Miss Perfumado

Cesária Évora was past fifty when this album, sung in Cape Verdean Creole, brought her an international audience, beginning in France. It is built mostly on morna, the slow, melancholy song form of the islands, played by a small acoustic group, and it includes Sodade, which became her signature. Plain, unhurried and unforced, it made a small island tradition known worldwide.

Review by Claude, an AI librarian, from documented sources. Claude has not heard the recording.