His "voice of love" pushed by the winds of the Cape Verde islands will no longer sing the melodious harmonies of the Morna and will not lean like Mindelo's boats on the ocean waves to the rhythms of the Coladera.
Cesaria Evora, the "barefoot diva" died after a short illness, but she has left a heritage of beautiful records that represent a treasure for the music of the entire continent and that are also wonderfully adapted to the atmospheres, landscapes and thoughts of East Africa and Kenya.
To celebrate her, we remember her and invite you to listen to her again, publishing a review of one of her most intense albums, "Voz d'amor" from 2003.

The barefoot diva walks her way, between Africa and the Ocean that divides her from the Empire of Music, from the West.
It's 2003, times are about to change definitively.
Even in the world of songs, globalization demands its own benefit: it imposes mixtures of genres, improbable collaborations, virtual duets.
Cesaria Evora remains barefoot, refuses to wear any soles of compromise that make him lose his grip on his land, the archipelago of Cape Verde.
They had tried to make the inconspicuous and no longer young Cesaria a star of the first magnitude: in the previous album "Sao Vicente de longe" they convinced her to have a song written by Pedro Guerra, to sing one in Portuguese with Caetano Veloso, to be accompanied by the American guitarist and songwriter Bonnie Raitt.
European and American record companies have sniffed the Queen of Morna, a new Buena Vista Social Club operation.
Remember the record arranged by Ray Cooder that became a film directed by Wim Wenders?
Like Cuba, Cape Verde all over the world!
On the other hand, his masterpiece, "Café atlantico" sold everywhere. They even tried to do worse, remixing some of his songs in a creepy ethno-techno version, to launch Coladera, the typical dance of the islands off Nigeria, in a disco.
But the antidiva remained barefoot and decided to continue her musical adventure with Lusafrica, using multinationals only to distribute her albums. Thus was born the intense and very classic album entitled "Voz d'amor". One of the masterpieces of African music that malindikenya.net will recommend you endlessly to the atmospheres of his home, those of "Cafè atlantico", to the soft and distant melancholy of his poor islands, to the wind with gusts of acoustic guitars, to the crystal clear waves of piano and the songs of violin and accordion birds. The attack, "Isolada" is already a wonder, ready to become one of its battle horses. Yes, because the strength of Cesaria Evora is not only in her expressive, clean and painful voice, but in the fact that still today, despite the richness that came at a late age, she prefers to spend a good part of the year in her archipelago and precisely on the island of Mindelo. In this way she frequents composers and musicians who have to offer her new morne morne and songs that in her hand smell intensely of wonder. So it happens when she starts to dance, in "Monte Cara" and "Amdjer de nos terra" where the saxophone takes over, but the accordion also handles tropical ankles. "Voz d'amor" is a record played masterfully and technically perfect that amazes for the passion with which Cesaria interprets songs that at first glance might seem like copies of others from the past, but the morna is like the blues, it lives of intensity and details, the dialogue between guitar and violin in "Ramboia", the spell of "Milca ti lidia" and the elusive atmosphere of "Nha curacao tchora" confirm it. "Voz d'amor" is yet another beautiful barefoot journey through the music of a queen. And when you arrive you immediately feel like leaving again, perhaps listening to "Cafè atlantico".