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.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... With her mahogany-rich voice, impassioned performances and striking looks, the Portuguese fado singer Mariza has, in a few short years, become a reigning ...

Mariza, who is of Portuguese and Mozambican descent, isn't only interested in mining the past and evoking the spirit of the late Amália Rodrigues who's considered the greatest fadista of all time.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Portuguese fado singer Mariza rarely let her smile dim when she performed at the Athenaeum Theatre on Tuesday as part of the World Music Festival. Her easygoing rapport with the audience and her ...

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, ...

A happy, duly transfixed Lobero Theatre crowd was temporarily and attitudinally flown to Lisbon (a k a Lisboa) last week, thanks to the transporting power of the fado queen known simply as 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 ...

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 ...