LISBON, Portugal - 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 ...

Cesaria Evora, who started singing as a teenager in bayside bars on the West African island nation of Cape Verde in the 1950s and won a Grammy Award in 2004 after she finally took her music to stages ...

Does the soul of a song lie in literal meaning, in which case the listener must understand the song’s language? Or, does the song travel through the ear to infuse itself within its listener’s soul, ...

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 world, died ...

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, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. WestEnd Films and Cinephil are teaming up for a feature documentary on the late Cape Verdean singer Cesária Évora. Directed by ...

LISBON - 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 world, ...

LISBON, Portugal — 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 ...

Cape Verde may be cursed with an inhospitable climate, a history of desultory colonial administration and a poverty-driven diaspora so extensive that more than half its population lives abroad, but ...

There has yet to be a wave of musicians imported from the tiny African island of Cape Verde, so fortunately the fame and impact of the wondrous songstress Cesaria Evora just continues to grow larger.