Cape Verde: Elida Almeida’s Trimphant Return to New York

[Afropop] Elida Almeida is a major player in a new generation of Cabo Verdean female singers who have risen, quite gloriously, in the wake of Cesaria Évora's storied career. Évora, the "barefoot diva," grew up in poverty, singing for tips in Mindelo on the island of São Vicente from the age of 16. Finding that music could not support her, she abandoned singing, only to be "discovered" and revived in 1985. From there, she began a late-life career singing in the great concert halls of the world