www.diariodigital.sapo.pt, 30 de Abril de 2009
Lenny Kravitz convidou. Mariza aceitou. Na próxima terça-feira, a fadista junta-se ao rocker num dueto improvável.
O concerto de Kravitz está marcado para o Pavilhão Atlântico e tem como ponto de partida a comemoração dos 20 anos da edição do primeiro disco «Let Love Rule». O preço dos bilhetes varia entre os 30 e os 40 euros.
Mariza em Concerto no Allgarve'09
www.guiadacidade.pt, 24 de Abril de 2009
A fadista Mariza é um dos nomes já confirmados para a edição deste ano do programa de animação turística Allgarve '09. A fadista Mariza sobe ao palco, com um convidado surpresa, na zona ribeirinha de Vila Real de Santo António, a 14 de Agosto.
Com quatro álbuns de originais editados, Mariza tornou-se na voz que mais tem popularizado a alma portuguesa em todo o mundo. Este concerto está integrado na programação Allgarve Music, que trará outros artistas nacionais e internacionais consagrados à região algarvia durante o Verão. O Allgarve, que já vai na sua terceira edição, aposta em eventos musicais, desportivos, culturais, gastronómicos e de animação social, como forma de complementar a tradicional oferta de sol e praia, combater a sazonalidade e reforçar a atractividade e a animação do principal destino turístico português. Um concerto a não perder.
A fadista Mariza é um dos nomes já confirmados para a edição deste ano do programa de animação turística Allgarve '09. A fadista Mariza sobe ao palco, com um convidado surpresa, na zona ribeirinha de Vila Real de Santo António, a 14 de Agosto.
Com quatro álbuns de originais editados, Mariza tornou-se na voz que mais tem popularizado a alma portuguesa em todo o mundo. Este concerto está integrado na programação Allgarve Music, que trará outros artistas nacionais e internacionais consagrados à região algarvia durante o Verão. O Allgarve, que já vai na sua terceira edição, aposta em eventos musicais, desportivos, culturais, gastronómicos e de animação social, como forma de complementar a tradicional oferta de sol e praia, combater a sazonalidade e reforçar a atractividade e a animação do principal destino turístico português. Um concerto a não perder.
Mariza nomeada para os Globos de Ouro 2009
de Mário Rui Vieira
www.blitz.aeiou.pt, 24 de Abril de 2009
Mariza, Rui Reininho, Deolinda, Buraka Som Sistema, Da Weasel e Rita Redshoes são alguns dos nomeados.
Já são conhecidos os nomeados, divididos em três categorias, para os Globos de Ouro deste ano. Os Deolinda são os únicos a conseguir duas nomeações: melhor grupo e melhor revelação do ano. Entre os outros nomeados, encontram-se Mariza, Camané, Per7ume, Buraka Som Sistema e Tony Carreira.
Veja todos os nomeados abaixo e fique atento à XIV Gala dos prémios nacionais - realiza-se a 17 de Maio no Coliseu dos Recreios, em Lisboa, e vai contar com apresentação de Bárbara Guimarães (transmissão em directo na SIC) - que distinguem também protagonistas portugueses na área do cinema, teatro, moda e desporto.
Melhor Intérprete Individual
Camané
Mariza
Rui Reininho
Tony Carreira
Melhor Grupo
Buraka Som Sistema
Da Weasel
Deolinda
Mesa
Melhor Revelação do Ano
Classificados
Deolinda
Per7ume
Rita Redshoes
www.blitz.aeiou.pt, 24 de Abril de 2009
Mariza, Rui Reininho, Deolinda, Buraka Som Sistema, Da Weasel e Rita Redshoes são alguns dos nomeados.
Já são conhecidos os nomeados, divididos em três categorias, para os Globos de Ouro deste ano. Os Deolinda são os únicos a conseguir duas nomeações: melhor grupo e melhor revelação do ano. Entre os outros nomeados, encontram-se Mariza, Camané, Per7ume, Buraka Som Sistema e Tony Carreira.
Veja todos os nomeados abaixo e fique atento à XIV Gala dos prémios nacionais - realiza-se a 17 de Maio no Coliseu dos Recreios, em Lisboa, e vai contar com apresentação de Bárbara Guimarães (transmissão em directo na SIC) - que distinguem também protagonistas portugueses na área do cinema, teatro, moda e desporto.
