Singer Cesaria Evora is the cultural ambassador and greatest star of her native country, Cape Verde, a former Portuguese colony off the Northwestern coast of Africa. She excels at the highly stylized ...

‘Cesária Évora,’ an intimate documentary about the late Cape Verdean Grammy-winning singer by Portugal’s director/journalist Ana Sofia Fonseca, has been named for an International Documentary ...

Cesaria Evora has been likened to some of the world’s greatest vocalists: Billie Holiday, Amalia Rodrigues and Edith Piaf. While such comparisons evoke the Cape Verdean singer’s stature and authority, ...

Cape Verde’s beloved barefoot diva, Cesaria Evora, died today. She had been ill for some time. She got her start at waterfront bars on her home town of Mindelo on the island of Sao Vicente, part of ...

Singer Cesaria Evora is the cultural ambassador and greatest star of her native country, Cape Verde, a former Portuguese colony off the Northwestern coast of Africa. She excels at the highly stylized ...