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Lead Performance: Cesaria Evora; Genre: World
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This lady sings the morna — the Cape Verdean version of the blues — with the kind of lament and longing that brings tears to your eyes. A 1991 import only now being released here, Mar Azul is a package of mellifluous Portuguese songs representing the romance of her native Sao Vicente. Evora's gift for conveying vulnerability across language and culture is astonishing. Like Bessie Smith and Billie Holiday, she evokes thoughts of hearts won and lost. A-
Posted Mar 12, 1999
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