Cesaria Evora, a star living simply, and singing, just singing
Submitted on November 5, 2003 - 1:00am.
Ruxandra Giura - Fall 2003
WASHINGTON – There were no fans hanging near the star's hotel room door. No camera flashes. Five-time Grammy nominee Cesaria Evora, 62, stood ironing a T-shirt and getting ready to take a nap a few hours before her Friday night concert.
The T-shirt was for the following day's trip to another of the 18 concerts on her American tour, which ends Nov. 23 in Philadelphia.
She came here to promote her new album "Voz D'Amor" – a new collection of mornas, slow-paced, blues-steeped songs with mournful and often-fatalistic lyrics, and coladeras, spirited up-tempo tunes that share a kinship with Brazilian samba – all sung in Kreolu, the language of her native Cape Verde.
The T-shirt was for the following day's trip to another of the 18 concerts on her American tour, which ends Nov. 23 in Philadelphia.
She came here to promote her new album "Voz D'Amor" – a new collection of mornas, slow-paced, blues-steeped songs with mournful and often-fatalistic lyrics, and coladeras, spirited up-tempo tunes that share a kinship with Brazilian samba – all sung in Kreolu, the language of her native Cape Verde.
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