Cesária Évora (1941-2011) was a morna singa from Cape Verde. She was known… Read Full Bio ↴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, 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, 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 - B.Leza
Dixa'm morrê ta sonhá
Na sombra di odjo magoado
Duma pequena gentil
Di um corpo perfumado
Dixa'm morrê ta sonhá
Na sombra di odjo magoado
Duma pequena gentil
Di um corpo perfumado
Assim dixa'm môrré ô flor
Na sombra di bô odjinho
Dixa'm morré ta sonhá
Assim cuma pomba nasce ninho
Assim dixa'm môrré ô flor
Na sombra di bô odjinho
Dixa'm morré ta sonhá
Assim cuma pomba nasce ninho
Si pomba é feliz nasce ninho
A mim também mi é feliz
Na sombra di odjo ma carinho
Di um miss perfumado
Si pomba é feliz nasce ninho
A mim também mi é feliz
Na sombra di odjo ma carinho
Di um miss perfumado
Assim dixa'm môrré ô flor
Na sombra di bô odjinho
Dixa'm morré ta sonhá
Assim cuma pomba nasce ninho
Assim dixa'm môrré ô flor
Na sombra di bô odjinho
Dixa'm morré ta sonhá
Assim cuma pomba nasce ninho
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Dixa'm morrê ta sonhá
Na sombra di odjo magoado
Duma pequena gentil
Di corpo perfumado
Assim dixa'm môrré ô flor
Na sombra di bô odjinho
Dixa'm morré ta sonhá
Assim cuma pomba na sê ninho
Si pomba é feliz na sê ninho
A mim também mi é feliz
Na sombra di odjo ma carinho
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Dixa'm morrê ta sonhá
Na sombra di bô odjo magoado
Duma pequena gentil
Di um corpo perfumado
Assim dixa'm môrré, ô flor
Na sombra di bô odjinho
Dixa'm morré ta sonhá
Assim cuma pomba na sê ninho
Si pomba é feliz na sê ninho
A mi também mi é feliz
Na sombra di bô odjo ma carinho
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Ольга Михайловна
Сезария,ты наш Прекрасный цветок далёких островов,душистый благоуханный цветок,
Твой голос навсегда остался в наших сердцах
ZCCS1
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Cesária Évora - B.Leza
Dixa'm morrê ta sonhá
Na sombra di odjo magoado
Duma pequena gentil
Di um corpo perfumado
Dixa'm morrê ta sonhá
Na sombra di odjo magoado
Duma pequena gentil
Di um corpo perfumado
Assim dixa'm môrré ô flor
Na sombra di bô odjinho
Dixa'm morré ta sonhá
Assim cuma pomba nasce ninho
Assim dixa'm môrré ô flor
Na sombra di bô odjinho
Dixa'm morré ta sonhá
Assim cuma pomba nasce ninho
Si pomba é feliz nasce ninho
A mim também mi é feliz
Na sombra di odjo ma carinho
Di um miss perfumado
Si pomba é feliz nasce ninho
A mim também mi é feliz
Na sombra di odjo ma carinho
Di um miss perfumado
Assim dixa'm môrré ô flor
Na sombra di bô odjinho
Dixa'm morré ta sonhá
Assim cuma pomba nasce ninho
Assim dixa'm môrré ô flor
Na sombra di bô odjinho
Dixa'm morré ta sonhá
Assim cuma pomba nasce ninho
Hassan Ziha
Magnifique voix ❤⚘❤⚘Adieu Cesaria tes chansons demeureront à jamais dans nos coeurs 😢
nelson monteiro
The arrangements of maestro Paulino Vieira are just wonderful.
Marko Loparic
Yes! This piano!
Anna Maksimova
Не знаю о чём так
прекрасно поёт Cesaria Evora!Но в её
пении слышна почти
Вселенская грусть!
Eduardo Lagos
Su música es un viaje . La gran cesaría evora
wesley silva
essa musica e o que eu chamo de pura inspiraçao. linda melodia ,voz arranjo tudo perfeito.
Sandro Felix
Ela me emociona muitíssimo!
maufeitio
Dixa'm morrê ta sonhá
Na sombra di odjo magoado
Duma pequena gentil
Di corpo perfumado
Assim dixa'm môrré ô flor
Na sombra di bô odjinho
Dixa'm morré ta sonhá
Assim cuma pomba na sê ninho
Si pomba é feliz na sê ninho
A mim também mi é feliz
Na sombra di odjo ma carinho
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