- Title: FRANCE: CESARIA EVORA ENCHANTS HER PARIS FANS WITH NOSTALGIA-FILLED LYRICS
- Date: 28th April 2001
- Summary: (REUTERS -ACCESS ALL) (SOUNDBITE CRIOLU ) MCU CESARIA EVORA SAYING: "In Cuba I felt like I was at home. Cubans and Capeverdians are very close to each other in their way of being. They are very friendly people. I liked a lot singing there, both in studio and in concert."
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- Location: PARIS, FRANCE
- Country: France
- Topics: Entertainment
- Reuters ID: LVA7JUKAL4M8JABMQCYEXC22DX5H
- Story Text: Cesaria Evora, the "bare-footed diva" from Cape Verde, has once again enchanted her Paris fans with her fascinating, nostalgia-filled lyrics.
Evora spent much of her youth swamped by poverty but was buoyed up by her island's music, literature and rich mix of culture and started singing in bars as a teenager. Her career only took off however in her late 40's, in Paris, after a French producer fell in love with her voice.
Accompanied by an acoustic piano and a ukulele-type instrument called cavaquinho, Evora's sensuous singing flows across shifting rhythms, in Cape Verde's rich tradition of bluesy "morna" songs.
"My music is melancholic because in Cape Verde we use our music to express our feelings, and we speak about things that happen in the day to day, things that are very simple and common to all, and sometimes these things are sad, because sad things do happen in life", Evora told Reuters Television, and added: "But I'm not sad or melancholic myself, it is my music that is like that."
Nominated for four Grammy awards and celebrated by the French newspaper "Le Monde" as belonging to "the aristocracy of bar singers", Evora has succeeded in exporting her tiny nation's sounds to Europe, the U.S. and Asia, in recordings and live performances. - Copyright Holder: REUTERS
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