Mariza

Mariza

Born: December 16, 1973
in Lourenço Marques, Portuguese Mozambique
Mariza (Portuguese pronunciation: [mɐˈɾizɐ]),[1][2] born Marisa dos Reis Nunes (16 December 1973, Lourenço Marques, Portuguese Mozambique) is a popular fado singer. Mariza was born to a Portuguese father and a mother of partial African heritage.[3] At age three, her family moved to Metropolitan Portugal, and she was raised in Lisbon's historic quarters of Mouraria and Alfama. While very young she began singing in a wide variety of musical styles, including gospel, soul and jazz. Her father strongly encouraged her to adopt fado; he felt that participating in the traditional music would grant her greater acceptance in the Portuguese community. Mariza has sold over 1,000,000 records worldwide.[4] Music career

In 1999 fado's most famous and beloved interpreter, Amália Rodrigues died. In the public remembrance and mourning that followed, fado regained much of its previous popularity, and Mariza was asked to perform a broadcast tribute to Rodrigues' memory, which caused her friends to begin urging her to record an album of fado music. She did so, and in 2001 Fado em Mim was released. It sold an astounding 100,000 copies (4,000 copies of a fado disc would have been considered successful). After this the record company made the disc available worldwide, and sales eventually topped 140,000 copies. One of Mariza's hit songs, Transparente is a tribute to her African grandmother. Mariza sang the Portuguese national anthem at the 2002 FIFA World Cup of football, at the game which pitted the home team (South Korea) against Portugal. By the time Mariza's second album, Fado Curvo, was released in 2003, she was considered a member of the New Fado movement, with a voice reminiscent of traditional divas of the musical form such as Rodrigues. Her interpretations of fado standards brought her rapid international recognition, leading to her being the recipient, in March 2003, of BBC Radio 3's award for Best European Artist in World Music. Her British television debut was on Later with Jools Holland. For the Olympic Games of Athens 2004 she sang "A Thousand Years," as a duet with Sting. It was released on the official pop album of the Athens Olympics, Unity, on which fado is sung in English and Portuguese. Mariza performing in Cambridge, England in 2004 In 2004 Mariza won an EBBA Award. Every year the European Border Breakers Awards (EBBA) recognize the success of ten emerging artists or groups who reached audiences outside their own countries with their first internationally released album in the past year. Mariza's third album, Transparente, was recorded in Brazil and released in 2005. She performed at Live 8; she sang at the Eden Project in Cornwall, after which she has been invited to concerts and events worldwide to promote Portuguese culture, from Australia to Finland, the United States and Argentina. That album eventually reached Top Ten in countries which include The Netherlands, Spain and Finland. Mariza, who lives in the upmarket Alcântara dockside area of Lisbon, has received many awards from countries such as Denmark, Australia,Canada, Germany, UK, Guinea-Bissau and Equatorial Guinea.[citation needed] She has performed in venues such as New York's Carnegie Hall and Central Park, Walt Disney Concert Hall, Barbican, Hollywood Bowl, London's Royal Albert Hall, Union Chapel, Royal Festival Hall, Lisbon's Centro Cultural de Belém, Frankfurt's Alte Oper, Paris' Théâtre de la Ville, Madrid's Teatro Albéniz, Barcelona's Teatro Grec, X Cairo International Song Festival 2004, Centro Cultural de Macau, Moscow International House of Music, Toronto's Massey Hall, Sydney Opera House and the National Concert Hall in Dublin in February 2010. Her album released in 2007 Concerto em Lisboa received a Latin Grammy nomination for Best Folk Album. The following year, she again released an album, Terra which also was nominated for Best Folk Album at the Latin Grammy Awards. This album continued to mix a variety of genres, containing basic fado influenced by jazz, flamenco, Latin and African sounds. In 2010, Mariza was featured in the pilot episode of the PBS music series, Sound Tracks: Music Without Borders, singing the "global hit" -- "Minh' Alma." In 2010, Mariza released the album Fado Tradicional, returning to the roots of Fado, but also interpreting the music in Mariza's unique style.

Personal life The singer's first child was born on 6 July 2011, two months ahead of schedule. The child is the result of the relationship with businessman Anthony Ferreira.

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Movies for Mariza...