Melhor Intérprete Individual
Camané
Mariza
Rui Reininho
Tony Carreira
Melhor Grupo
Buraka Som Sistema
Da Weasel
Deolinda
Mesa
Melhor Revelação do Ano
Classificados
Deolinda
Per7ume
Rita Redshoes
Buika convida... Mariza
www.guiadacidade.pt, 24 de Abril de 2009
O jazz que pisca o olho aos ritmos latino-africanos? Os ritmos latino-africanos que piscam o olho ao jazz? Nada disto interessa quando se ouve Concha Buika.
Tudo parece fundir-se na voz forte desta espanhola, de origem guineense, que cedo começa a explorar as suas capacidades musicais. Inicia a sua carreira a compor e interpretar êxitos house e a colaborar em várias bandas sonoras – entre elas, a do espectáculo "Ombra" do grupo catalão La Fura dels Baus. Em 2005 lança o álbum de estreia, homónimo, um ensaio estilístico de flamenco contemporâneo e jazz. A consagração surge em 2007 com o álbum "Mi Niña Lola", um passo em frente na consolidação do seu estilo único, onde a sua voz fumarenta passeia sem pudores e, sem nunca se perder, por estilos tão diversos como o jazz, o soul, o flamenco e o hip hop, sem nunca esquecer as suas raízes africanas.
Para este espectáculo do Cascais COOLJAZZ 09, Buika convida outro nome ímpar... Mariza !!! Não perca, dia 19 de Julho no Parque Marechal Carmona.
O jazz que pisca o olho aos ritmos latino-africanos? Os ritmos latino-africanos que piscam o olho ao jazz? Nada disto interessa quando se ouve Concha Buika.
Tudo parece fundir-se na voz forte desta espanhola, de origem guineense, que cedo começa a explorar as suas capacidades musicais. Inicia a sua carreira a compor e interpretar êxitos house e a colaborar em várias bandas sonoras – entre elas, a do espectáculo "Ombra" do grupo catalão La Fura dels Baus. Em 2005 lança o álbum de estreia, homónimo, um ensaio estilístico de flamenco contemporâneo e jazz. A consagração surge em 2007 com o álbum "Mi Niña Lola", um passo em frente na consolidação do seu estilo único, onde a sua voz fumarenta passeia sem pudores e, sem nunca se perder, por estilos tão diversos como o jazz, o soul, o flamenco e o hip hop, sem nunca esquecer as suas raízes africanas.
Para este espectáculo do Cascais COOLJAZZ 09, Buika convida outro nome ímpar... Mariza !!! Não perca, dia 19 de Julho no Parque Marechal Carmona.
Portuguese star Mariza making fado a new fad
by Tony Montague
www.straight.com, April 16, 2009
Charismatic Mariza has sparked a stylish revival of Portugal’s national music back home, and now gives it a global twist.
After Portuguese fado star Mariza made her debut album independently, she went around Lisbon looking for a label to sign and promote her. It seems amazing now that, despite her extraordinarily passionate and powerful voice, she was turned down by record-company suits for being out of fashion—and a tad too miserable.
“The response was ‘Sorry, but fado doesn’t sell. Nobody wants to listen to this music. It’s a little bit down,’ that type of thing,” says Mariza, reached on a tour bus somewhere between Missouri and Wisconsin. “For 20 years they didn’t have a successful fado album. Now everyone wants to have fado artists.”
Much of that turnaround is due to the platinum-haired diva. Since releasing Fado em Mim (Fado in Me) in 2001, Mariza has not only helped spark a revival of Portugal’s national music back home, she’s brought fado to millions of new listeners around the world who are captivated by the bittersweet beauty of the songs and her soulful, playful voice. Mariza has performed to sold-out houses in London’s Royal Albert Hall, Sydney’s Opera House, and New York’s Carnegie Hall; she performed a duet with Sting at the Athens Olympics in 2004; and she received a Grammy nomination last year for her fourth studio album, Terra (Earth).
The international plaudits are deserved. Mariza—who comes to the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts this Saturday (April 18) with a five-piece band—is a charismatic artist, with a rare ability to get under the skin of her songs. She’s found a balance between maintaining respect for Lisbon’s fado heritage and taking it further, creating extraordinary new hybrids with Brazilian, Cape Verdean, flamenco, Cuban, and other world-music traditions.
Mariza’s natural elegance and flair for wearing gorgeous gowns have made her a fashion icon. Yet the 35-year-old diva is also a scholar who’s researched fado for many years. While she doesn’t write songs herself, she carefully selects lyrics and music for her repertoire. “I’m always researching,” says Mariza with a laugh. “I’m always working; I don’t stop.”
