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 ...

Back in 1999, I caught Cesaria Evora — who passed away on her native island of Sao Vicente, Cabo Verde this past Saturday at 70 years old — in a couple of shows in Boston and New Bedford. The two ...

PRAIA, Cape Verde (Reuters) - The Cape Verdean singer Cesaria Evora, known as the "barefoot diva," has died at age 70, according to reports over the weekend. The singer, who brought the melancholy ...

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 ...

Before Cesaria Evora, many people in Europe and the U.S. didn’t know where Cape Verde was. But the Grammy-winning “barefoot diva” of Cape Verde has helped put her archipelago nation – located more ...

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 ...

A man carrying a bottle of cognac in a box burst into a dressing room backstage at the Walt Disney Concert Hall on Tuesday night as singer Cesaria Evora waited to perform to a sold-out crowd. Joe ...

The death of Grammy-award-winning singer Cesaria Evora – synonymous with the Cape Verde Islands around the world – is still being felt by ex-pats living in Massachusetts, three weeks after her passing ...