Edited by Azizi Powell
This post presents information about Portuguese Cape Verdian singer Sara Tavares and showcases one sound file of the song Longe do Mundo and one video of her singing "Ginga"
Portuguese lyrics and English translations of the song Longe do Mundo is also included in this post. Tat song are also included in this post.
The content of this post is presented for cultural, entertainment, and aesthetic purposes.
All copyrights remain with their owner.
Thanks to Sara Tavares for her musical legacy. Thanks to all those who are quoted in this post and thanks to the publishers of these YouTube examples.
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INFORMATION ABOUT SARA TAVARES
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sara_Tavares
"Sara Alexandra Lima Tavares (born 1 February 1978) is a Portuguese singer, composer, guitarist and percussionist. She was born and brought up in Lisbon, Portugal, where she still lives. Second-generation Portuguese of Cape Verdean descent, she composes African, Portuguese and North American influenced world music. She composes in Portuguese and Portuguese-based creole languages. Although Portuguese is the main language of her songs, it's not rare to find in her repertoire multilingual songs mixing Portuguese with Portuguese creole and even English in the same song (e.g."One Love").
Tavares won the 1993/1994 final of the Endemol song contest Chuva de Estrelas (performing Whitney Houston's "One Moment in Time"), which helped her win the Portuguese Television Song Contest final in 1994, consequently earning a place in the 1994 Eurovision Song Contest, with the song "Chamar a Música" reaching 8th place.
She's also known for singing the European-Portuguese version of "God Help the Outcasts" for the Disney movie "The Hunchback of Notre Dame," which won a Disney award for the best version of the original song. She also won a Portuguese Golden Globe for Best Portuguese Singer in 2000….
Her more recent work is much more influenced by jazz, soul and African music, and she has a strong following amongst jazz enthusiasts.
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SHOWCASE EXAMPLES
Example #1: Longe do Mundo - Sara Tavares (lyrics) [English translation: Far from the World]
Sandra Reis, Uploaded on Jan 6, 2008
Eu não sei se vais ouvir-me
Se estás aí ou não
Eu não sei se compreendes
Esta oração
Se eu p'ra ti sou uma estranha
Que o coração perdeu
É ao ver-te que eu pergunto
Se já foste como eu
Longe do mundo, perto de ti
Peço conforto de quem eu fugi
Perdida, esquecida eu oro a ti
Longe do mundo mas perto de ti
Peço conforto e nada mais
Na voz dos que sofrem padecem sinais
Vêm de longe e chegam por fim
Quem vai ouvi-los? quem sofre assim?
Eu não sei se vais lembrar-te
De um coração tão só
Coração tão vagabundo
Que perde, chora, todos os dias
Longe do mundo mas perto de ti
Peço conforto de quem eu fugi
Venho de longe e chego por fim
Quem vai ouvir-me chama assim
Perdida, esquecida, aqui ao orar
Longe do mundo mas perto de ti...
English translation [from Portuguese]
I do not know if you're gonna hear me
If you are there or not
I do not know if you understand
this prayer
If I'm a stranger you p'ra
The heart lost
It is to see you I ask
If thou wast as I
Far from the world near you
I beg comfort of who I ran away
Lost, forgotten, I pray thee
Away from the world but close to you
I pray comfort and nothing more
The voice of those who suffer suffer signs
They come from far and arrive finally
Who will hear them? those who suffer so?
I do not know if you will remember
A heart so alone
Heart so bum
You lose, cry, every day
Away from the world but close to you
I beg comfort of who I ran away
I come from far and arrive finally
Who will hear me call so
Lost, forgotten, here to pray
Away from the world but close to you ...
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Example #2: World Music Winners - Cape Verde - Sara Tavares - Female Guitar Virtuoso
Seka Moke Published on Jun 20, 2012
World Music Winners - Cape Verde - Sara Tavares - Female Guitar Virtuoso
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Selected comments from this video's discussion thread
2013
Hermi Cruz
"My tiny country Cape Verde Islands has beautiful music due to the blend of all cultures that stopped by."
