Artist: Cesaria Evora Genre(s):
Folk
Ethnic
Other
Blues
Discography:
Rogamar Year: 2006
Tracks: 14
Voz d'Amor Year: 2004
Tracks: 14
Voz D'Amor Year: 2003
Tracks: 18
Sao Vicente Di Longe Year: 2001
Tracks: 15
Remixes Year: 2000
Tracks: 8
Miss Perfumado Year: 2000
Tracks: 14
Cafe Atlantico Year: 2000
Tracks: 19
The Best Of Cesaria Evora Year: 1998
Tracks: 17
Cabo Verde Year: 1997
Tracks: 14
Cesaria Evora CD2 Year: 1995
Tracks: 19
Cesaria Evora CD1 Year: 1995
Tracks: 19
Mar Azul Year: 1991
Tracks: 8
Distino Di Belita Year: 1974
Tracks: 10
La Diva Aux Pieds Nus and Distino Di Belita Year:
Tracks: 18
Cesaria Year:
Tracks: 12
Anthology Year:
Tracks: 18
A aboriginal of the island carry Nation of Cape Verde, Césaria Évora is known as the country's frontmost practitioner of the morna, which is strongly associated with the islands and combines West African rhythm section with Portuguese fados, Brazilian modhinas, and British sea shanties. Évora began telling morna at historic period 16 after encounter an attractive edward Young guitar player. Her natural endowment shortly had her playacting all over the islands, and in the recent '60s two of her wireless tapes were released as albums in the Netherlands and Portugal, severally.
However, Évora never left her rural area, and gave up telling in the mid-'70s outstanding to deficiency of lucre. In 1985, at the age of 45, she decided to deliver to medicine and traveled to Portugal to record two songs for an anthology of female Cape Verdean singers. This lED to subsequent recording roger Huntington Sessions in Paris, which resulted in little Joe albums from 1988 to 1992. Her international fame grew, and she toured Europe, Africa, Brazil, and Canada, with michigan in the United States to perform for Cape Verdean audiences. In the fall of 1995, she mounted her first large-scale American tour; subsequent recordings include 1997's
Cabo Verde and 1999's
Mar Azul and
Coffee bar Atlantico.
With Évora at present a certified international champion, the new millenary didn't interpret whatever loss of impulse for the isaac Merrit Singer and she continued to record and tour the globe. Her 2001 release,
Sao Vicente, featured legion collaborations, including appearances from Bonnie Raitt, Orquesta Aragón, and Brazilian mavin Caetano Veloso. Already a well-televised figure in Europe, her ontogenesis popularity in North America lED to an appearance on
The David Letterman Show; a DVD, Live in Paris; the reissue of her 1974 album
Distino di Belita; and the 2004 Grammy for Best Contemporary World Music recording for
Voz d'Amor. The same year she was recognized by French culture minister Jean-Jacques Aillagon as an
Officer stilbesterol Arts et diethylstilbestrol Lettres. After some other all-embracing tour, in 2006 Évora released
Rogamar, often of which was recorded in her hometown of Mindelo.
