Cesária Évora, the Grammy-winning singer from Cape Verde, died on Saturday on her native island of Sao Vicente in Cape Verde, according to a statement released by her label, Lusafrica, on its website.

LISBON, Portuga - Cesaria Evora, who started singing as a teenager in the bayside bars of Cape Verde in the 1950s and won a Grammy in 2003 after she took her African islands music to stages across the ...