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carlosrd68
"I am telling you. Not sure how it happened, Brazil, Guinea Bissau, Cape Verde. They put out this sweet rhythm that just naturally lifts you up. The Portuguese, the African, and the Brazilian influence. Just shake my head and say this is good."
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Susan Dhifaoui
"the music of Cape Verde is beautiful-'morna' music similar to the prado music of Portugal. If you like this, you might also like to search Cesaria Evora; also a great CV musician who sadly passed away Dec. 2011"
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MsBlabladada
"Depois de tanto tempo sem amor... Obrigada pela magia, pela ginga, pelo sentimento de ser feliz, colado a mim... Esse pok pok, tun, tun... Mexe tudo aqui dentro. Alegria vai no vento, festa no meu coração... Vem com sentimento em ser feliz. Coisa boa! Danke!"
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Google translate from Portuguese to English:
After so long without love ... Thank you for the magic, the ginga, the feeling of being happy, glued to me ... This pok pok, tun, tun ... Move all here. Joy goes in the wind, party in my heart ... Come with feeling happy. Good thing! Danke!
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moneylu777
"whats the name of this song?"
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Vania K.
"Ginga"
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2014
Bekimon
"I do not speak Cape Verdean Creole and Portuguese but this is just beautiful. I love Sara Tavares' music. It takes me somewhere. Does anybody have the complete lyrics and translation for 'Ginga'? I tried to Google it but nothing. Hugs from the Philippines. :)
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Danila do Rosario Fernandes Morais
"Ginga have the same meaning of "shake body""
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humanrace
"Shake your body, or move with me
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2015
Anthony Thorne
"I hear Haitian music, long live African music if you know what I mean. This woman is great ... Sara Tavares I do agree with Marc. I am African Caribbean. She would be great at the St. Lucia Jazz Festival."
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2015
Be Plush
"Why isn't Sara playing at a music jazz festival. Where is she now? This is a very talented artist and needs to have more concerts in the US. Sara you have a gorgeous voice. Where are you? Come perform in New York."
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O'time
"What is this music genre ?"
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Reply
MaRiNa KingsDaughter
"this music genre is called "Morna" and the Godmother of it is Cesaria Evora.. If you like this genre you will enjoy listening to Sara Mayra Andrade and Lura too... I looove Sara Tavares :)"
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Sunday, January 5, 2014
Video Tributes To Mozambican Born Soccer (Football) Player Eusebio
Edited by Azizi Powell
This post features excerpts from articles about the great Afro-Portuguese soccer (football) player Eusebio (January 25, 1942- January 5, 2014). Two video tributes to Eusebio are also showcased in this post.
This post is presented as a means of introducing people like me to Eusebio and also celebrating his life for those who had previously known about him.
All copyrights remain with their owners.
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INFORMATION ABOUT ESUEBIO
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eus%C3%A9bio
"Eusébio da Silva Ferreira, GCIH, GCM (Portuguese pronunciation: [ewˈzɛbiu ðɐ ˈsiɫvɐ fɨˈʁɐjɾɐ]; 25 January 1942 – 5 January 2014), commonly known simply as Eusébio, was a Mozambican-born Portuguese football forward. He is considered one of the greatest footballers of all time.[2][3] During his professional career, he scored 733 goals in 745 matches.[3]
He helped the Portuguese national team reach third place at the 1966 World Cup, being the top goalscorer of the tournament with nine goals (including four in one match against North Korea)[4] and received the Bronze Ball award. He won the Ballon d'Or award in 1965 and was runner-up in 1962 and 1966. He played for Benfica for 15 years out of his 22 as a footballer, thus being mainly associated with the Portuguese club, and is the team's all-time top scorer with 638 goals scored in 614 official games. There, he won eleven Primeira Liga titles, five Taça de Portugal titles, a European Cup (1961–62) and helped them reach three additional European Cup finals..."
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From http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/05/eusebio-dead_n_4544361.html
LISBON, Portugal (AP) — Eusebio, the Portuguese soccer star who was born into poverty in Africa but became an international sporting icon and was voted one of the 10 best players of all time, has died aged 71, his longtime club Benfica said....
