These days, vocalist Cesaria Évora spends much of her time touring, performing for foreign audiences in regions as remote as Siberia. Yet she always returns home to her native Cape Verde. "You won't ...

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, ...

The Grammy-winning singer had retired in September due to health problems. By The Associated Press LISBON, Portugal — Cesaria Evora, who started singing as a teenager in the bayside bars of Cape Verde ...

Cesaria Evora died today in her native Cape Verde (Verd), an island off the West Coast of Africa. The Grammy-winning vocal artist was 70 years old. Weekends on All Things Considered host Guy Raz has a ...

On December 17, 2011, Cesária Évora, a musical ambassador of sorts for Cape Verde, left us. There was an abundance of tributes and declarations by her faithful audience, present in almost every corner ...

A few days ago, I was in Cape Verde for the Atlantic Music Expo and Kriol Jazz Fest. At this music conference, I met up with a bunch of presenters and journalists and we drove all day up the coast of ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

The title of Cesaria Evora's just-released RCA album, "Rogamar," translates into "praise the sea," or "pray to the sea," and Friday night at Royce Hall, you could feel a sultry salt-rimed languor in ...