Cesária Évora...My Baby...

Cesária Évora is my favorite singer in the world, I love this women to death,

I dance in my undies to her music. If you happen to be in the International Music section of Barnes and Nobles

Go check out her CD!!!



Cesária Évora,

born in 1941 in the port town of Mindelo on the Cape Verde island of São Vicente is a notable folk singer. She is 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.
Long known as the queen of the morna, a soulful genre (descendant of the Portuguese fado) sung in Creole-Portuguese, she mixes 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 speak of the country's long and bitter 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, highlights her emotional phrasing by accenting a word or phrase. Even audiences who do not understand her language are held spell-bound by the emotions evident in her performances.
In 2004 she won the Grammy Award for Best Contemporary World Music Album.
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Discography
La Diva aux pieds nus - 1988
Distino di Belita - 1990
Mar Azul - 1991
Miss Perfumado - 1992
Sodade, Les Plus Belles Mornas De Cesaria - 1994
Cesaria - 1995
Cabo Verde - 1997
Cafe Atlantico - 1999
Sao Vicente de Longe - 2001
Cesaria Evora Anthology - 2002
Live in Paris (DVD) - 2002
Voz D'amor - 2003
Club Sodade - Cesaria Evora by... - 2003
Live D'Amor (DVD) - 2004