Cesaria Evora: Cape Verde's voice of hope [Music]

Listen to Sodade first. Then make up your mind if you want to listen to more (I promise you will!). A  HeadButler share (he interviewed her about 10 years ago)

It wasn't until her 50s that she became the darling of the world-music crowd. She still performed shoeless, to express her solidarity with her impoverished countrymen. She still stopped singing in mid-concert to sit at a small table and smoke a cigarette. And she never veered from the music she'd made for decades; the last thing on her mind, it seemed, was mass success