Cesária Évora
Also Known As: Cesaria Evora
Biography: Cesária Évora was a Cape Verdean singer-songwriter. She received a Grammy Award in 2004 for her album Voz d'Amor. Nicknamed the "Barefoot Diva" for performing without shoes, she was known as the "Queen of Morna".
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Mindelo, Portuguese Cape Verde
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Deathday: December 17, 2011
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Cesária Évora
Overview: World renowned performer Cesária Évora’s voice took her from poverty to stardom. With previously unseen footage and insights into the singer’s life, the film follows her struggles and success.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2023-11-29
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Bernard Lavilliers Escale au Grand Rex
Overview: http://www.sortiesdvd.com/film-318.html
Genres: Music
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2005-10-10
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Cesaria Evora: Live in Paris
Overview: Singer Cesaria Evora is the cultural ambassador and greatest star of her native country, Cape Verde, a former Portuguese colony off the Northwestern coast of Africa. She excels at the highly stylized and emotionally intense ballad style known as the "morna," a melodramatic, mournful romantic music that is much like the Portuguese fado, full of beautiful, melancholy guitars and impassioned lyrics of love lost and life both savored and endured. For those of us unlucky enough to be unable to attend any of her concerts, here is a splendid presentation of Cesaria and her band, recorded live at the Zenith Theatre in Spring of 2001.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-03-18
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Cesaria Evora: Estival Jazz Lugano
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Genres: Music
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2007-02-28
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Cesaria Evora - Morna Blues
Overview: International success has put the heart-rending melodies of the morna, the Cape-Verdean blues, firmly on the world music map. At once generous and secretive, swaying to the rhythms of the waves, this film is made in the image of Cesaria Evora, the unchallenged queen of the morna.
Genres: Music Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-05-20
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Cesaria Evora: Live in Paris
Overview: Singer Cesaria Evora is the cultural ambassador and greatest star of her native country, Cape Verde, a former Portuguese colony off the Northwestern coast of Africa. She excels at the highly stylized and emotionally intense ballad style known as the "morna," a melodramatic, mournful romantic music that is much like the Portuguese fado, full of beautiful, melancholy guitars and impassioned lyrics of love lost and life both savored and endured. For those of us unlucky enough to be unable to attend any of her concerts, here is a splendid presentation of Cesaria and her band, recorded live at the Zenith Theatre in Spring of 2001.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-01-23
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Kontinuasom
Overview: "Beti is a dancer in the Raiz di Polon company in Cape Verde. She receives an offer from Lisbon to join a Cape Verde music show and start a new career there. The offer unchains the deep-set Cape Verde conflict in her: identity built on the Diaspora century after century. Doubts, nostalgia, uprooting, they all soar over her and accompany her decision. The same dilemma that surrounds all Cape Verdeans, the yearning to leave, the yearning to return. Expressed and brought together around music, hallmark of the people of Cape Verde."
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-03-01
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Black Dju
Overview: This standard slice-of-life drama is about Dju Dibonga (Richard Courcet), a young man who leaves his home on Cabo Verde, an island of Portuguese dependency off the coast of Africa, to go to Luxembourg and search for his father. Far from his home village and unfamiliar with the large city, the young black man forms an unlikely friendship with a down-and-out white policeman whose only consolation in life is found at the bottom of a bottle. Their developing companionship forms the main focus of this movie directed by Pol Cruchten.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1997-11-28
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Looking for Cesária Évora
Overview: Cesária Évora made the music of the Cape Verde islands famous throughout the world in the early 1990s. This film is an introduction to the culture, music and zest for life of the Cape Verdean people. On the occasion of the famous carnival of Mindelno, on the island of São Vicente where Cesaria Évora was born, this documentary offers a musical journey to discover "Sodade" and its legacy. Cesaria Évora, who died in 2011 after a twenty-year career, has allowed Cape Verde to shine throughout the world. The "barefoot diva", considered the queen of the morna has conquered the world and inspired many Cape Verdean artists. The small archipelago, which was for several centuries an important hub of the slave trade has promoted since then an important ethnic mix, which has played an important role in the evolution of local music.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2019-06-09
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Napomuceno's Will
Overview: Nopumoceno, the most successful businessman in the Cabo Verde archipelogo, is an ambitious, clever opportunist, known during his lifetime as "eternity single". However, he is then discovered by his illegitimate daughter to have gotten his fortune and his women in unorthodox and incredible ways
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1997-01-01
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