SINGER

Cesária Évora

1941 - 2011

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Cesária Évora GCIH (Portuguese pronunciation: [sɨˈzaɾiɐ ˈɛvuɾɐ]; 27 August 1941 – 17 December 2011) was a Cape Verdean singer known for singing morna, a genre of music from Cape Verde, in her native Cape Verdean Creole. Her songs were often devoted to themes of love, homesickness, nostalgia, and the history of the Cape Verdean people. She was known for performing barefoot and for her habit of smoking and drinking on stage during intermissions. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Cesária Évora has received more than 1,186,388 page views. Her biography is available in 65 different languages on Wikipedia. Cesária Évora is the 29th most popular singer, the most popular biography from Cabo Verde and the most popular Singer.

Cesária Évora is a Cape Verdean singer who is most famous for her singing of the Cape Verdean morna.

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  • 1.2M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 72.37

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 65

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 11.51

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.87

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among SINGERS

Among singers, Cesária Évora ranks 29 out of 4,381. Before her are Patti Smith, Montserrat Caballé, Umm Kulthum, Brian Johnson, Farinelli, and Serge Gainsbourg. After her are Whitney Houston, Johnny Cash, Celine Dion, Mireille Mathieu, Nana Mouskouri, and Nico.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1941, Cesária Évora ranks 10. Before her are Alex Ferguson, Slobodan Milošević, Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Sergio Mattarella, and Bernardo Bertolucci. After her are Václav Klaus, Krzysztof Kieślowski, Robert Forster, Plácido Domingo, Bruno Ganz, and Richard Dawkins. Among people deceased in 2011, Cesária Évora ranks 8. Before her are Muammar Gaddafi, Kim Jong-il, Václav Havel, Osama bin Laden, Elizabeth Taylor, and Otto von Habsburg. After her are Svetlana Alliluyeva, Peter Falk, Wangari Maathai, Sócrates, Sathya Sai Baba, and Joe Frazier.

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In Cabo Verde

Among people born in Cabo Verde, Cesária Évora ranks 1 out of 23. After her are Aristides Pereira (1923), Pedro Pires (1934), José Maria Neves (1960), Jorge Carlos Fonseca (1950), António Mascarenhas Monteiro (1944), Ulisses Correia e Silva (1962), Carlos Veiga (1949), Arlindo Gomes Furtado (1949), Oceano Cruz (1962), Gualberto do Rosário (1950), and Edy Tavares (1992).

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Among SINGERS In Cabo Verde

Among singers born in Cabo Verde, Cesária Évora ranks 1. 

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