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Silvio Tanaka / As fotos da Virada!, 2008, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Flickr · Photograph of Cesaria Evora performing at the Virada Cultural in Sao Paulo on 26 April 2008, credited 'Foto: Silvio Tanaka' on the Flickr account 'As fotos da Virada!' (account name Expansao Cultural), which published it under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 licence. The live Flickr photo page (checked 2026-10-30) shows the licence as CC BY-SA 2.0 on the photo itself, the account name and the photographer credit; the Wikimedia Commons file carries the same licence with an automated Flickr licence-review pass (2015). The camera data in the file (Nikon D80) is consistent with an event photographer. The licensor is the event's account, with the named photographer credited in the description; no statement from the photographer was found. Original 2592 x 3872 pixels, downscaled to 803 x 1200 with no cropping and no upscaling. Share-alike applies to adaptations of this image. · CC BY-SA 2.0
singer · 20th Century
Cesaria Evora
1941–2011
Known For
artisticcultural
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Key Achievements
She was the best-known performer of morna, Cape Verde's national music, and carried it to audiences around the world.
Her 1988 album La Diva aux pieds nus, recorded in Paris, began her international career, and Miss perfumado (1992) made her widely popular in Europe and led to a world tour.
She won a Grammy Award for her album Voz d'Amor, in the Best Contemporary World Music Album category according to the Recording Academy.
Moments That Reveal Them
Her first major US tour in autumn 1995 drew sell-out performances and standing ovations at the Montreal Jazz Festival that year, according to Contemporary Black Biography.
This is consistent with an ability to carry a local style onto very different stages and audiences. Adaptability
Turning Points
In 1988, at 47, she went to Paris at promoter Jose da Silva's invitation and recorded La Diva aux pieds nus, saying she had to record in France because she could find no help in Cape Verde.
This is consistent with taking up an outside opportunity to continue her career. Adaptability
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Sources
- Cesaria Evora (Q103759), verified live via the Wikidata API (2026-10-28): label 'Cesária Évora', description 'Cape Verdean singer-songwriter (1941-2011)', born 1941-08-27, died 2011-12-17, citizenship Cape Verde (Q1011), Korean label '세자리아 에보라', P18 images include 'Cesária Évora (2457851527).jpg'. Orientation only; not used as support for any row.
- Encyclopaedia Britannica, 'Cesaria Evora' (print version, revised December 2025), read in full. CANONICAL SIGNIFICANCE SOURCE: Cape Verdean singer known for her rich, haunting voice, who sang mornas and coladeras in Creole-Portuguese in the bars of Mindelo, stopped performing publicly in the mid-1970s, resumed in 1985, was brought to Paris by promoter Jose da Silva, gained attention with La Diva aux pieds nus (1988), won widespread popularity with Miss perfumado (1992) and an international tour, won a 2003 Grammy for Voz d'amor, and released a final 2010 album of duets with musicians from more than 15 countries. Short general-encyclopedia entry; it attributes her break to 'financial and personal issues' and the 1970s turmoil, which are not used here.
- Ed Decker, 'Evora, Cesaria 1941-', Contemporary Black Biography (Gale, via Encyclopedia.com), read in full (about 30,000 characters including references): her repertoire of songs by Cape Verdean songwriters, her own remarks on singing for ships and tourists and on recording in France because she found no help at home, the 1960s radio tapes, the break in public singing in the 1970s, the 1985 return, the Lusafrica recordings, the 1995 US tour and critics' reviews (Washington Post, New York Times, Village Voice quoted), and her accompanist Luis Morais. Compiled from 1990s press and record-company publicity material, so partly promotional; the pieces on her personal life, drinking and marriages are not used.
- A. D. McKenzie, 'Cesaria Evora - Cape Verde's Barefoot Diva Wows Europe', Inter Press Service, 3 June 1997, read in full (about 9,000 characters): a Brussels concert and dressing-room interview, her description of herself as an interpreter who does not write her own lyrics, her uncle B. Leza as composer, her accompanist Luis Morais, the 1988 and 1992 records, the world tour, Brazilian musicians welcoming her and her choice to move her warm-up from liquor to coffee. News feature written during her career; sympathetic and partly drawn from her own words.
- Daoud Tyler-Ameen, 'Cesaria Evora, Grammy-Winning Cape Verdean Singer, Has Died', NPR (17 December 2011, copy on KASU), read in full: perhaps the most widely known performer of morna, singing professionally as a teenager as the only woman in a group touring the islands, not gaining international attention until the late 1980s, a Grammy for Voz d'Amor, and 2007 interview remarks on how she began and on her homeland. Short broadcaster obituary; notes the Grammy year as 2004 where the Grammy site and Britannica say the 2003 awards.
- Barry Hatton, 'Grammy-winning Barefoot Diva Cesaria Evora dies at 70', Associated Press (17 December 2011, copy on Global News), read in full: her start in Mindelo's waterfront bars, the 1988 album that launched her international career, the 1995 album Cesaria released in more than a dozen countries, the Grammy for Voz d'Amor, her description of morna to the AP in 2000, her return to Mindelo whenever she could and her retirement. Wire obituary; includes Le Monde's 1991 praise.
- Abdul Ahad, 'Cape Verde's barefoot diva Cesaria Evora dies', Agence France-Presse (17 December 2011, copy on Business Recorder), read in full: 10 studio albums and an anthology of radio recordings, her success from 1992 and a punishing schedule of world concerts, her 2004 Grammy, the 2008 stroke after a Melbourne concert and a 2009 album, the 2010 French decoration, her 2011 Paris concert and retirement, and tributes by Cape Verde's president and prime minister. Wire obituary by a different agency from the AP one; it also carries sensational personal detail (alcohol, poverty) that is not used here.
- Recording Academy, 'Cesaria Evora Dies' (grammy.com news, 2011 item), read in full: GRAMMY-winning world music artist, morna described, 1988 debut international album La Diva Aux Pieds Nus recorded in Paris, three more albums in France through 1992, first large-scale US tour in 1995, and a Grammy for Best Contemporary World Music Album for Voz D'Amor. Very short award-body obituary used for the awards facts only.