Cesaria Evora
Cesária Évora ( 27 August 1941 - 17 December 2011) was a Cape Verdean
popular singer. Nicknamed the "barefoot diva" for performing without
shoes, Évora was perhaps the best internationally known practitioner of
"morna."
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Her bright voice and physical charms were soon noticed, but
her hope of a singing career remained unsatisfied. A Cape
Verdean women’s group and the singer
Bana both took her to Lisbon
to cut a few tracks, but the recordings failed to catch the ear of a producer.
In 1988, a young Frenchman of Cape Verdean extraction invited her to Paris to make a record.
At 47, she had nothing to lose. Having never seen Paris, she agreed and her first album was
released later in the year: La Diva Aux Pieds Nus (The Barefoot Diva) produced
by Lusafrica. The zouk-flavoured coladera “Bia Lulucha” is a hit with the Cape Verdean
community. She gave her first concert in Paris
to a small crowd at the New Morning on the 1st October.
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2011 In late September 2011, Evora's agent Lusafrica
announced that she had ended her singing career due to poor health.
On December 17, 2011, Cesária Évora died in São
Vicente, in her native Cape Verde, from cardiorespiratory
insufficiency and hypertension