Cesaria Evora : discography
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Album : L'essentiel Label : BMG Year : 2001 |
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Album : Sao vicente di longe Label : RCA Year : 2001 |
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Album : Cafe Atlantico Label : RCA Year : 1999 |
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Album : Best of Cesaria Evora Label : RCA Year : 1998 |
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Album : Cabo Verde Label : RCA Year : 1997 |
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Album : A l'Olympia Label : Mélodie Year : 1996 |
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Album : Cesaria Label : RCA Year : 1995 |
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Album : Sodade Label : RCA Year : 1994 |
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Album : Miss perfumado Label : Lusafrica Year : 1992 Ref : CD 79540-2 |
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Album : Mar azul Label : Lusafrica Year : 1991 Ref : CD 533 |
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Album : La diva aux pied nus Label : Lusafrica Year : 1989 Ref : CD 824 |
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Album : Distino di belita Label : Lusafrica Ref : CD 526 |
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News about Cesaria Evora
For twenty years, Cape Verdean music has been personified internationally by just one singer, the magnificent Cesaria Evora-the "barefoot diva," so-called following her decision always to perform shoeless, in ... via All About Jazz
Source : Topix.net | 2008-04-25 07:53:01.0
How the 'Barefoot Diva' is Captivating the World
IF YOU KNOW WHERE CAPE VERde is, chances are that it is because you have come across Cesaria Evora, the "barefoot diva" who has made the music of her native country, once ruled by the Portuguese, popular around the world.
Source : AllAfrica | 2008-03-24 19:07:04.0
Cesaria Evora suffers stroke in Australia
Australia WOMADELAIDE headline act Cesaria Evora has been forced to cancel her appearance
after suffering a stroke in Sydney.
The 66-year-old singer from Cape Verde was due to star at Womadelaide tonight and
tomorrow following Sydney Opera House performances earlier this week.
She was admitted to hospital for tests after feeling unwell for a few days.
"She suffered a minor stroke," Womadelaide director Ian Scobie said yesterday. "I
spoke to her doctors this morning and she is unable to continue with the tour, which
is very sad. The good news is that she will make a full recovery and after a few
days she will be able to travel home."
Evora's band will perform an instrumental set as a tribute to her at Womadelaide.
Evora is known as the "Barefoot Diva" for performing without shoes in support of
disadvantaged women and children in her country.
She first learned to perform in an orphanage choir and sings in a soulful Creole
Portuguese style c...
Source : worldmusiccentral.org | 2008-03-11 10:47:12.0
Cesaria Evora suffers stroke in Australia
Australia - WOMADELAIDE headline act Cesaria Evora has been forced to cancel her appearance after suffering a stroke in Sydney. The 66-year-old singer from Cape Verde was due to star at Womadelaide tonight and tomorrow following Sydney Opera House performances earlier this week. She was admitted to hospital for tests after feeling unwell for a few days.
"She suffered a minor stroke," Womadelaide director Ian Scobie said yesterday. "I spoke to her doctors this morning and she is unable to continue with the tour, which is very sad. The good news is that she will make a full recovery and after a few days she will be able to travel home."
Evora's band will perform an instrumental set as a tribute to her at Womadelaid...
Source : worldmusiccentral.org | 2008-03-11 10:47:00.0
CESARIA EVORA
The Cape Verdian gem Cesaria Evora takes her saudade to the WOMADelaide festival in Australia that opens on March 7th.
Source : mondomix.com | 2008-03-04 18:33:24.0
Source: S o Vicente Di Longe 10 Negue.mp3 "Morna is like the blues because it is a way to express life's suffering in music." Born on August 27, 1941 in the small port of Mindelo on the Cape Verde island of Sao ... via Breath of life
Source : Topix.net | 2008-01-23 01:35:54.0
Travels with Lonely Planet | Cape Verde
Candy-colored, cobblestoned Mindelo harbors Cape Verde's rich artistic heritage, best evidenced by songstress Cesaria Evora. via MiamiHerald.com
Source : Topix.net | 2008-01-21 01:23:05.0
Simon Broughton, Evening Standard 19.11.07 Lyrical: Cesaria Evora Look here too Garbarek the enigma soars to a sparky beat Cesaria Evora's CV is one of the heart-warming stories of world music. via This is London
Source : Topix.net | 2007-11-19 20:22:10.0
Cesaria Evora and Cuban Music
Known as ?the diva of the barefoot?, she started in Santander,
Cantabria, the launch of her CD ?Café Atlántico?, an album which
gathers some of the most famous themes, recorded Cesaria Évora during
her presentations in Havana, with the notable participation of
outstanding Cuban musicians.
