Francisco Xavier da Cruz

Other singers later sang his songs including Tito Paris in Ao vivo no B.Leza in 1998 and Nancy Vieira in 2003.

His name was baptized in a TACV plane with the registration D4-CBG, a Boeing 757-200 first received in 1996 from its factory in Seattle, it is considered as “the pride and joy of Cape Verde Airlines".

A live music club would be named after him in the Portuguese capital of Lisbon, it features different rhythms of Cape Verdean and African music especially kizomba, funaná and coladeira. The club was founded in 1994 by Tito Paris and directed by Alcides Gonçalves and sisters Madalena and Sofia Saudade and Silva, son of the great Cape Verdean singer Bana. It is located in Largo do Conde Barão, 50.

His style and his work which started to have success in the 1950s, marked the Cape Verdean music for the next twenty years. He composed dozens of mornas, among them Eclipse (Eclipse), Miss Perfumado, Resposta de Segredo Cu Mar and Lua Nha Testemunha, in which legend had it was composed in a hospital bed just days before his death on July 14, 1958.

In 1958, a year before his death, B. Leza was presented at a round with the Tuna Académica da Coimbra which took place in São Vicente Island. Among the attendees were Portuguese poet and political dissident Manuel Alegre and Portuguese writer, poet and novelist Fernando Assis Pacheco who tried to take him to Portugal to act.

Francisco Xavier da Cruz, also known as B. Leza or Beleza (earlier Portuguese form: Beléza) (December 3, 1905 – July 14, 1958) was a Cape Verdean writer, composer and singer of morna music..