# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/cesaria-evora
# Generated: 2026-09-01T11:38:29.523Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/cesaria-evora"
name: "Cesária Évora"
slug: "cesaria-evora"
description: "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."
tagline: "Cape Verdean singer-songwriter (1941–2011)"
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gender: "female"
category:
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  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
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  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1941-08-27"
deathDate: "2011-12-17"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  historical:           24.656584
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  sourceConfidence:     85
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
totalFollowers: 120000
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  - name: "Singer / Musician"
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  - name: "Singer-Songwriter"
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  - name: "Music"
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  - name: "20th Century"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
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.