Cesaria Evora

moment d antologie que cette interprétation !!!!! émission sublime avec bernard lavilliers et manu dibango

11 Mars 1995, Cesaria is performing at Les Sables d'Olonne, in France.

For french TV France 2, she explains that it's the first time she's ever seen the ocean from this side... and that success makes life easier for her and her family.

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"É doce morrer no mar
Nas ondas verdes do mar
É doce morrer no mar
Nas ondas verdes do mar
A noite que ele não veio foi
Foi de tristeza prá mim
Saveiro voltou sozinho
Triste noite foi prá mim"

Composed in 1999 for Cesária Évora by the Cape-Verdean musician Pedro Rodrigues – also author of the beautiful “Nha Cancera Ka Tem Medida” sung by the diva – this ode to the Carnival of São Vicente that takes place every year in Cape Verde is a samba, as a tribute to the music that is played during the Rio de Janeiro’s festivities.

"São Vicente é um brasilin
Chei di ligria chei di cor
Ness três dia di loucura
Ca ten guerra ê carnaval
Ness morabeza sen igual"

"São Vicente is a little Brazil
Full of joy and colours
During these three wild days
There are no brawls
It is the carnival
A jubilation
To be found nowhere else"