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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Mar Azul
Cesária Évora Lyrics
O... Mar, detá quitinho bô dixam bai
Bô dixam bai spiá nha terra
Bô dixam bai salvá nha Mâe...
Oh Mar
Mar azul, subi mansinho
Lua cheia lumiam caminho
Pam ba nha terra di meu
São Vicente pequinino, pam bà braçá nha cretcheu...
Oh... Mar, anô passá tempo corrê
Sol raiá, lua sai
A mi ausente na terra longe...
O Mar
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Erica Barbosa
Pra minha mãe ❤️❤️
Franco Anderson
ok, mas a musica fala de mar e não de mãe kk
paloma lion
Estas imágenes son preciosas wow y la canción igual e impresionante💖💖💖💖💖💖💖👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👌👌🚤gracias mari.m5/12/2018
Izabel Cristina
Belíssima ♥️
Maria Fernández
Mar azul.... Fuente de la más profunda inspiración para las almas sensibles y puras, como la de mi querida e inolvidable Cesaría Evita... Toda la inmensidad y belleza de tu mar azul... tu Sodade.. tu tiempo y silencio... que con tu voz y tus músicos nos cautivaste ,seguirán sonando en nuestros corazones.. cada día un: Descansa en paz y rosas y flores desde tu Cabo Verde... Gracias por el video... Excelente!! Saludos desde mi amada Venezuela...
Coral Lothbrok
Maria Fernández Cesaria es talento inquebrantable y lleva a su gran inspiración por doquier, con su alma llena de Mar. Una mujer digna de admirar en todo sentido. Artística, libre y marina. 🌊
TheSeaEmilka77
I LOVE CESARIA..SUPER SONG AND GREAT VIDEO..TH-UP..HUGS, MARI , TO YOU..:):)
tlemospeixoto
EXCELENTE, TUDO EXCELENTE!
Araceli Quiñonez
Toda la nostalgia, en esta canción , de Cesaria Evora su Sodade
rayooo blanco
contempla