Newsgroup: it.arti.musica.rock
Titolo: cesaria evora - voz d'amor

Uscito oggi e fortemente consigliato.
Leggermente meno vario di quel capolavoro di Sao Vicente di Longe, ma siamo
su livelli sempre molto alti.  Al solito, mornas e coladeras cantate con un
pathos ed un trasporto fuori dal comune.
Killer tracks per ora: Beijio roubado e Jardin prometido.
DavMar

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 Qualche paragone ???
Canta nella lingua che parlano a Cabo Verde, che immagino sia una variante
del portoghese.
Per il resto:
Her music is Coladeras and Mornas, European sounding styles whose roots date
back to the 1800s, when Cape Verde's port was an important halfway station
for
Atlantic trading.Musical influences have dribbled in from all corners of the
globe, but the most dominant are those of the former colonials Portugal,
Angola and Brazil.
[...]
Cape Verde was a Portuguese colony for 400 years in all. The Islands'
inhabitants are descendents of Portuguese and slaves. "My songs are about
loss and longing, love, politics, immigration - and reality. We sing about
our land; about the sun; the rain that never comes; about poverty and
problems; how the people on Cape Verde live," says Cesaria Evora.
Cesaria Evora's main strength as a vocalist is the authority with which she
sings.
She is first and foremost an interpreter of others' lyrics and melodies,
including her
uncle's. She sings straight, without vibrato. She pronounces the lyrics, in
Creole, with a distant ease that is never overdone. Her many, often bitter,
experiences can be heard in a voice that indicates a life lived. Cesaria
Evora has been married three times and deserted three times. In her
expression she reminds one of Billie Holiday or Edith Piaf, but does not
like to be compared with them. "Each singer has her own expression," says
Cesaria, who has been called "the barefoot diva" because she simply prefers
to perform without shoes. Cesaria Evora is loyal to Cape Verde. Despite
having become an international Artist who tours the world she continues to
reside in her hometown, Mindelo, on the island of Sao Vicente. It was there
she lay the foundations of her incredible career. For many years she
performed in Mindelo's bars, starting at the age of 16. She began singing
with a group in which her boyfriend played - and stayed. Life as a bar
singer was tough, like life in Cape Verde. After many years performing in
dives, she tired of being a singer. For a decade, between 1975 and 1985, she
didn't perform at all. In 1988 she met producer Jose da Silva, a native of
Cape Verdi who grew up in Dakar and Paris.Da Silva made it his mission to
make a star out of Cesaria Evora. He let her perform for the Cape Verde's
exile community in Paris. Jose da Silva established the Lusafrica record
company in 1988 and that same year Evora made her debut album, "La Diva Aux
Pieds Nus", in Lisbon. With "Miss Perfumado" in 1992 her career took off at
speed.This was her springboard into the international world of music."Miss
Perfumado" sold more than 500,000 copies and earned her five gold records.
In all, Cesaria Evora has released 8 original albums and won many prizes -
one from UNESCO - as a leading African singer. She has also been nominated
three times for an American Grammy award.
DavMar