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CESARIA EVORA, CANDIDATE FOR THE PRINCE OF ASTURIAS AWARD FOR CONCORD 2007
26 of July 2007
The Cape Vert singer Cesaria Evora has been nominated for the Prince of Asturias Award for Concord 2007, as the Prince of Asturias Foundation has communicated today, 26th July. The Foundation has revealed that they have chosen Cesaria because she represents at the same time the voice of the african slaves of the past, and also the hopeful present that Africa is living today.
Cesaria Evora, who has said that she is very honoured and happy for this candidature, is today in Gijón (Asturias), where she will be giving a concert tonight.
Prince of Asturias Award for Concord is bestowed upon the person, persons or institution whose work has made an exemplary and outstanding contribution to mutual understanding and peaceful coexistence amongst men, to the struggle against injustice, poverty, disease or ignorance, to the defence of freedom, or whose work has widened the horizons of knowledge or has been outstanding in protecting and preserving mankind's heritage. |
