THIS veteran singer from the Atlantic island of Cape Verde specialises in what are known as "mornas", slow, soulful shuffles with a bluesy feel and mournful lyrics about regret, heartbreak and ...

Cesária Évora was a Cape Verdean singer-songwriter. She received a Grammy Award in 2004 for her album Voz d'Amor. Nicknamed the "Barefoot Diva" for performing without shoes, she was known as the ...

Cesaria Evora, the Grammy-winning singer from Cape Verde who brought that nation’s morna music to a wide international audience, died today, her label Lusafrica reported. She was 70 years old. Evora, ...

The Cape Verdean singer Cesaria Evora, known as the "barefoot diva," has died at age 70, according to reports over the weekend. Dec. 18, 2011, 4:51 PM EST / Source: Reuters The Cape Verdean singer ...

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 ...

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 ...