Cesária Évora to perform in Yerevan

August 18, 2011 - 18:25 AMT

PanARMENIAN.Net - World famous Cesária Évora will give a concert in Yerevan on September 29. The singer has visited Armenia once to perform at a closed event. This time, all fans will have an opportunity to enjoy live performance of the barefoot diva.

Cesária Évora, born August 27, 1941 in the port town of Mindelo on the Cape Verde island of São Vicente, is a notable folk singer. She is known as the “barefoot diva” because of her propensity to appear on stage without shoes in support of the homeless and poor women and children of her country.

Long known as the queen of the morna, a soulful genre (related with the Portuguese fado) sung in Creole-Portuguese, she mixes her sentimental folk tunes filled with longing and sadness with the acoustic sounds of guitar, cavaquinho, violin, accordion, and clarinet.