Sign up for the best picks from our travel, fashion and lifestyle writers. Today’s Google Doodle honours the legendary folk singer Cesária Évora on what would ...

AS A child, Cesária Évora never stepped into the waves. She was frightened of the Atlantic breakers that tumbled up the beaches of São Vicente or crashed in high spray on the rocks, and never learned ...

Does the soul of a song lie in literal meaning, in which case the listener must understand the song’s language? Or, does the song travel through the ear to infuse itself within its listener’s soul, ...

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, ...

Cesária Evora, who has died aged 70, won international acclaim as a singer when she brought the haunting music of her native Cape Verde to concert platforms around the world. 18 December 2011 • 1:30pm ...

Cesária Évora, the Cape Verdean singer who became known as the “Barefoot diva”, is being remembered in a special Google Doodle on what would have been her 78th birthday. Born on 27 August, 1941, Évora ...

To many, she is the Queen of Morna, while for others she is the 'Barefoot Diva'. Cesária Évora was a major Cape Verdean recording artist who was born on August 27, 1941, to a part-time musician father ...

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 ...

WestEnd Films and Cinephil are teaming up for a feature documentary on the late Cape Verdean singer Cesária Évora. Directed by Portuguese filmmaker Ana Sofia Fonseca, the film — simply titled “Cesária ...

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, died Sat… ...