Title: Conta-me
Character: Convidada
Released: September 12, 2020
Type: TV
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Looking for Cesária Évora
Title: Looking for Cesária Évora
Character: self
Released: June 9, 2019
Type: Movie
Cesária Évora made the music of the Cape Verde islands famous throughout the world in the early 1990s. This film is an introduction to the culture, music and zest for life of the Cape Verdean people. On the occasion of the famous carnival of Mindelno, on the island of São Vicente where Cesaria Évora was born, this documentary offers a musical journey to discover "Sodade" and its legacy. Cesaria Évora, who died in 2011 after a twenty-year career, has allowed Cape Verde to shine throughout the world. The "barefoot diva", considered the queen of the morna has conquered the world and inspired many Cape Verdean artists. The small archipelago, which was for several centuries an important hub of the slave trade has promoted since then an important ethnic mix, which has played an important role in the evolution of local music.
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Alguém Como Eu
Title: Alguém Como Eu
Character: Fadista
Released: October 12, 2017
Type: Movie
Helen, 30 years-old, decides she is going to change the rest of her life. Her biggest mistake, she asks God for some precious help.
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Title: Got Talent Portugal
Character: Judge
Released: January 18, 2015
Type: TV
The portuguese adaption of UK's original talent show Britain's Got Talent, a unique format that gives anonymous people, individual or in a group, the chance to show their artistic gifts in the most diverse areas with no age restriction.
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Alto Bairro
Title: Alto Bairro
Released: December 15, 2014
Type: Movie
In Lisbon 1950, John, 13, decides to invade the neighborhood of prostitutes, nobility and sailors, starting a new stage in his life. Today this neighborhood is reflected in a scattered public debate centered on its night life.
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Fado
Title: Fado
Character: Herself
Released: June 24, 2012
Type: Movie
A documentary project that aims to capture the uncapturable. Explain what cannot be explained. How does one decipher fado? How is it conceived? They say one is born a fado singer, but how do you define what one feels? Does it emanate from within? Many Eastern masters believe that knowledge can only be gained in person. Could it be that through technology we can capture the timeless presence of a master and feel their knowledge? This is a documentary that tries to explain what fado is, to those who know it and those who don't, from the inner point of view of the 'maker' of fado. From the composer to the guitarist, including those who sing it and those who study it. And so, through these testimonies, we can explain the invisible. The inner side of Fado.
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Fado - Património da Humanidade
Title: Fado - Património da Humanidade
Character: Artista Convidada
Released: December 2, 2011
Type: Movie
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Title: Alta Definição
Character: Self
Released: September 12, 2009
Type: TV
In Alta Definição, Daniel Oliveira interviews one guest every week with an intimate approach.
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Fados
Title: Fados
Character: Self
Released: December 31, 2007
Type: Movie
A series of musical performances showcasing the diverse facets of fado, a musical genre from Lisbon.
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Mariza and the Story of Fado
Title: Mariza and the Story of Fado
Character: Herself
Released: September 1, 2007
Type: Movie
There is blues in the United States, Flamenco in Spain, tango in Argentina, chanson in France - and Portugal, too, has its own musical style, fado, and its biggest artist is Mariza. Internationally acclaimed Portuguese-Mozambican singer Mariza stars in this compelling documentary film that traces the history of fado back to its origins in the streets of Lisbon during the early 19th century.
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Mariza Concerto Em Lisboa
Title: Mariza Concerto Em Lisboa
Character: Herself
Released: January 1, 2005
Type: Movie
Mariza is known as a thrilling live performer, and it seems clear that she responds to the audience as powerfully as they respond to her. The live album medium seems ideal for such an artist, and with Concerto em Lisboa, Mariza delivers what is undoubtedly the finest album of her still-young (though internationally renowned) career. The accompanying DVD is both full of fascinating historical information about fado music, as well as an inside look at Mariza herself, who comes across as humble, kind and incredibly down-to-earth.
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Mariza: Live in London
Title: Mariza: Live in London
Character: Herself
Released: September 7, 2004
Type: Movie
The new queen of the Portuguese folk music known as fado shines in the impressive Mariza Live in London, a 2003 concert recorded at the Union Chapel in London. The twentysomething Lisbon resident has been hailed as the successor to fado legend Amália Rodrigues; now, after two well-received CDs, comes Mariza's first filmed concert performance, and it is stunning. Mariza is backed primarily by acoustic guitar, acoustic bass guitar, and "Portuguese guitar," a 12-string instrument that looks something like a lute and sounds a bit like a Greek bouzouki; there is some piano as well, and Guy Barker's muted trumpet provides "O Deserto" with a pronounced jazzy feel. But the singer is the main attraction here, and the power and passion of Mariza's delivery on "Barco Negro" and nearly all the others in the 16-song set, including more upbeat, celebratory numbers like "Oica La o Senhor Vinho" (the introductions are in English, but the tunes are all in Portuguese) are undeniable.
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Portugal Séc. XXI: As Cores Do Som
Title: Portugal Séc. XXI: As Cores Do Som
Released: January 1, 2003
Type: Movie