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| | Cape Verdean Blues (10/15/97) |
 | | And though she strikes a dazzling image in performance, draped in flowing colorful African gowns and, yes, without shoes, it is her voice, singing emotional tales of longing and homesickness, that communicates to audiences worldwide. |
 | | This went on for decades, until 1988 when Lusafrica Records' Jose Da Silva, a French producer of Cape Verdean descent, saw her in concert, took her to a recording studio in Paris and the rest, as they say, is history. |
 | | It tells a tale that has become part of the Cape Verdean collective culture of young, nostalgic islanders who were taken to Sao Tome to work on the cocoa and banana plantations in the 1950s. |
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