Her latest album is a reflection of the musical universality of her beloved, Cape Verde.
The voice of Cape Verde is silent forever. This is a reminder of some of the songs that populated the world with the warm and rhythmic morna, that speak of the suffering of a people, who fights with sweetness the harshness of a hurt life. "Cesaria Evora &" is perhaps not the best album of the barefoot diva, but it is her last work. And to compensate the regret that this singer always felt for having been ignored by Portugal at the beginning of her career, let me make my personal tribute. The music of this record is different from her usual self because it is full of unexpected duets or not? You judge. We crossed the Atlantic with "sweet to death at sea" with the incomparable Marisa Monte, we are then cradle by the bolero "a story of love," accompanied by Tania Libertad and we end this tour thru Latin America with "deny" with Caetano Veloso. Let us make a little detour, heading north, with a small tribute to the country that recognized her as a singer, France, which is expressed with the duet "elle chante" with Bernard Lavilliers, whose words I quoted at the beginning of this text. We crossed the broad ocean and return to origins, to "our Africa" with the Senegalese Ismael Lo. Going home, to Mindelo, we listen to "moda Bo" featuring Lura. It is in a sense a dialogue between a learner and the teacher of Cape Verdean music and the inevitable farewell song "Sodade" which we always feel already after the loss of this great Creole diva. We thank you, Cesaria Evora, until we meet again one day.