Source : africahit.com | 2007-11-19 06:42:00.0
Cesaria Evora arrives; "The Night of the Adeaters"
"If I'd known young people could die, I'd never have loved anyone"
The Cape Verdean star, hailed as one of the most influential black voices in the world, has enjoyed a truly exceptional destiny, rising from rags to riches in the course of her long career. via Kyiv Post
Source : Topix.net | 2007-11-15 19:57:55.0
Ras Nas at Oslo World Music Festival, Norway
Ras Nas a.k.a. Nasibu Mwanukuzi, a musician and poet from Tanzania, is one of the artists at this year’s Oslo World Music Festival. The Festival, one of the biggest in Scandinavia in the World Music genre, takes place in Oslo, Norway from 30th October – 4th November.
This year’s Oslo World Music Festival theme is “Strong Women Voices” and female artists from different corners of the world are well represented. The Spanish flamenco star Estrella Morente has the honor of opening the festival.
Among other artists are Cesaria Evora, Seun Kuti & the Fela Egypt 80, Rachid Taha and the fast rising S...
Source : worldmusiccentral.org | 2007-10-11 01:40:37.0
Until now, for most people, the music of the Cape Verde islands has started and finished with the singer Cesaria Evora, who arrived on the international stage, aged 47, with the album La Diva Aux Pieds Nus , ... via All About Jazz
Source : Topix.net | 2007-09-04 04:07:43.0
"You find a kind of sadness in saudade. Sometimes (something deeper), what you miss, but deeper than 'miss'. Saudade is what a Cape Verdean feels when somebody leaves the country."
CESARIA Evora's name is synonymous with the ocean. A native of the former Portuguese colony of Cape Verde , she is the world's leading exponent of "morna", a melancholic but celebratory folk music arising from ... via The Age
Source : Topix.net | 2007-08-11 09:04:38.0
?Barefoot Diva? Cesaria Evora talks about fame, love and music
Ever since she recorded
her debut album "La Diva Aux Pieds Nus" (Barefoot Diva) in 1988, Cape
Verdean singer Cesaria Evora has been one of the world's top-selling
selling female stars, attracting millions of music lovers with her love
songs, sincerity and genuine presence on stage.
Source : africahit.com | 2007-07-31 06:59:00.0
To say Cesaria Evora is understated would be, well, understated. Acknowledged as one of the great practitioners of the morna -- the melancholy music of her native Cape Verde -- Evora last night headlined the ... via Ottawa Citizen
Source : Topix.net | 2007-07-01 13:49:27.0
A Calm, Serene Presence From Islands of Nostalgia
In an uptempo song near the end of Cesaria Evora's set on Tuesday night at Carnegie Hall , her saxophonist, Totinho, swaggered toward her with arms outstretched, as if inviting her to dance. via New York Times
Source : Topix.net | 2007-06-29 13:39:42.0
Lura Added to Toronto's Afrofest 2007 Line-up
Due to the cancellation of the Mahotella Queens performance the line-up for Afrofest 2007 will now also include Lura, the rising star from Portugal (of Cape Verdian origin), and former back up singer and heir apparent to the great "barefoot diva", Cesaria Evora. Her latest release in November 2006, and second for Lusafrica, is M'Bem Di Fora (I've Come From Far).
Afrofest 2007 will be broadcast live from Queen's Park on CBC Radio One 99.1's Bi...
Source : worldmusiccentral.org | 2007-06-29 12:40:28.0
Cesaria Évora: At Home on the Road
These days, Cesaria Évora spends a lot of time delivering her unique vocal stylings to the four corners of the globe. However, she always goes home to find her musical inspiration -- the rhythm of life in her native Cape Verde.