Eusebio da Silva Ferreira became affectionately known as the Black Panther for his athletic prowess and clinical finishing that made him one of the world's top scorers during his heyday in the 1960s for Benfica and the Portuguese national team.
Perhaps his biggest accomplishment was to lead Portugal to a third-place finish at the 1966 World Cup, but his agility and speed made him one of Europe's most dangerous forwards for most of a career that lasted two decades.
He was awarded the Ballon d'Or in 1965 as Europe's player of the year and twice won the Golden Boot — in 1968 and 1973 — for being top scorer in Europe. According to football's world governing body FIFA, he scored 679 goals in a total of 678 official games...
In 1998, a panel of 100 experts gathered by FIFA named him in its International Football Hall of Fame as one of the sport's top 10 all-time greats.
"Look, there are only two black people on the list: me and Pele," Eusebio commented on the honor, referring to the Brazilian great who was a friend. "I regard that as a great responsibility because I am representing Africa and Portugal, my second homeland."
Eusebio was born in Maputo, the Mozambican capital, during the Second World War when the southeast African country was still a Portuguese colony. He came from a poor family but sparkled for his local team and was lured by Benfica to Portugal when he was 18.
Known for his unpretentious and easy manner as well as his courage and ball skills, his popularity in Portugal was such that in 1964, when Italian clubs offered to buy Eusebio for sums that were astronomical for the time, the country's then-dictator, Antonio Salazar, decreed that the player was a "national treasure" — meaning that he could not be sold abroad.
"A football genius and example of humility, an outstanding athlete and generous man, Eusebio was for all sports fans and for all Portuguese an example of professionalism, determination and devotion to the colors of the national jersey and of Benfica," Portuguese Prime Minister Pedro Passos Coelho said in a statement.
In a playing career unparalleled in Portugal, Eusebio was a cornerstone of the Benfica team that won back-to-back European titles in the early 1960s....
Eusebio then moved to North America where he spent the last years of his career playing for the Boston Minutemen, Toronto Metros, Las Vegas Quicksilver and Buffalo Stallions through 1980.
Eusebio stayed on at Benfica as an assistant coach after his retirement and traveled widely with the Portuguese national side as a paid "soccer ambassador.""...
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FEATURED EXAMPLES
Example #1: Eusébio | R.I.P Tribute | (1942-2014)
FootballTv776Published on Jan 5, 2014
Eusébio | R.I.P Tribute | 1942-2014 (Rip)
RIP Eusebio: A true legend for Portugal & Benfica
Descansa em Paz Pantera Negra
Homenagem a Eusébio mais conhecido por " Pantera Negra "
Eusébio - The Black Panther
"Sempre eterno Eusébio, descansa em paz" -- Cristiano Ronaldo
"Uma das grandes figuras do futebol português, uma das grandes figuras de Portugal, Eusébio é mais do que uma figura do futebol, Eusébio é Portugal". "[Se hoje jogasse]seria uma coisa assombrosa" -- José Mourinho
"Eusébio era como se fosse meu filho. Estou triste, triste, triste" - Mário Coluna, antigo jogador do Benfica e da selecção. [Google translate from Portuguese to English - "Eusebio was like my son I am sad, sad, sad." - Mario Column, former Benfica player and selection. "
"The king!! Grande perda para todos nos! O mais grande!! -- Luís Figo. [Great loss for all of us! The greatest!]
"RIP Eusebio (1942-2014). One of the greats." -- Xabi Alonso
"Estamos tristes por ter sabido que morreu Eusébio, lenda do Benfica. Ele era um jogador fantástico e um amigo do clube" -- Manchester United. [We are sad to (learn about the death of) Eusebio, Benfica legend. He was a fantastic player and a friend of the club".]
"De Eusébio vamos recordar o talento, o exemplo e o carácter de um homem que marcou o futebol português e se transformou numa referência do futebol mundial", SL Benfica ["(We remember Eusebio's) talent, the example and character of a man who marked the Portuguese football and became a reference in world football."]
