World Music's Superstars
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June is Black Music Month. But the stars of 'black music' are not just Americans. They hail from all across the African Diaspora. What they all have in common is an ability to make music that transcends geography and language to touch your soul.

Carmen Souza (Cape Verde)

Souza is the latest in a line of Cape Verdean singers who acknowledge Cesaria Evoria as their fountainhead. Sweet voiced, her offerings also owe a lot to the jazz of Ella Fitzgerald, Miles Davis and Horace Silver. On her latest recording, Protegid, she does a cover of the latter's classic 'Song For My Father,' replete with Creole lyrics.