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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 1,122,652 page views. Her biography is available in 65 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 63 in 2019). Cesária Évora is the 29th most popular singer (down from 27th in 2019), the most popular biography from Cape Verde and the most popular Cape Verdian Singer.

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

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  • 65

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 10.90

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.82

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Among SINGERS

Among singers, Cesária Évora ranks 29 out of 3,528. Before her are Barbra Streisand, Tupac Shakur, Johnny Cash, Agnetha Fältskog, Serge Gainsbourg, and Umm Kulthum. After her are Brian Johnson, Whitney Houston, Barry White, Nana Mouskouri, James Brown, and Jacques Brel.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1941, Cesária Évora ranks 11. Before her are Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Bernardo Bertolucci, Sergio Mattarella, Charlie Watts, and Richard Dawkins. After her are Krzysztof Kieślowski, Martha Argerich, Plácido Domingo, Bruno Ganz, Fethullah Gülen, and Lee Myung-bak. Among people deceased in 2011, Cesária Évora ranks 8. Before her are Muammar Gaddafi, Kim Jong-il, Osama bin Laden, Václav Havel, Elizabeth Taylor, and Otto von Habsburg. After her are Burhanuddin Rabbani, Sathya Sai Baba, Peter Falk, Svetlana Alliluyeva, Wangari Maathai, and Sócrates.

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In Cape Verde

Among people born in Cape Verde, Cesária Évora ranks 1 out of 22. After her are Jorge Carlos Fonseca (1950), Pedro Pires (1934), Aristides Pereira (1923), António Mascarenhas Monteiro (1944), José Maria Neves (1960), Carlos Veiga (1949), Ulisses Correia e Silva (1962), Arlindo Gomes Furtado (1949), Oceano Cruz (1962), Gualberto do Rosário (1950), and Rolando (1985).

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Among SINGERS In Cape Verde

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

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