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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Cesária Évora Lyrics
Parti pa terra longe
Foi sempre nha ilusão
E ali ja'me está
Di sorriso falso
Margurado e triste
Ta vagá di mar em mar
Ta corrê di vento em vento
Em busca di um futuro
Entre sombras di distino
Nha vida é zig-zagueante
Sina di um fidjo caboverdeano
Num paz inconstante
Cma distino di um cigano
Um'tá vivê tormentado
Num mundo cheio di maldade
Nha sorte é dori magoado
Na um silêncio di sodade
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Phat Soares
Adeus minha querida, voçê foi uma das melhores interpretes que o mundo já teve.obrigado por vc ter existido.
francisca edilza damasceno
Como é bom ouvir Cesária Évora!
Pao-introx🇦🇷
La gran Cesaria Evora,en mi corazon por siempre!!
Antonio Roberto Vasconcelos
Mística, linda e envolvente a clarear as sombras do destino.
María Eugenia Sánchez Cabezas
Una voz maravillosa. Gracias a una señora de la canción
TheAhkenaten1
She was an extraordinary performer, person, and human being. She will be greatly missed.
foruro
A melhor cantora de todos tempos uma voz acarician-te. Cada quen ven con o seu meio de viver ela tinha uma voz inigualable. Obrigado por compartir musica y cancion
Maria José de Souza Alves
Lindo esquecer jamais,vá com DEUS.
montell torres
a mi me eleva es comomo una terapia solo la escucho cuando nesesito estar con migo mismo .sus melodias son tan dulce que me permiten dialogar con mig .o.no entiendo todo lo que dicen sus canciones pero su voz es tan dulce que supera todo y es como si cantara en espanos
Mauro Diana
Magnifica