YEREVAN. – The concert world famous Cesaria Evora, nicknamed the “barefoot diva”, scheduled for September 29 is cancelled, Yerevan Perspectives project manager Sona Hovhannisyan told Armenian News-NEWS.am.

She added that singer’s management sent an official letter saying Evora is seriously ill and her career is over. Armenia was the first in the list of countries where Evora was scheduled to give concerts in the near future, she added.

Armenian News-NEWS.am will later inform whether there will be another concert instead or how the tickets will be returned.

Evora postponed all her upcoming concerts and decided to retire from music.

Cesaria Evora was born in 1941 in Cape Verde. She has been singing since she was 17 but managed to record her first album at 43.