«Morreu um dos maiores símbolos da modalidade. O maior jogador português da sua geração e sobretudo um grande ser humano e um exemplo de fair-play. É um dia triste para o futebol português» [ (One of the greatest symbols of the sport died). The greatest Portuguese player of his generation and above all a great human being and an example of fair play. It is a sad day for Portuguese football]
"Que triste notícia Deus. D.E.P Eusébio. Serás sempre recordado" -- Salvio. [What sad news God. (R.I.P) Eusebius. You'll always be remembered "]
"Triste muito triste. Descansa em paz King. És eterno !! RIP Eusébio" - Simão Sabrosa [Sad very sad. Rest in peace King. You are eternal]
Some of Eusébio (1942-2014) greatest moments with Portugal & SL Benfica.
Song: PIANOFORTE un uomo suona e RIFLETTE (TRIST ) A MAN PLAYING THE PIANO AND THINK ABOUT THE PAST (SAD)
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The words in parenthesis are my changes to the Google Translate words to standard American English.
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Example #2: Eusebio Tribute
wwemaddave, Uploaded on Jul 13, 2011
One of the greatest footballers ever
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Thanks to Eusebio da Silva Ferreira for his athletic accomplishments and for being a positive role model. Rest In Peace.
Thanks to the publishers of these videos on YouTube.
Thanks for visiting pancocojams.
Visitor comments are welcome.
This post features excerpts from articles about the great Afro-Portuguese soccer (football) player Eusebio (January 25, 1942- January 5, 2014). Two video tributes to Eusebio are also showcased in this post.
This post is presented as a means of introducing people like me to Eusebio and also celebrating his life for those who had previously known about him.
All copyrights remain with their owners.
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INFORMATION ABOUT ESUEBIO
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eus%C3%A9bio
"Eusébio da Silva Ferreira, GCIH, GCM (Portuguese pronunciation: [ewˈzɛbiu ðɐ ˈsiɫvɐ fɨˈʁɐjɾɐ]; 25 January 1942 – 5 January 2014), commonly known simply as Eusébio, was a Mozambican-born Portuguese football forward. He is considered one of the greatest footballers of all time.[2][3] During his professional career, he scored 733 goals in 745 matches.[3]
He helped the Portuguese national team reach third place at the 1966 World Cup, being the top goalscorer of the tournament with nine goals (including four in one match against North Korea)[4] and received the Bronze Ball award. He won the Ballon d'Or award in 1965 and was runner-up in 1962 and 1966. He played for Benfica for 15 years out of his 22 as a footballer, thus being mainly associated with the Portuguese club, and is the team's all-time top scorer with 638 goals scored in 614 official games. There, he won eleven Primeira Liga titles, five Taça de Portugal titles, a European Cup (1961–62) and helped them reach three additional European Cup finals..."
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From http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/05/eusebio-dead_n_4544361.html
LISBON, Portugal (AP) — Eusebio, the Portuguese soccer star who was born into poverty in Africa but became an international sporting icon and was voted one of the 10 best players of all time, has died aged 71, his longtime club Benfica said....
Eusebio da Silva Ferreira became affectionately known as the Black Panther for his athletic prowess and clinical finishing that made him one of the world's top scorers during his heyday in the 1960s for Benfica and the Portuguese national team.
Perhaps his biggest accomplishment was to lead Portugal to a third-place finish at the 1966 World Cup, but his agility and speed made him one of Europe's most dangerous forwards for most of a career that lasted two decades.
He was awarded the Ballon d'Or in 1965 as Europe's player of the year and twice won the Golden Boot — in 1968 and 1973 — for being top scorer in Europe. According to football's world governing body FIFA, he scored 679 goals in a total of 678 official games...
In 1998, a panel of 100 experts gathered by FIFA named him in its International Football Hall of Fame as one of the sport's top 10 all-time greats.
"Look, there are only two black people on the list: me and Pele," Eusebio commented on the honor, referring to the Brazilian great who was a friend. "I regard that as a great responsibility because I am representing Africa and Portugal, my second homeland."
Eusebio was born in Maputo, the Mozambican capital, during the Second World War when the southeast African country was still a Portuguese colony. He came from a poor family but sparkled for his local team and was lured by Benfica to Portugal when he was 18.
