Cesaria Evora’s concert in Yerevan is likely to be cancelled

September 23, 2011 - 16:12 AMT

PanARMENIAN.Net - Cesaria Evora’s concert in Yerevan, dated September 29, is likely to be canceled. Lenta.ru reports, quoting Agence France-Presse, “the star had arrived in Paris in a state of great weakness and, unable to complete a planned series of French concerts, had decided to bring her career to a close.”

Valid sources told a PanARMENIAN.Net reporter soon it will be clear if the singer will or will not perform in Yerevan.

Cesaria Evora, born August 27, 1941 in the port town of Mindelo on the Cape Verde island of Sao 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.