{"id":328,"date":"2011-12-17T17:16:00","date_gmt":"2011-12-17T17:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elsaoutofthebox.com\/2011\/12\/the-barefoot-diva-cesaria-evora\/"},"modified":"2011-12-17T17:16:00","modified_gmt":"2011-12-17T17:16:00","slug":"the-barefoot-diva-cesaria-evora","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elsaoutofthebox.com\/?p=328","title":{"rendered":"The Barefoot Diva, Ces\u00e1ria \u00c9vora"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">The barefoot diva of music with the bright voice was born on the 27th August 1941 in Mindelo, Cape Verde. Cesaria was given that nickname since she performed without shoes. This was a reminder of her poor childhood.<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/elsaoutofthebox.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/cesaria11.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" height=\"320\" src=\"http:\/\/elsaoutofthebox.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/cesaria1.jpg\" width=\"316\" \/>&nbsp;<\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<p><a name='more'><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\">Cesaria lost her father at a young age and was raised by her mother. She ended up living in an orphanage where she first started to sing. <\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\">\u00c9vora was perhaps the best internationally known practitioner of&nbsp; &#8220;morna&#8221;. <\/div>\n<p>In late September 2011, Evora&#8217;s agent Lusafrica announced that she had ended her singing career due to poor health.<sup><\/sup><br \/><sup><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ces%C3%A1ria_%C3%89vora#cite_note-2\"><\/a><\/sup>Today Ces\u00e1ria \u00c9vora died in Sao Vicente<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/S%C3%A3o_Vicente,_Cape_Verde\" title=\"S\u00e3o Vicente, Cape Verde\"><\/a>, in her native Cape Verde<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cape_Verde\" title=\"Cape Verde\"><\/a>, from cardiorespiratory insufficiency and hypertension. She was 70 wears old.<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><object class codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\" data-thumbnail-src=\"http:\/\/2.gvt0.com\/vi\/ERYY8GJ-i0I\/0.jpg\" height=\"266\" width=\"320\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/ERYY8GJ-i0I&#038;fs=1&#038;source=uds\" \/><param name=\"bgcolor\" value=\"#FFFFFF\" \/><embed width=\"320\" height=\"266\"  src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/ERYY8GJ-i0I&#038;fs=1&#038;source=uds\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\"><\/embed><\/object>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<p>One of the most amazing voices is gone but her music will never sleep. We&#8217;ll miss you.<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The barefoot diva of music with the bright voice was born on the 27th August 1941 in Mindelo, Cape Verde. Cesaria was given that nickname since she performed without shoes. This was a reminder of her poor childhood. &nbsp; Cesaria lost her father at a young age and was raised by her mother. She ended&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/elsaoutofthebox.com\/?p=328\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Barefoot Diva, Ces\u00e1ria \u00c9vora<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2321,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[193,379,725],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elsaoutofthebox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elsaoutofthebox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elsaoutofthebox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elsaoutofthebox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elsaoutofthebox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elsaoutofthebox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elsaoutofthebox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elsaoutofthebox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elsaoutofthebox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elsaoutofthebox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}