{"id":348,"date":"2011-12-17T15:31:22","date_gmt":"2011-12-17T20:31:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/?p=348"},"modified":"2011-12-17T15:31:22","modified_gmt":"2011-12-17T20:31:22","slug":"cabo-verde-barefoot-diva-cesaria-evora-dead-at-70","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/2011\/12\/17\/cabo-verde-barefoot-diva-cesaria-evora-dead-at-70\/","title":{"rendered":"Cabo Verde &#8216;barefoot diva&#8217; Cesaria Evora dead at 70"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uR7HKOP55AQ?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/207.112.70.56\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/evora.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-349\" title=\"evora\" src=\"http:\/\/207.112.70.56\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/evora.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"252\" height=\"252\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/12\/evora.jpg 252w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/12\/evora-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 252px) 100vw, 252px\" \/><\/a>This song about the little country that she loved so much is the one that I will associate most with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cesaria-evora.com\/?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\">Cesaria Evora<\/a>, the Cabo Verdean &#8220;barefoot diva,&#8221; who has died, aged 70.<\/p>\n<p>She was a regular visitor to Toronto over the past 20 years, as she collected hundreds of thousands of fans of every musical persuasion around the world with her art, <em>morna<\/em> &#8212; the Portuguese-language blues of her island home.<\/p>\n<p>Evora was the opposite of everything that the pop world is all about: Although she started singing in local bars at age 15, she didn&#8217;t make an album until she as in her mid-40s, and avoided anything that wasn&#8217;t strictly about making the kind of music she cared about.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to a lifetime of smoking and drinking, Evora&#8217;s vocal chords often sounded as if they were carrying all of the world&#8217;s woes in each note.<\/p>\n<p>Evora had been in inceasingly fragile health since a stroke in 2008. She cancelled her last attempt at a tour in September.<\/p>\n<p>Garth Cartwright has written a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/music\/2011\/dec\/17\/cesaria-evora\" target=\"_blank\">nice, informative obituary in the Guardian<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Here is another of Evora&#8217;s favourites, &#8220;Sodade,&#8221; from a 2004 live performance in Paris:<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dNVrdYGiULM?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This song about the little country that she loved so much is the one that I will associate most with Cesaria Evora, the Cabo Verdean &#8220;barefoot diva,&#8221; who has died, aged 70. She was a regular visitor to Toronto over the past 20 years, as she collected hundreds of thousands of fans of every musical [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":350,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[36,39,51,70,73],"tags":[6470],"yst_prominent_words":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/12\/cesaria-evora-22.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9bakr-5C","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}