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- noun A
genre ofCape Verdean music.
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Examples
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Ms. évora's music was in a style called morna, which is sung in taverns on the Cape Verde islands: slow, pensive ballads with an underlying lilt, suffused with sodade, the Cape Verdean creole term for a nostalgic longing that pervades music across Portugal where the word is saudade and its former empire.
NYT > Home Page By JON PARELES 2011
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Its biggest music star is Césaria Évora, the bare-footed singer who brought "morna," the islands 'native folk music, to the world in the 1990s.
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Evora, known to her close friends as Cize pronounced see-ZEH, was the best-known performer of "morna," Cape Verde's national music.
Cesaria Evora Dead: 'Barefoot Diva,' Grammy-Award Winning Singer From Cape Verde, Dies At Age 70 2011
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In fact, Cesaria Evora's specialty was morna, an intensely melancholy, minor-key music, sung mostly in Portuguese.
Jesse Kornbluth: Cesaria Evora (1941-2011): One of the Great Divas, Too Little Known Jesse Kornbluth 2011
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Ai akshuawlly gotta go, but ai will chek bak, n bai den, der will be morna hundred kommentz 4 dis hyper-kyoot liddel kitteh.
New MGM mascot. - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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This multiple-time Grammy nominee and Cape Verde native is a master of morna, a Creole-language music streaked with Brazilian and Portuguese influences and punctuated by colorful instruments such as the ukulele and accordion.
Time Off 2008
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A typical Cesaria Evora album consists of various morna interspersed with a couple of upbeat dance numbers.
Cesaria Evora, Rogamar (RCA Victor, 2006) smg58 2007
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It is often compared to the blues, and one theory behind the word “morna” is that it comes from the English word “to mourn.”
Cesaria Evora, Rogamar (RCA Victor, 2006) smg58 2007
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In the process, the world embraced her melancholy sounds of morna, a bewitching mix of Portuguese fado and Afro-Caribbean and Brazilian rhythms, telling tales of love and longing, sadness and loss.
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In the process, the world embraced her melancholy sounds of morna, a bewitching mix of Portuguese fado and Afro-Caribbean and Brazilian rhythms, telling tales of love and longing, sadness and loss.
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