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 ...

Cesária Évora, the Grammy-winning singer from Cape Verde, died on Saturday on her native island of Sao Vicente in Cape Verde, according to a statement released by her label, Lusafrica, on its website.

When Grammy Award®-winner Cesária Évora suddenly left us on December 17, 2011, there was a huge outpouring of emotion from her fans. In 2012, thousands flocked to pay their respects at a series of ...

LISBON, Portuga - Cesaria Evora, who started singing as a teenager in the bayside bars of Cape Verde in the 1950s and won a Grammy in 2003 after she took her African islands music to stages across the ...