Yet Mariza (born Marisa dos Reis Nunes), 51, has taken her music from Portugal to the world, collaborating with Sting on the track "A Thousand Years," a 2004 song released in conjunction with the ...

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 ...

There's no singer who embodies the sound of fado more completely than Mariza. The Portuguese musician was born in the same neighborhood that, 150 years earlier, gave birth to the dramatic, expressive, ...

World Music Institute will present Mariza on November 15 in the Peter Jay Sharp Building at BAM Howard Gilman Opera House. Born in Mozambique and raised in Lisbon's working-class district of Mouraria, ...

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.