In its brief history, the Hollywood Bowl's World Festival has been far and away the most interesting, offbeat and, more often than not, most cleverly programmed series of concerts on the whole ...

Cesaria Evora shuffles on stage, barefoot and clutching a packet of full-strength cigarettes. All her 60 years are etched upon her lived-in face, and her close-cropped hair and sparkly tent-dress are ...

Cesaria Evora is a portly grandmother with close-cropped hair who doesn’t speak English. She didn’t leave her poverty-stricken West African homeland of Cape Verde until she was in her mid-40s. She has ...

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 ...

You don’t have to speak another language to understand the very human warmth gushing around you as you listen to Cape Verde singer Cesaria Evora deliver song after masterful song on her new disc, “Sao ...

So beloved in the is Cesaria Evora that wherever she sings, an audience is guaranteed. Long before a global fan base declared her the premier purveyor of the plaintive morna, Ms. Evora was well aware ...

Cesária Évora, better known as the ‘Barefoot Diva’ for her habit of always performing shoeless in solidarity with her native Cape Verde’s poverty, has died at the age of 70 on her home island of São ...