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Titolo: Cesaria Evora Live

Cesaria Evora al Royal Festival Hall, London due sere fa....
 
She is the globe's most unlikely superstar: a dumpy, boss-eyed grandmother
from a half-forgotten string of islands in the South Atlantic who did not
leave her homeland until the age of 46. 'Discovered' a decade ago by the
rest of the world, Cesaria Evora now sells records by the routine million
and commands full houses in the West's cultural capitals. Not bad for an
orphanage girl and one-time bar singer. 
Evora's show at the Royal Festival Hall last week was a little different,
intended to show that she is not the only talent Cape Verde has to offer,
and that her languid melancholia is not the islands' only musical style.
Before she finally shuffled on, we were treated to a clutch of local
stars: the wild-eyed Lura in cheetah-print dress, a saturnine Ildo Lobo,
and the accordion-driven group Ferro Gaita. Each offered a variation on
the Cape Verdean menu of morna, funana and coladeira, forms that twist the
influences of West Africa, Portugal and Brazil into startling blends. 
Evora's personal calling card remains morna, a lyrical fusion which owes
as much to the forlorn fado of Portugal as to West Africa, and which is
infused with sadness and loss. Whether it's separation from family and
homeland (most of the million-strong Cape Verdean population live
overseas) or regret for lost love, morna comes with a bittersweet
melancholy (sordade). In part, it is a reminder that Cape Verde is no
tropical paradise - the islands are dry and volcanic, uninhabited until
imperial Portugal took them on. When Evora sings about her 'arid land full
of love', morna becomes sublime. 
Waddling onstage with cropped hair and bare feet (partly, she says, to
show solidarity with the poor folk back home), Evora looks every one of
her 61 years. While her gold necklaces attest to her success, she remains
very much the same singer who became a local star in her early twenties,
singing in the bars of her hometown of Mindelo, Sao Vicente. She still
lives there, and though she no longer cradles a whisky onstage, she is
still wont to stop mid-performance to puff at a Marlboro with her pianist. 
Her problem, since her 1992 album Miss Perfumado, has been how to maintain
her appeal with a genre that is deep but narrow; how many morna records
does one home need? She and her record company have responded by bringing
in more musicians, guest stars and dipping into Cuban and Brazilian forms
to create a millennial, pan-Atlantic fusion. The results have not always
convinced - 1999's Café Atlantico , with Cuban musicians, was a let-down,
though she recovered her form on the more recent Sao Vicente Di Longe. 
Her 12-piece band is a phenomenon, with a Cuban string trio on one flank,
an exquisite reeds player on the other, and a tranche of guitars and
percussion in the middle. They supplied rococo palm-quartet backings for
the slow, lyrical songs, and loping, uptempo arrangements for expeditions
into neo-salsa. 
The audience were soon dancing in the aisles, though the formula of
alternating slow and fast songs wouldn't let them stay there for long.
Evora still sounds most comfortable on her old ground, and in the section
of the show where she was left alone with her brilliant pianist, Paulino
Vieira, and acoustic guitar or violins. For a brief moment, we were in a
seaport bar with a younger woman, dreaming of a departed love - Evora has
three marriages behind her, and while she is now disdainfully independent,
her experience seeps through. We may not understand her Portuguese creole,
but her feelings remain clear. 
As the band moved up through the gears, Evora became less the intimate
raconteur. She has come into her fame too late to inhabit the role of
big-band diva but her vocal strength never falters. 'Besame Mucho',
flanked by all her Cape Verdean chums, provided a suitable encore; slinky
but rapturous. 
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 Cesaria Evora al Royal Festival Hall, London due sere fa....
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