Cesaria Evora
“Welcome to my home” in Cape Verde.
São Vincente, one of the ten Cape Verde islands, Mindelo City. Behind the Presidental Palace House, at Fernado Fereira Fortes Avenue, lives the “barefoot diva”. The lady who sings mornas, the ocean’s blues which was born in Cape Verde. She invites us to live four days, moment by moment, with her.
Cezaria buys fruits, fresh fish and clothes from the merchants that pass by her window. At midday, like in the monasteries, she prepares the local “cachupa” lunch where everybody is invited: from her family, neighbors and friends, to tourists and journalists.
Her house is like the house of providence. It is known that many times she ‘shares’ money to help her compatriots.
Photographs & Interview:© Maro Kouri
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Aotearoa: Land of the White Cloud
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