Listen to this when
Sodade
For everyone who left home and carries it everywhere. Sodade. 🌊
Who it's for
The song names sodade (the Cape Verdean form of saudade), a bittersweet longing that English lacks a single word for, which can help listeners recognise and name their own homesickness.
Lonely→Understood
Feelings it meets
What it is
"Sodade" is a Cape Verdean morna written in the 1950s by Armando Zeferino Soares and popularised by Cesária Évora on her 1992 album Miss Perfumado. Its title is the Cape Verdean Creole form of the Portuguese word saudade, and the song expresses nostalgia and longing tied to Cape Verdean emigration, including contract-labour migration to São Tomé.
Where to find it
Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube Music, Amazon Music (widely available).
Before you start
Age: All ages
Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes.)Walt Whitman, “Song of Myself,” Leaves of Grass
