Sodade evora arvanitaki biography

"Sodade" is a Cape Verdean song written in the 1950s by Armando Zeferino Soares,^[1] and best popularized by Cesária Évora on her 1992 album Miss Perfumado. The name is the Cape Verdean Creole variant of the Portuguese term saudade.

The authorship of the song was contested, notably by the duo Amândio Cabral and Luís Morais, until a court ruled in December 2006 that Soares was the author.^[1]

Background

Sodade describes the nostalgia experienced by Cape Verdeans emigrants who have been seafarers and emigrants for centuries, repeating the question "Ken mostro-b es kaminhu longe?" ("Who showed you the faraway path?")^[2] Cape Verdeans have been voluntarily migrating from Cape Verde to every continent, since as early 1800s.

The earliest recorded migration of Cape Verdeans was to New England, because they were recruited as whalers for their exceptional seafaring skills as whalers and whale captains. This started the trend of voluntary Eleftheria Arvanitaki | Panik SOCYJ