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Far-Flung Postcards is a weekly series in which NPR’s international team shares moments from their lives and work around the world.<\/em><\/p>\n

Cape Verde feels like a country where there are more musicians per capita than most anywhere else. Music is interwoven with the sounds of daily life in this West African island nation. In the heart of the capital Praia, a city of under 200,000 residents, singers belt out morna ballads from restaurants \u2014 morna <\/a>being Cape Verde’s traditional music, with African and Portuguese influences. In the capital’s outlying neighborhoods, older men are often sitting on sidewalks and strumming their guitars. The government even put the face of the country’s most revered musician and singer \u2014 Ces\u00e1ria\u00a0\u00c9vora, who popularized morna internationally in the 1990s \u2014 on the country’s currency (the 2,000 escudo note).<\/p>\n