Amazon.com, one of the world's leading online music retailers released this week a list of the 100 Greatest World Music Albums of All Time, featuring two CAMI artists in the top 30! The alluring Cape Verdean singer, Sara Tavares' album, Balancê, released in 2006 ranks in at number 19. Portuguese fado queen, Mariza's 2001 award winning album Fado em Mim takes the number 27 spot.

"A Portuguese singer of Cape Verdean descent, Sara Tavares makes gentle, sensual music that reflects the cosmopolitanism of Lisbon. Casually skipping between Portuguese, English, and various African tongues, Sara mixes the lulling dance rhythms of Cape Verde, Angola, and Brazil, as well as American R & B." - The Chicago Reader

"Fado is the traditional music of Portugal - proud, austere and deeply melancholic. Mariza is the music's biggest star for a reason: She sings it not as musty nostalgia but as exuberant twenty-first-century pop, with a low, mesmerizing alto that's as commanding as any pop singer today...remaking fado's ancient sadness into a majestic modern sound." - Rolling Stone