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.

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 ...

Even if you don't understand a word of Portuguese, the enormity of Mariza's gift is immediately and intoxicatingly evident upon first hearing. Armed with an alluring voice and arresting charismatic ...

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.

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, ...

Fado, the soulful music of Portugal, has been likened to the blues, to tango, to flamenco, to the rebetika of Greece. And the similarities are valid, to the extent that each genre represents a music ...

2 WAITRESS Will Embark on 10th Anniversary North American Tour This Fall 3 MENOPAUSE THE MUSICAL Launches 25th Anniversary North American Tour With a career spanning more than two decades and 30 ...

Mariza was named a best new restaurant by Esquire magazine. Esquire magazine's food critic John Mariani selected Bywater's Mariza (2900 Chartres St.) one of the 20 best new restaurants in America.

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 ...