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Miss Perfumado
There's a word for missing a place you can't go back to. Cape Verde built a whole genre around it. 🌊 #CesariaEvora
Who it's for
The album opens with 'Sodade', a song about the Cape Verdean diaspora's longing for home, and the rest of the record stays in morna's bittersweet register.
Feelings it meets
What it is
Miss Perfumado is Cesária Évora's fourth album, released in 1992 on Lusafrica and produced by Paulino Vieira. It blends morna and coladeira, two Cape Verdean genres. It includes 'Sodade', one of her best-known songs, which expresses the longing for the homeland felt by Cape Verdeans living abroad. It also includes 'Angola', which helped her earn her first gold record in France.
Where to find it
Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube Music, Amazon Music and other major streaming services; CD/vinyl from the label and usual retailers.
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Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes.)Walt Whitman, “Song of Myself,” Leaves of Grass
