Miss Perfumado is the fourth album byCape Verdean vocalistCesária Évora, released in 1992. It sold more than 300,000 copies worldwide.[1][2] It included one of her most celebrated songs, "Sodade", composed by Armando Zeferino Soares. The song speaks about the sense of longing for her homeland that the Cape Verdean diaspora experience when away from the island nation.[3]
Both the seventh song and the album are named after a song that was made byB. Leza. The sixth song, "Angola", composed byRamiro Mendes, helped Évora to achieve her first gold record in France. That track would later be adapted into a 1997 single called "Pa Manyen", by former President of HaitiMichel Martelly, which later became a hit.The album was well received.[4][5] The lyrics of the songs are in Portuguese andCape Verdean Creole, for example those of the songMiss Perfumado.[6]
Miss Perfumado Dxam morrê ta sonha Na sombra di odjo magoado Duma pequena gentil Di corpo perfumado
Assim dxam morrê ô flor Na sombra di bo odjinho[6] ....
Translation:
Scented Miss Let me die dreaming In the shadow of the grieved eyes Of a gentle girl With a perfumed body
Let me die like this, O flower In the shadow of your little eyes ....
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