sentences:  When she was seven years old her father, Justino da Cruz Évora, who was a part-time musician, died, and at the age of ten she was placed in an orphanage, as her mother Dona Joana could not raise all six children.At the age of 16, she was persuaded by a friend to sing in a sailors' tavern.She grew up at the house in Mindelo which other singers used from the 1940s to the 1970s, at 35 Rua de Moeda.