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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Google has paid tribute to musician Cesária Évora on what would have been her 78th birthday. The singer, who became famous across the globe for performing with no shoes, was born in Cape Verde on ...

Cesaria Evora, 70, who started singing as a teenager in the bayside bars of Cape Verde in the 1950s and won a Grammy Award in 2003 after she took her African islands music to stages across the world, ...

To many, she is the Queen of Morna, while for others she is the 'Barefoot Diva'. Cesária Évora was a major Cape Verdean recording artist who was born on August 27, 1941, to a part-time musician father ...

For her first American tour, singer Cesaria Evora has been visiting major cities on a great tidal wave of publicity. Some observers have compared the singer, who hails from the Cape Verde Islands, to ...

The Cape Verdean singer Cesaria Evora, known as the "barefoot diva," died Saturday, according to the culture minister of the country. The Portuguese weekly Expresso reported she died in hospital in ...

Legendary Cape Verdean singer Cesaria Evora, nicknamed the "barefoot diva", has decided to retire at 70 due to ill health. Her record label Lusafrica said the star, who has long-standing heart ...

Singer Cesaria Evora, nicknamed "the barefoot diva," died in her native Cape Verde on Saturday, three months after retiring due to ill health, the country's culture minister has announced. AP- Cesaria ...

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 ...