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今日はセザリア・エヴォラ生誕78周年の日。


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Today’s Doodle celebrates world-renowned Cape Verdean singer Cesária Évora. Born in Mindelo, a port city on
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the island of São Vicente off the West African coast on this day in 1941, Cesária grew up in an orphanage and

began singing in bars and cruise ships as a teenager. Her specialty was morna, the bluesy national music of
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Cape Verde, which she would bring to an international audience−earning many accolades, including a Grammy
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Award.

Évora’s poignant voice was perfectly suited to morna music, and her life experiences imbued her songs of love
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and loss with unmistakable feeling. Known for performing barefoot, she sang in Kriolu, a blend of Portugese and
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African dialects, accompanied by piano, guitar, or cavaquinho, a four-stringed Portuguese guitar. Although she
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was invited to sing on local radio, and two of these recordings were released in Europe, she could not support

herself solely with her music career and retired from singing for many years.

In her mid-40s, Évora traveled to Portugal for a recording session, where she impressed Josè Da Silva, a

French concert promoter of Cape Verdean descent. Da Silva invited her to Paris, and starting in the late 1980s,

Évora recorded several albums for his label, starting with La Diva aux pieds nus (“The Barefoot Diva”), which

brought her to a new audience.

Évora went on to tour the world and won a 2003 Grammy Award for her album Voz d’amor, as well as two Kora

awards from the African music industry.

Never distracted by stardom, she worked hard even in declining health and used her fame to help others,

serving as an ambassador for the UN’s World Food Program. The airport on her home island of São Vicente

was named in her honor, with a statue and mural commemorating the beloved “Queen of Morna.”