In its brief history, the Hollywood Bowl's World Festival has been far and away the most interesting, offbeat and, more often than not, most cleverly programmed series of concerts on the whole ...

NEW YORK — Half a block isn’t such a long way, even on a midtown sidewalk teeming with people. But the walk from her chauffeured sedan to the talent entrance for “The Late Show With David Letterman” ...

Hers is the beguiling voice of longing, cured by cognac, cigarettes and melancholy. In the decade since she was plucked from the obscurity of a Lisbon bar, Cesaria Evora has become an international ...

So beloved in the is Cesaria Evora that wherever she sings, an audience is guaranteed. Long before a global fan base declared her the premier purveyor of the plaintive morna, Ms. Evora was well aware ...

Cesária Évora, better known as the ‘Barefoot Diva’ for her habit of always performing shoeless in solidarity with her native Cape Verde’s poverty, has died at the age of 70 on her home island of São ...

He heard Evora perform in a Lisbon restaurant, and invited her to record an album in Paris. "Cesaria later told me that no one had ever asked her to record a full album before, and that she had always ...

She seemed hugely modest and rather amazed at the fact that she had become a global star. I started by talking to her manager, José Da Silva. José Da Silva first came to São Vicente in Cape Verde, a ...

Jose da Silva first came to Sao Vicente in Cape Verde, a group of islands a few hundred kilometres east of Senegal, after hearing Cesaria Evora sing in a Lisbon restaurant. “She was living in a ruin ...

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, ...

‘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 ...

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 ...