Source : npr.org | 2007-06-28 20:00:00.0
Tcheka incorporates rhythms of daily island life in his songs
"I feel that I need to carry a message out about Cape Verdean culture"
The legendary Cesaria Evora, whom he calls "the mother of us all," is Cape Verde's unofficial global ambassador. via BostonHerald.com
Source : Topix.net | 2007-06-25 23:35:21.0
Cape Verde musicians share a unique sound
"They are my friends; I love all of them, the Cape Verde singers. For me, if they are from Cape Verde, I cannot put one person higher than another. All of us from Cape Verde, we all try to bring our culture to the world in our way."
Cesaria Evora, probably Cape Verde's greatest musical export, hails from Mindelo, on the island of Sao Vicente. via Chicago Tribune
Source : Topix.net | 2007-06-16 03:39:08.0
"Rogamar') and the classic 'Sodade"
'Charisma' is a word that demands a new definition when applied to Cape Verdean singer Cesaria Evora. via Los Angeles Times
Source : Topix.net | 2007-06-14 03:26:17.0
Cesaria Evora Returns to North America, Brings Tchéka
Grammy Award Winner Cesaria Evora will return to North
America for a series of concerts during the month of June in support of
her latest album "Rogamar" (Pray to the sea) released worldwide in March 2006.
Source : africahit.com | 2007-06-08 08:26:00.0
"Cesaria is the mother of us all"
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 the island ... via SF Gate
Source : Topix.net | 2007-06-07 14:23:42.0
CESARIA EVORA
Cesaria Evora starts a North American tour of her own with a performance in Los Angeles on June 8th.
Source : mondomix.com | 2007-06-06 18:32:00.0
Barefoot Diva Cesaria Evora to Tour the United States
Cesaria Evora, the Barefoot Diva of the Cape Verde Islands, is set to tour the United States and Canada. Her tour kicks off on Friday, June 8 in Los...
Source : about.com | 2007-06-04 23:28:54.0
Renowned Cape Verdean Multi-instrumentalist Will Perform in New York
New York city (NY), USA - Kim Alves, renown multi-instrumentalist/producer from the Cape Verde islands, will perform live at the legendary Sob's on Sunday, June 10th at 8pm. With a career that spans over three decades, Kim has finally released his own album, A Dança das Ilhas (Dance of the islands) presenting it for the first time in New York.
Kim plans to take you along an unforgettable dance throughout the Cape Verde islands via a cultural compilation of national rhythms which include Ladainha, Batuku, Morna, Coladera, Finaçon, Tabanka and Funana. These styles have been interpreted by world music greats such as Cesaria Evora, Lura and ...
Source : worldmusiccentral.org | 2007-06-04 12:25:12.0
Cesária Évora at the 2007 JVC Jazz Festival
New York (NY), USA - Cape Verdian legend Cesária Évora will perform at the 2007 JVC Jazz Festival - New York in June 2007. The festival takes place June 17 - 30. Produced by George Wein & The Festival Network, LLC, the annual celebration of jazz and eclectic music features more than 200 events at 28 venues.
Nicknamed the "barefoot diva" for her habit of performing without shoes, Cesária Évora performs at Carnegie Hall on Tuesday, June 26, at 8:00 p.m. The Cape Verdean vocalist is perhaps the best-known practitioner of morna, songs of sadness, sorrow and yearning.
She began singing morna at age 16 and soon began performing all over the islands. She never left homeland and...Source : worldmusiccentral.org | 2007-05-26 07:24:51.0
Cape Verdean Singer-Songwriter Tcheka Emerges with his Own Sound
Bloomington (Indiana), USA - Following the recent eruption of great women singers from Cape Verde, along comes a new sound from a young man named Tcheka. Having penned the opening and closing tracks for Lura's acclaimed debut album, this summer he will tour with the great "barefoot diva" Cesaria Evora, who brought Cape Verde to the world on the waves of her soulful morna. While the world has heard the female voice emanating from the Cape Verdean islands, Tcheka, fed and nurtured by these women, brings a new perspective with his album, ...
Source : worldmusiccentral.org | 2007-05-10 12:49:21.0
Cesaria Evora Returns to North America for a June/July 2007 Tour
Bloomington (Indiana), USA - Cesaria Evora will return to the United states and Canada in June and July of 2007. Her North American tour will include music from her most recent recording Rogamar (Sony BMG/RCA Victor).
It’s been an unexpected road for Cesaria. In the early days, she rode a wave of tastemaker popularity finding audiences that included musicians David Byrne, Bonnie Raitt, and TV reporter Ed Bradley. Cesaria was set to perform at Madonna’s 1997 birthday party at Versace’s private estate. But the fashion designer’s murder put an end to that. Madonna tried again with her 2000 wedding at a castle in Scotl...
