By Monday, Evora will have left the west African island nation of Cape Verde for Paris, said her producer's company, Joao da Silva.

Evora was initially set to tour France, Switzerland, Belgium, Poland, Romania, Greece, Spain and Italy between June and December, but her doctor asked for the tour to be cancelled due to the singer's exhaustion.

It was not immediately clear whether the stops on the tour would be resumed.

The famed singer of 'mornas', Cape Verde's bluesy musical style, had a stroke in March while on tour in Australia and was treated in France, before returning to the stage the following month. -- AFP