What is "sodade"

Sodade is a Capeverdean slow coladeira song written in the 1950s by Armando Zeferino Soares, and best popularized by Cesaria Evora on her 1992 album Miss Perfumado. The name is the Capeverdean variant of the Portuguese saudade.

The authorship of the song was contested between the composers Armando Zeferino Soares, notably by the duo Amândio Cabral and Luís Morais, until a court ruled on December 2006 that Soares was the author.