Marisa dos Reis Nunes known as Mariza was born at 16 December 1973 and is a popular fadista. She was born in Mozambique, but raised in Lisbon's historic quarters of Mouraria and Alfama with her Portuguese father and Mozambican mother. While very young she began singing in a wide variety of musical styles, including gospel, soul and jazz, but her father strongly encouraged her to adopt fado.
Her first album, Fado em mim, was released in 2001. It sold an astounding 100,000 copies when 4,000 copies of a fado disc would have been considered successful in such a small country. After this the record company made the disc available worldwide, and sales eventually topped 140,000 copies. After this success she released 4 more studio albums, 2 live albums and 3 DVD.
In this video she sings “Ó Gente da Minha Terra”, a poem by Amália Rodrigues and music by Tiago Machado.
Check out her official web page for more information and find out where you
can see her. Maybe she is going to your home town.
From Portugal,
with love
with love
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