Source : worldmusiccentral.org | 2007-05-09 07:03:20.0
AN AGING NATION SQUEEZES OUT ITS FUTURE
With statistics showing a large drop in asylum seekers, is France losing its reputation as a refuge from the world's tyrannies? And what consequences are there on its music scene?
How sad it is to live in a country which once prided itself as a refuge for the persecuted of the world, and today is run by politicians building a fortress around its borders. Yet, this is the scenario in today’s France. In March, figures published showed a 40% drop in asylum requests, the third year running these figures have been slashed. The most spectacular decrease has been the number of Haïtians requesting asylum (-63.5%), followed by China (-53.5%) and Algeria (-43.8%).
Has there been an equally spectacular improvement in the human rights situation in these countries? If so, the media and human rights organisations have failed to pick up on it. Take the example of Haïti: police continue to mete out extrajudicial retribution, illegal homicides and kidnappings rose have risen over the last two years and political tensions remain extreme. The UN renewed the mandate of its peacekeeping force in February, saying armed groups continue to wreak havoc in this beleaguered nation.
So what is behind these French statistics? “Legalised dissuasion” is what several independent associations have been saying in the past weeks. Since 2003 legislation has hardened entry policies into the country by demanding a Kafka-esque list of administrative documents to would-be candidates. Transit visas, re-admission accords, pressure on the countries of origin, restrictive quotas imposed on French Embassy personnel… The list is prohibitively long and highly effective in bringing down the numbers of applications – it went down from 50,000 in 2005 to 26,000 last year.
The Interior Ministry and its minister, Nicolas Sarkozy, have not hidden their glee at this trend. Sarkozy - whose father was a political refugee from Hungary (fleeing the Red Army in 1944), and whose mother was a Sephardic Jew from the persecuted minority in Thessalonika, Greece - has put the fight against immigration at the heart of his campaign to conquer power. This includes wholesale expulsions of migrants in “irregular situation”, with often intolerable consequences: the Sri Lankan Elanchelvan Rajendram was executed by the army last month, less than two years after his expulsion from France. This month, the Chadian refugee Issa was thrown in gaol by the Idriss Deby government the day he was expelled by the French authorities…
Sarkozy has coupled this with a policy of selective immigration which equates to the pillaging of the elite from the developing world. The total sum of these policies is likely to be a continuing drop in immigration figures, given the dominating political tendencies in Paris. It will only be a question of time before France will lose its enviable status as Europe’s favoured nation for asylum seekers. Indeed, since the 90s, the Hexagon welcomes 250% fewer refugees than other European nations. Meanwhile, the aging process shows no signs of slowing down. By 2050, one-third of the population with be 60 or over, twice the figure in 2005. 69 Frenchmen will be over 60 for 100 inhabitants aged between 20 and 59. The catastrophic consequences on the economy and general wellbeing of the population will no doubt draw an ironic if rueful smile from the thousands of asylum seekers whose demands for refuge chez les Gaulois were rejected.
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Has this closed mindedness had a spill-over effect on the French music industry? If the latest “Victoires de la Musique” (France’s equivalent of the Grammy Awards) is anything to go by, the answer is unfortunately yes. It was Universal Records that swept the board, claiming two-thirds of the awards, and leaving the smaller independent labels with precious little to share. The PIAS label decried Universal’s as “a masquerade” that “does not correspond to the variety, warmth, enthusiasm, creativity and richness of French (music) productions.
Even the Victoires taken by the “Tôt ou Tard label” (which promotes the likes of Lhasa and Stanley Beckford) in the world music category left a slightly bitter taste in the mouth. It was won by the Agnès Jaoui, who beat out competition from Cesaria Evora, Jehro and Rachid Taha for the award. A fine actress and director she might be, yet totally unremarkable as a musician. As one fellow journalist told me, were the other candidates too exotic for the jury, perhaps?
March 2007
Source : mondomix.com | 2007-03-21 21:24:31.0
M'bem di fora
Cesaria Evora is the name most world-music fans associate with Cape Verde, but the great singer has been joined by a much younger diva, Lura.
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Source : Topix.net | 2007-03-15 20:59:41.0
