Cesaria Evora arrives from Cape Verde, the barefoot diva, with that link of different musical cultures and its inexhaustible source of exquisiteness.
The singer Cesaria Evora releases the next 7 March a new album, ”Rogamar”, the tenth of his career and loaded with a message of strength, courage and tenacity, as announced by his record company.
The artist from Cape Verde, born in Mindelo ago 64 years old, brings together songs by composers such as Manuel de Novas, a former navigator, Teofilo Chantre, a parisian musician, both linked inseparably to the rhythm of ”longing”, what many call the ”portuguese blues”, reported DPA.
Cesaria also collaborates with other younger composers from the Mindelo area, Constantino Cardoso and Jon Luz, creators of a series of native rhythms.
”The languishing flower, the crying child, the passing cloud, all this is nostalgia, sadness. The world changes, but my story goes on”, sings Cesaria in ”A Stroke”.
Accompany the artist Fernando Andrade, his usual pianist since 1999. Also, six of the fifteen songs on the album feature the collaboration of Brazilian Jaques Morelenbaum, cellist and arranger who collaborated with Jobim, Milton Nascimento and Caetano Veloso.
The title of ”Rogamar” comes from the mixture of rogar and sea. The songs are sung in Portuguese Creole.
Cesaria has sold more than five million albums worldwide since 1988 published his first work, ”The Barefoot Diva”.
extracted from http://www.eluniversal.com
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