Cesaria Evora

There was plenty for rock & rollers to distrust about the overwhelming reception with which the world music audience greeted Cape Verde's premier chanteuse in the mid-'90s. At her most lively, Evora's version of morna disrupts the mournful strum of fado, the notoriously melancholy Portuguese peasant music, with hearty West African rhythms. But at her most genteel, she's a standard Western fantasy ...