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.. Da Cruz was born in Mindelo on the island of São Vicente.
B. Leza has innovated in the morna genre and frequently used the passage cords (known as the Brazilian halftone, the jargon used by Cape Verdean musicians).
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.
[3] 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.
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".