Cesária Évora

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Cesária Évora 2008
Cesária Évora 2008
Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
Sao Vicente di longe
  CH 32 04/15/2001 (11 weeks)
Anthology - Mornas & Coladeras
  CH 58 07/21/2002 (6 weeks)
Voz D'Amor
  CH 57 05/10/2003 (6 weeks)
Rogamar
  CH 38 03/19/2006 (6 weeks)
Nha sentimento
  CH 83 11/15/2009 (2 weeks)

Cesária Évora ( IPA : [ sɨˈzaɾiɐ ˈɛvuɾɐ ]; * August 27, 1941 in Mindelo ; † December 17, 2011 ibid) was the most famous singer of Cape Verdes and is considered the Queen of the Morna .

biography

Cesária Évora was called the " barefoot diva " because she traditionally performed without shoes or stockings. She came from a family of musicians in the city of Mindelo on the island of São Vicente and had four siblings. Her father Justino da Cruz Évora played cavaquinho , guitar and violin . After his early death, Cesária first went to a children's home and then to foster parents . She lived from performing live in the city's pubs. In 1988, at the age of 47, she got her first record deal and quickly became a world star.

Together with Peter Maffay she recorded the song Sodade , which appeared on Maffay's CD Encounters 2 - An Alliance for Children in 2006 . In the same year she was involved in the album Carnets de bord by the French singer Bernard Lavilliers .

The language of their songs is the Cape Verdean Creole of their homeland.

In 2008, Cesária Évora suffered a stroke while touring Australia . In October 2009 her album Nha Sentimento was released , which was recorded in Mindelo and Paris in spring 2009 and produced by José da Silva. In September 2010 she resigned from the stage for health reasons and returned from Paris to Cabo Verde to, as she said, spend “the last few days” in her home country. She died on December 17, 2011 in Mindelo. The Cape Verdean Prime Minister José Maria Neves then ordered a 48-hour state mourning.

music

The tone of her songs is lyrical: lust for life, melancholy and sweet melancholy, lost love, pain and hope, summed up in sodade . In Voz d'Amor she sings:

Deeper feelings than
all seas already crossed
My home, my hidden world
In the left side of my chest.

Évora is accompanied by guitar , cavaquinho , piano , bass and percussion , often accompanied by violin , accordion and soprano saxophone . The background of their songs is the history of their homeland with topics such as isolation , slave trade and emigration . In addition to the typical Cape Verdean songs, she also interprets songs of other origins, for example Besame Mucho . The singing style is characterized by glissandi in the intonation and a relatively free timing, which is in contrast to the fixed timing of the backing band, especially in rhythmic songs. This gives the music its typical, relaxed, flowing character.

aftermath

In 2012, the airport on the island of São Vicente, on which Mindelo was born, was named after Cesária Évora.

In 2013 the Belgian musician Stromae released a homage to Cesária Évora on his second studio album Racine carrée with the title "Ave Cesaria".

In 2018 an exhibition in the Palácio de Povo in Mindelo is dedicated to the singer.

On August 27, 2019, on her 78th birthday, the search engine Google dedicated a doodle to the singer .

Awards

Discography

Cesária Évora 2009 at a concert in Esch-sur-Alzette

Studio albums

  • Cesária (with Tito Paris , guitar, piano, vocals and Luis Morais, clarinet, 1987)
  • La Diva Aux Pieds Nus (1988)
  • Distino de Belita (1990)
  • Mar Azul (1991)
  • Miss Perfumado (1993)
  • Cesária (1995)
  • Cabo Verde (1997)
  • Nova Sintra (1998)
  • Café Atlantico (1999)
  • Sao Vicente di Longe (2001)
  • Voz d'Amor (2003)
  • Rogamar (2006)
  • Nha Sentimento (2009)

Live albums and compilations

  • Sodade - Les Plus Belles Mornas de Cesária (Best of Collection, 1994)
  • Club Sodade (remix album, 1996)
  • Live à l'Olympia (live recording from Paris, 1996)
  • Best Of (Best of Collection, 1998)
  • Cesária Évora (DVD, Eric Mulet, ARTE, 2001)
  • Live in Paris (Live DVD, recorded on April 28, 2001 at the Zénith (Paris) , 2002)
  • Anthology (Best of Collection, 2002)
  • Cesária Évora 2002 (published in Japan, 2002)
  • Anthology - Mornas & Coladeras (best of collection, double CD edition of Anthology , 2004)
  • Live d'Amor (Live DVD, recorded on April 15, 2004 at Le Grand Rex , Paris , 2004)
  • Radio Mindelo (recordings from the early 1960s, 2008)
  • Cesaria & (duos with singers of the world, 2010)
  • Mãe Carinhosa (2013)
  • All Time Best (2014)
  • La Collection (6 CDs, 2014)
  • The Essential (2 CDs, Sony, 2015)

Fonts

  • Cesária Évora: palpitations and singing. About a free life with mothers, men, children and music. In: Lettre International , LI 97, summer 2012.

See also

Web links

Commons : Cesária Évora  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Chart discography Switzerland
  2. ↑ Cesária Évora is dead. Spiegel.de from December 17, 2011, accessed on April 3, 2018
  3. ↑ Sa voix est éternelle . Le Quotidien, December 19, 2011
  4. ↑ Palácio de Povo on lonelyplanet.com, accessed August 11, 2018.
  5. ↑ Cesária Évora: Google Doodle for African singer on computerhilfe.de, accessed August 27, 2019.
  6. ↑ Cesaria Evora at mpc.encore.com (English), accessed on April 3, 2018
  7. ↑ a b biography Cesaria Evora , in: Tropical Music (website of your label in Germany), accessed on February 15, 2010
  8. ↑ ENTIDADES ESTRANGEIRAS AGRACIADAS COM ORDENS PORTUGUESAS - Página Oficial the Order of Honoríficas Portuguesas. Retrieved August 16, 2019 .
  9. ↑ Légion d'honneur pour Césaria Évora, “diva aux pieds nus et à la voix d'or” , French-language website of the newspaper La Dépêche of February 9, 2009, accessed on February 14, 2010
  10. ^ Franck Salin: Kora Awards 2010: où sont passés les artistes? , Afrik.com report of April 6, 2010, accessed May 27, 2010
personal data
SURNAME Évora, Cesária
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cize
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Cape Verdean singer
DATE OF BIRTH August 27, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Mindelo , Cape Verde
DATE OF DEATH December 17, 2011
Place of death Mindelo , Cape Verde