With her mahogany-rich voice, impassioned performances and striking looks, the Portuguese fado singer Mariza has, in a few short years, become a reigning diva on the world music scene. She has blown ...

Listening to Portuguese fado singer Mariza, it's really hard not to be taken away by her passionate singing, charismatic stage presence, and sly sass. Yet, beneath her almost fragile and gentle ...

The music, traditionally performed in an intimate setting known as a "fado house," is guitar-based, and built around classical guitar and the notoriously difficult 12-string Portuguese guitar.

It happened in an instant. Mariza, one of the leading contemporary singers of the gloriously melancholic Portuguese music known as fado, has a powerful voice that could knock the Earth off its axis.

Fado music inevitably evokes that Portuguese feeling of nostalgia and loss known as saudade. Which means the city is in for a pretty melancholic week. The Portuguese genre’s biggest star, Mariza, ...

It was Portuguese star Mariza’s destiny to become a fado singer – drawing on deep feelings of life to tell stories in song at WOMADelaide. Portuguese fado singer Mariza, who will perform at ...

Singer Mariza has been the driving force in revitalizing the lamenting Portuguese musical genre fado, sometimes likened to the blues, a revival sparked by release of her first studio album in 2001.

Fado sensation and Latin GRAMMY Award winner Mariza performs at the Harris Theater for Music and Dance on Wednesday, October 23, 2013 at 7:30 pm, part of her 2013 self-titled world tour covering North ...

1 Full Cast Set for A BEAUTIFUL NOISE National Tour 2 Full Cast Set For North American Tour of SOME LIKE IT HOT 3 Full Cast Set For New North American Tour of DEAR EVAN HANSEN 4 Video: Hear ...

For Mariza -- a singer of songs from the old world -- it's a whole new world. After world tours, performances at the Olympics and the World Cup, and selling over a million albums, the singer put her ...

When we talk about fado, the one thing I don't want is to put it in a kind of museum. It needs to grow, it needs to walk further. Mariza is a 29-year-old singer of fado — the rich, emotionally ...

Singer Mariza has been the driving force in revitalizing the lamenting Portuguese musical genre fado, sometimes likened to the blues, a revival sparked by release of her first studio album in 2001.