I just spent 9 days in Praia, capital of Santiago, the biggest island in the Cape Verde chain. I went there to visit the Atlantic Music Expo and the Kriol Jazz Festival, and was invited because I’ve ...

After a lifetime of poverty, Évora found huge success aged 51 with 1992 album Miss Perfumado. As Cape Verdean singers celebrate her morna ballads on stage, those who knew her recall her power, pride a ...

There’s an old saying which states the Cape Verde Islands are home to a greater number of musicians per square kilometer than any other country in the world. In truth, such a definitive claim may be ...

The music of Cape Verde has been so dynamically defined by Cesaria Evora that it comes as an intriguing surprise to learn that there are sounds and styles that reach beyond her compelling versions of ...

SLOW rhythms, mournful melodies and melancholic voices. The world knows about the music from Cape Verde mainly through the late Cesária Evora, who popularised the songs from her native island of São ...

Cape Verde is an island country situated in the Atlantic Ocean west of the African continent. The nation is renowned for its ...

LISBON - 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, ...

MOST anyone who knows the music of Cape Verde, an archipelago nestled 500km off the coast of West Africa, first learned of these sublime sounds through the music of Cesária Évora. She popularised ...

Albertina Teixeira paid the vendor and in return, received a large bag of “canepas,” or green fruits commonly known as Spanish limes. Then, using her thumb, she opened the small fruit and her ...