It's a rare chance to have the difficult-to-define Fado style described by someone who grew up with it: Q: How did you start singing? A: I started to listen to and sing Fado at around 5 years old in ...

Mariza displayed intense vocal control Sunday night in her performance of fado music, a Portuguese genre of sorrow. Portuguese singer Mariza transformed the Winspear Opera House into the most intimate ...

What started as a particularly chilly October night ended as a night filled with magic, nostalgia and ‘saudade.’ On Tuesday, Oct. 8, the Portuguese New Fado superstar Mariza graced UMass Amherst’s ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mariza at Jones Hall with Luís Guerreiro on Portuguese guitar (right) and Phelipe Ferreira on acoustic guitar (Cary Darling) It ...

Some of the greatest music ever conceived began as folk art and developed extraordinary levels of sophistication, without losing its folkloric core. Jazz, blues and gospel, for instance, were created ...

When it comes to expressiveness, passion, technique, and sheer beauty of voice, probably there is no female singer today to equal Portuguese singer Mariza. It's rare to see a singer today who invests ...

"Fado em mim", editado pela holandesa World Connection, deu a conhecer em 2002 uma fadista que rapidamente ocupou a ribalta internacional na área das músicas do mundo. O álbum valeu-lhe o Prémio da ...

A biografia de uma grande diva, Mariza, a fadista com maior projecção internacional na actualidade e considerada por muitos uma das maiores estrelas representativas da ?world music? do início do ...

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.