 17th December 2011 from respiratory failure and hypertension. A Spanish newspaper reported that forty-eight hours before her death she was still receiving people in her home in Mindelo, popular for always having its doors open.
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Tchintchirote
Cesária Évora Lyrics
Odjá menina A bô catem comparação
Bô ta papiá di mas
Si ma tchintchirote na figuera
Ess bô má flado
Tudo alguem ja ta conchêl
Qu' ess boca grande ragonhode
Bô ta papiá mas quì ninguem
Ma flado flá
Mi nha boca ca está là
Na nha porta'm ca qu're odjá-bô
Nem mantenha ca bô fla-me
Gossi qui bô quei na bô asnera
Guentà na bô rabo
Pa mô mim 'm tem medo
Di tribunal
TCHINTCHIROTE
(pequeno pássaro
Das Ilhas de Cabo Verde)
Ouve, minha menina
Como tu não há igual Falas demais
Como o tchitchirote na figueira
A tua fama
Já todo o mundo a conhece
Com essa boca gran de
Tu falas mais que ninguém
Mas p'ra mexericos
A minha boca não dá
Não te quero à minha porta
Nem para me saudar
Agora que caiste em asneira
Tens de aguentar sozinha
Ouanto a mim, tenho medo
Do tribunal
Contributed by Joshua H. Suggest a correction in the comments below.
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A Carol Morais
Odjá menina A bô catem comparação
Bô ta papiá di mas
Si ma tchintchirote na figuera
Ess bô má flado
Tudo alguém já tá conchêl
Que essa boca grande ragonhode
Bô ta papiá mas quì ninguém
Odjá menina a bô catem comparação
Bô ta papiá di mas
Si ma tchintchirote na figuera
Ess bô má flado
Tudo alguém já tá conchêl
Que essa boca grande ragonhode
Bô ta papiá mas quì ninguém
Ma flado flá
Mi nha boca ca está lá
Na nha porta'm ca qu're odjá-bô
Nem mantenha ca bô fla-me
Ma flado flá
Mi nha boca ca está lá
Na nha porta'm ca qu're odjá-bô
Nem mantenha ca bô fla-me
Gossi qui bô quei na bô asnera
Guenta na bô rabo
Pa mô mim 'm tem medo di tribunal
Gossi qui bô quei na bô asnera
Guenta na bô rabo
Pa mô mim 'm tem medo di tribunal
Ma flado flá
Mi nha boca ca está lá
Na nha porta'm ca qu're odjá-bô
Nem mantenha ca bô fla-me
Ma flado flá
Mi nha boca ca está lá
Na nha porta'm ca qu're odjá-bô
Nem mantenha ca bô fla-me
Gossi qui bô quei na bô asnera
Guenta na bô rabo
Pa mô mim 'm tem medo di tribunal
Gossi qui bô quei na bô asnera
Guenta na bô rabo
Pa mô mim 'm tem medo di tribunal
Ma flado flá
Mi nha boca ca está lá
Na nha porta'm ca qu're odjá-bô
Nem mantenha ca bô fla-me
Ma flado flá
Mi nha boca ca está lá
Na nha porta'm ca qu're odjá-bô
Nem mantenha ca bô fla-me
Ma flado flá
Mi nha boca ca está lá
Na nha porta'm ca qu're odjá-bô
Nem mantenha ca bô fla-me
Ma flado flá
Mi nha boca ca está lá
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Kukua Blackmore
Who else is here because of Google🤗?
gerard jansens
im not
(unless ur also counting using google to get here)
Bev Homeniek
@bg shawn i wonder why i was here??....google
Dona Donova
Me :-)
Steven Baker
Hallo world! Let's dance!
kobouta
Moi !!
Nomadicmonkey
Google Doodles sometimes work wonders.
ArGyProductions
I don't suppose any of you see this saw her beautiful music video - https://youtu.be/ky5yjog0O0k
mikely obino
i come to know her through Google Doodles and i follow her in to you tub and i heard her singing
and i saw why she is such a great voice
Mayflower Os
Google Doodles brought me here :( . Now I am stuck