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Voz d'Amor is the ninth album by Cesária Évora. The album reached number 3 in Poland, the first Cape Verdean and West African artist to reach the Polish Top 10 charts and number 2 in the Billboard 200 World Albums Chart. The album sold about 400,000 copies. In Switzerland, the album reached number 57 below the Top 50 charts in October and remained in the Swiss charts for six weeks. The album won the Grammy Award for Best Contemporary World Music Album in 2004, the first to win from Cape Verde or a part of West Africa. The sixth song "Monte Cara" relates to a mountain west of Mindelo and the eleventh song of the album "Pomba" features the lyrics "Subi Somada, a bô di diante, a mi ditras" which relates to Assomada's feature being in the upper parts. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voz_d'Amor) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...)