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Cesária Évora

1941 - 2011

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Cesária Évora GCIH (Portuguese pronunciation: [sɨˈzaɾiɐ ˈɛvuɾɐ]; 27 August 1941 – 17 December 2011) was a Cape Verdean singer known for singing morna, a genre of music from Cape Verde, in her native Cape Verdean Creole. Her songs were often devoted to themes of love, homesickness, nostalgia, and the history of the Cape Verdean people. She was known for performing barefoot and for her habit of smoking and drinking on stage during intermissions. Évora's music has received many accolades, including a Grammy Award in 2004, and it has influenced many Cape Verde diaspora musicians as well as American pop singer Madonna. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Cesária Évora is the 37th most popular singer (down from 29th in 2019), the most popular biography from Cabo Verde and the most popular Singer.

Cesária Évora is a Cape Verdean singer who is most famous for her singing of the Cape Verdean morna.

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Among singers, Cesária Évora ranks 37 out of 4,381. Before her are Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey, Andrea Bocelli, Mick Jagger, Serge Gainsbourg, and Toto Cutugno. After her are Johnny Cash, Farinelli, Nico, Agnetha Fältskog, Barry White, and Kanye West.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1941, Cesária Évora ranks 11. Before her are Slobodan Milošević, Alex Ferguson, Plácido Domingo, Sergio Mattarella, Bernardo Bertolucci, and Joseph Hooton Taylor Jr.. After her are Riccardo Muti, Lee Myung-bak, Fethullah Gülen, Robert Forster, Richard Dawkins, and Bernie Sanders. Among people deceased in 2011, Cesária Évora ranks 10. Before her are Wangari Maathai, Václav Havel, Elizabeth Taylor, Osama bin Laden, Otto von Habsburg, and Norman Foster Ramsey Jr.. After her are Peter Falk, Burhanuddin Rabbani, Sócrates, Sathya Sai Baba, Svetlana Alliluyeva, and Rosalyn Sussman Yalow.

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In Cabo Verde

Among people born in Cabo Verde, Cesária Évora ranks 1 out of 23. After her are Aristides Pereira (1923), Pedro Pires (1934), Jorge Carlos Fonseca (1950), António Mascarenhas Monteiro (1944), José Maria Neves (1960), Arlindo Gomes Furtado (1949), Ulisses Correia e Silva (1962), Gualberto do Rosário (1950), Carlos Veiga (1949), Rolando (1985), and Gelson Fernandes (1986).

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Among SINGERS In Cabo Verde

Among singers born in Cabo Verde, Cesária Évora ranks 1. 

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