Voices in the Feminine - Digital Delights

Cesaria Evora, who started singing as a teenager in bayside bars on the West African island nation of Cape Verde in the 1950s and won a Grammy Award in 2004 after she finally took her music to stages around the world, died Saturday.

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The "Barefoot Diva," who won a Grammy in 2003 and brought the music of Africa's Cape Verde Islands to the world, was 70.

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