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On the large kitchen‘s table Cezaria serves the delicious local dish ‘cachupa’, salads, fresh fish, and some red Portuguese wine. Everyone is welcome, like in a monastery! Mindelo,Cape Verde © Maro Kouri
MKCEL_CZ_01		 Cezaria Evora in her kitchen, cooks the delicious local dish ‘cachupa’ for everyone who passes by her place - like in the monasteries!Mindelo, Cape Verde © Maro Kouri
MKCEL_CZ_02		 Cezaria Evora in her house: On the shelves, gifts given from her funs all over the world, are in order. "They have no value except that they are full of love", she says. Mindelo, Cape Verde © Maro Kouri
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Cezaria Evora in her house, shows us the countless gold and platinum records and awards that she had won around the world. Among them the 2004 Grammy. Mindelo, Cape Verde © Maro Kouri
MKCEL_CZ_04		 Cezaria Evora in her kitchen:On the large table she puts the delicious local dish ‘cachupa’, salads, fresh fish, and red Portuguese wine. Everybody is welcome, like in a monastery! Mindelo, Cape Verde © Maro Kouri
MKCEL_CZ_05		 Cezaria Evora in her house, smoking all the time. It is very seldom to find her alone. Most of the time, her house is full of people:her family, friends, funs that they come from all over to see her. Then, she cooks for everybody the local dish "cachupa". Mindelo, Cape Verde. © Maro Kouri
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Cezaria Evora outside her house where children come to give her a kiss. All her compatriots love her, as she use to help them in many ways, for example by lending them money and never asking it back. Mindelo, Cape Verde © Maro Kouri
MKCEL_CZ_07		 Cezaria Evora in her house:Pirok, the young housekeeper, dances over the house as he cooks, cleans, or serves the visitors. Most of the time he brings to his aunt her common cup of water. He has a charismatic personality. Mindelo, Cape Verde. © Maro Kouri
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Cezaria Evora in her house: "Every night I sleep with Julio Inglesias‘ photograph, in the morning I drink my coffee with Elvis‘ photograph, and then I sing together with Charles Aznavour...", she tells us. Mindelo, Cape Verde © Maro Kouri
MKCEL_CZ_11		 Cezaria Evora welcomes daily in her house a lot of friends, family members, funs and journalists from all over the world. She is famous for her hospitality. Mindelo, Cape Verde. © Maro Kouri
MKCEL_CZ_12		 Cesaria Evora in her house: A fisher-woman comes to sell the fish of the day. A friend passes by to sell her scarves & clothes. In a while the cheese merchant... Cezaria shares money, buying for everybody. Her house is like the house of providence. She has lent money to some of her compatriots to help them. She never took it back. Mindelo, Cape Verde © Maro Kouri
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Cezaria Evora in her house: A Cape Verdian hip-hop rhythm sounds loudly inside the house. We sink into the corridor and we find Cezaria’s 15 years old grand daughter Jeannet practicing the Brazilian fight-dance ‘capoerira’. Mindelo, Cape Verde © Maro Kouri
MKCEL_CZ_14		 Cezaria Evora in her house: Sixteen year old Cezi (her nickname) will never grow up... Mindelo, Cape Verde © Maro Kouri
MKCEL_CZ_15		 Cezaria Evora in her house, in Mindelo: "As we say in Cape Verde, life consists of poison and honey. Since I took the poison, now, I taste the honey", she tells us. © Maro Kouri
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Cezaria Evora in her house: After ten years in depression and in alcoholism, now she drinks only water & she travels around the world wherever she is invited to sing. Mindelo, Cape Verde © Maro Kouri
MKCEL_CZ_17		 Cezaria Evora in her house, in Mindelo: "As we say in Cape Verde, life consists of poison and honey. Since I took the poison, now, I taste the honey", she tells us. © Maro Kouri
MKCEL_CZ_18		 Cezaria Evora house & her daughter‘s car in Mindelo,Cape Verde © Maro Kouri
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Cezaria Evora in her house:From the outside door, we discern her behind a plastic flapping curtain, amid her endless cigarette smoke. Mindelo, Cape Verde © Maro Kouri
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