- country:Cape Verde
- style(s):Cape Verde
- label:Harmonia Lda
- type:Large Ensemble
- artist contact:LMD Productions
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Cesaria Evora's sudden death on December 17, 2011 was a source of great emotion for her fans, who gathered in their thousands in 2012 to honor her memory at memorable concerts in Toulouse, Lisbon, Amsterdam and Paris.
Around the musicians who usually accompanied the singer, the greatest voices of world music came to pay their final tribute to the one nicknamed La Diva aux pieds nus (The Barefoot Diva) - among them Bonga, Angélique Kidjo, Lura, Ismaël Lô, Mayra Andrade, Bernard Lavilliers and Tito Paris, to name but a few.
After these great masses, the musicians had only one desire: to keep Cesaria's repertoire alive, which had enchanted audiences on stages all over the world. That's how they came together under the name Cesaria Evora Orchestra for a first concert, in 2014 at the Kriol Jazz Festival in Praia (Cape Verde), in tribute to the icon of world music and her work, notably as an Ambassador of Cape Verdean music.
Since then, the Cesaria Evora Orchestra has performed regularly around the world to celebrate Cesaria Evora.
The current line-up is made up of the crème de la crème of today's Cape Verdean artists: Ceuzany, Elida Almeida, Lucibela and Teofilo Chantre.