Known for his unpretentious and easy manner as well as his courage and ball skills, his popularity in Portugal was such that in 1964, when Italian clubs offered to buy Eusebio for sums that were astronomical for the time, the country's then-dictator, Antonio Salazar, decreed that the player was a "national treasure" — meaning that he could not be sold abroad.
"A football genius and example of humility, an outstanding athlete and generous man, Eusebio was for all sports fans and for all Portuguese an example of professionalism, determination and devotion to the colors of the national jersey and of Benfica," Portuguese Prime Minister Pedro Passos Coelho said in a statement.
In a playing career unparalleled in Portugal, Eusebio was a cornerstone of the Benfica team that won back-to-back European titles in the early 1960s....
Eusebio then moved to North America where he spent the last years of his career playing for the Boston Minutemen, Toronto Metros, Las Vegas Quicksilver and Buffalo Stallions through 1980.
Eusebio stayed on at Benfica as an assistant coach after his retirement and traveled widely with the Portuguese national side as a paid "soccer ambassador.""...
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FEATURED EXAMPLES
Example #1: Eusébio | R.I.P Tribute | (1942-2014)
FootballTv776Published on Jan 5, 2014
Eusébio | R.I.P Tribute | 1942-2014 (Rip)
RIP Eusebio: A true legend for Portugal & Benfica
Descansa em Paz Pantera Negra
Homenagem a Eusébio mais conhecido por " Pantera Negra "
Eusébio - The Black Panther
"Sempre eterno Eusébio, descansa em paz" -- Cristiano Ronaldo
"Uma das grandes figuras do futebol português, uma das grandes figuras de Portugal, Eusébio é mais do que uma figura do futebol, Eusébio é Portugal". "[Se hoje jogasse]seria uma coisa assombrosa" -- José Mourinho
"Eusébio era como se fosse meu filho. Estou triste, triste, triste" - Mário Coluna, antigo jogador do Benfica e da selecção. [Google translate from Portuguese to English - "Eusebio was like my son I am sad, sad, sad." - Mario Column, former Benfica player and selection. "
"The king!! Grande perda para todos nos! O mais grande!! -- Luís Figo. [Great loss for all of us! The greatest!]
"RIP Eusebio (1942-2014). One of the greats." -- Xabi Alonso
"Estamos tristes por ter sabido que morreu Eusébio, lenda do Benfica. Ele era um jogador fantástico e um amigo do clube" -- Manchester United. [We are sad to (learn about the death of) Eusebio, Benfica legend. He was a fantastic player and a friend of the club".]
"De Eusébio vamos recordar o talento, o exemplo e o carácter de um homem que marcou o futebol português e se transformou numa referência do futebol mundial", SL Benfica ["(We remember Eusebio's) talent, the example and character of a man who marked the Portuguese football and became a reference in world football."]
«Morreu um dos maiores símbolos da modalidade. O maior jogador português da sua geração e sobretudo um grande ser humano e um exemplo de fair-play. É um dia triste para o futebol português» [ (One of the greatest symbols of the sport died). The greatest Portuguese player of his generation and above all a great human being and an example of fair play. It is a sad day for Portuguese football]
"Que triste notícia Deus. D.E.P Eusébio. Serás sempre recordado" -- Salvio. [What sad news God. (R.I.P) Eusebius. You'll always be remembered "]
"Triste muito triste. Descansa em paz King. És eterno !! RIP Eusébio" - Simão Sabrosa [Sad very sad. Rest in peace King. You are eternal]
Some of Eusébio (1942-2014) greatest moments with Portugal & SL Benfica.
Song: PIANOFORTE un uomo suona e RIFLETTE (TRIST ) A MAN PLAYING THE PIANO AND THINK ABOUT THE PAST (SAD)
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The words in parenthesis are my changes to the Google Translate words to standard American English.
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Example #2: Eusebio Tribute
wwemaddave, Uploaded on Jul 13, 2011
One of the greatest footballers ever
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Thanks to Eusebio da Silva Ferreira for his athletic accomplishments and for being a positive role model. Rest In Peace.
Thanks to the publishers of these videos on YouTube.
Thanks for visiting pancocojams.
Visitor comments are welcome.
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