Cape Verde sways to the sound of morna, a homegrown folk music laced with melancholy, longing and soul. Morna's most famous song, "Sodade," remembers the tens of thousands of emigrés who have left ...
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The "Barefoot Diva" died in the Baptista de Sousa Hospital in Cape Verde Lisbon: Cesaria Evora, who started singing as a teenager in the bayside bars of Cape Verde in the 1950s and won a Grammy in ...
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 ...
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The Mexican pianist and composer Consuelo Velázquez was only 16 years old when she wrote Bésame Mucho, and she was yet to have her first kiss. Composer and conductor Odaline de la Martinez remembers ...
But it all started in Mindelo, Portuguese colony island of Cape Verde in the pre-independence early 1960s, with a craze for a very emotionally expressive varied-tempo music type called coledera, a ...
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Immerse yourself in the enchanting world of Spanish music with this handpicked list of 35 timeless Spanish love songs. These tunes aren’t just the famous Spanish songs everyone knows; they are ...