# Cesária Évora

> She sang morna - Cape Verde's blues of homesickness and longing - in bare feet, cigarette in hand between sets, carrying an island's sorrow to concert halls that had never heard it.

*Cape Verdean singer-songwriter (1941-2011)*

**Canonical URL:** https://fame.am/person/cesaria-evora

## Identity
- **Profile type:** Singer / Musician ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220))
- **Category:** Musicians
- **Country:** Cape Verde
- **Born:** 1941-08-27
- **Died:** 2011-12-17
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** female

## Bio

Évora grew up poor and started singing in bars at sixteen, found some local traction in Cape Verde, then quit when the money wouldn't feed her children. She stayed quiet until 1985, when a women's anthology in Portugal reconnected her with music producer José da Silva, who signed her to Lusafrica. Her debut, La Diva Aux Pieds Nus, arrived in 1988. Worldwide attention came with Miss Perfumado in 1992 and Cesária in 1995, both carrying morna's ache - love, exile, the weight of scattered history - sung in Cape Verdean Creole. She won a Grammy in 2004 and left a mark on diaspora artists and, unexpectedly, Madonna. Health broke in the late 2000s; respiratory failure and hypertension ended it in December 2011.

## Fame
- **Popularity score:** 77.5 / 100
- **Momentum:** 16.5 / 100  (trend: FALLING)
- **Historical depth:** 24.5 / 100
- **Attention shift:** 12.4 / 100
- **Source confidence:** 85.0 / 100
- **Profile completeness:** 90.0 / 100
- **Total followers across platforms:** 127,000

## Platforms
- **FACEBOOK**: https://www.facebook.com/CesariaEvoraOfficial (@CesariaEvoraOfficial)
- **IMDB**: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0959925/ (@nm0959925)
- **SPOTIFY**: https://open.spotify.com/artist/0Nks3cFWU2a7rooAlFQYgn (@0Nks3cFWU2a7rooAlFQYgn)
- **WEBSITE**: http://www.cesaria-evora.com/
- **YOUTUBE**: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCs5WMDtJoMaX5vIMus_cPhg (@@cesariaevoraofficiel, 127,000 followers)

## Topics
#Musicians, #Singer / Musician, #Singer-Songwriter, #Music, #20th Century

## Timeline
- **2011** - Died
- **2010** - Order of Cultural Merit (Brazil)
- **2009** - Knight of the Legion of Honour
- **2003** - Grammy Award for Best Contemporary World Music Album
- **2000** - Victory of the album of traditional musics or musics of the world
- **1997** - Kora Awards
- **1987** - Cesária
- **1941** - Born

## Sources
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