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 ...

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.

Cape Verde’s beloved barefoot diva, Cesaria Evora, died today. She had been ill for some time. She got her start at waterfront bars on her home town of Mindelo on the island of Sao Vicente, part of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

World Music presents Cape Verde's Cesaria Évora at 8 p.m. Saturday at the Berklee Performance Center in Boston. Widely considered Cape Verde's finest and most popular female vocalist, Cesaria Évora ...