Global Rhythm Magazine Volume XIV #3, March 2005

Now a global figure, Césaria Evora sings in the best venues of the cosmopolitan capitals, and may be the closest we have to a universal voice. Her art is a personal distillation of a wealth of elements, and the highest expression of the sensibility of the Cape Verdean people, inventors of what we’ve come to call Creole culture. For audiences around the world, Evora’s voice resonates on many levels: we hear blues, Brazilian pop, Portuguese fado, French chanson and Cuban habanera echoing on and on.