Cesária Évora

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Biography

Mindelo, Cape Verde (1941 – 2011)

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.

1	Sodade	365
2	Petit Pays	220
3	Sangue De Beirona	169
4	Besame mucho	155
5	Angola	124
6	Tchintchirote	109
7	Carnaval De Sao Vicente	89
8	Miss perfumado	80
8	Nho Antone Escaderode	80
10	Mar azul	74
11	Partida	72
12	Carnaval de São Vicente - Jazzy carnaval mix	70
13	Vida tem um so vida	67
14	Sentimento	60
15	Tiempo y Silencio	59