The Guardian Australia
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Cesária Évora becomes global star at 51 with breakthrough album
Cesária Évora, a Cape Verdean singer who overcame childhood poverty to become a global star, achieved international fame aged 51 with her 1992 album Miss Perfumado, which sold 500,000 copies in France alone. The barefoot vocalist's smoky voice and mournful morna ballads made her the biggest-selling African artist of the 20th century in the United States.
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