One of the latest fruits of this labour is the impassioned “Recurso” on Terra. “The words are by David Mourão-Ferreira, who was one of the most important Portuguese poets,” says Mariza. “I found them, written by hand and never published, in the Museu do Fado in Lisbon. I asked a friend of mine to write music for it. A great deal of my work is done at home—my living room has 80 or 90 books of poetry, papers, and things I’ve been looking at.”
Terra features a number of tradition-based fado songs, not all of which are dark-hued or down-tempo. On the jaunty “Rosa Branca”, Mariza sings of a woman with a rose who dances so much that the petals scatter, ending with the question “If you love roses so much, why don’t you love me?” On the gently melancholic “Al-fama”, she evokes the historical Lisbon neighbourhood that’s one of the birthplaces of fado—a maze of old streets, twisting alleyways, and passages sweeping down steeply to the Tagus River. Its lyrics translate (according to sleeve notes) as: “Closed in its disenchantment/Alfama’s scent is of yearning/Alfama’s scent is not fado/Its scent is of people, of solitude/of a saddened silence/That knows sorrow with its bread.”
Mariza’s tastes and talents as a contemporary fadista are channelled beautifully by Terra’s Spanish producer, Javier Limón, who helmed the 2004 world-music hit Lagrimas Negras with Cuban pianist Bebo Valdés and flamenco singer El Cigala. “Javier was one of the people I was thinking of working with for the album, and when we met in Madrid over dinner and talked about music, we really connected. So I invited him to Lisboa and we went to some of the fado houses, very traditional places, a little bit underground. He’s also a great guitarist and played with some of the fado musicians, and I felt like ‘This is the person.’ ”
Limón plays on several of Terra’s tracks, including the flamenco-suffused “Pequeñas Verdades”, which he wrote for Mariza. He also paired her voice with that of rising Afro-Spanish star Concha Buika, one of several guests on the album. On “Fronteira”, legendary piano player Chucho Valdés gives the traditional Portuguese folk rhythms a sprightly Afro-Cuban flavour. Brazil’s Ivan Lins wrote and plays piano on the languid and jazzy “As Guitarras”.
For the magnificent morna “Beijo de Saudade” (“Kiss of Yearning”), Mariza is joined by husky-voiced Cape Verdean veteran Tito Paris. “The song is by one of Cape Verde’s greatest poets, B. Leza, who moved to Lisbon from the islands [off the west coast of Africa]. He wrote that song because he was very ill, and knew he wouldn’t return to his homeland. It’s very moving.”
Following seven years of hard touring for Mariza, Terra was seven months in the making and drew from her journeys. “My intention was to show to the people who have supported me what I saw as an artist, a person, and a woman,” she explains. “As you travel you feel the heartbeat of a country. So many different cultures, sounds, musicians, rhythms influenced me to do the album. But at the same time, I didn’t forget my roots. So it’s like having my feet in Portugal while at the same time travelling the world.”
www.straight.com, April 16, 2009
Charismatic Mariza has sparked a stylish revival of Portugal’s national music back home, and now gives it a global twist.
After Portuguese fado star Mariza made her debut album independently, she went around Lisbon looking for a label to sign and promote her. It seems amazing now that, despite her extraordinarily passionate and powerful voice, she was turned down by record-company suits for being out of fashion—and a tad too miserable.
“The response was ‘Sorry, but fado doesn’t sell. Nobody wants to listen to this music. It’s a little bit down,’ that type of thing,” says Mariza, reached on a tour bus somewhere between Missouri and Wisconsin. “For 20 years they didn’t have a successful fado album. Now everyone wants to have fado artists.”
Much of that turnaround is due to the platinum-haired diva. Since releasing Fado em Mim (Fado in Me) in 2001, Mariza has not only helped spark a revival of Portugal’s national music back home, she’s brought fado to millions of new listeners around the world who are captivated by the bittersweet beauty of the songs and her soulful, playful voice. Mariza has performed to sold-out houses in London’s Royal Albert Hall, Sydney’s Opera House, and New York’s Carnegie Hall; she performed a duet with Sting at the Athens Olympics in 2004; and she received a Grammy nomination last year for her fourth studio album, Terra (Earth).
The international plaudits are deserved. Mariza—who comes to the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts this Saturday (April 18) with a five-piece band—is a charismatic artist, with a rare ability to get under the skin of her songs. She’s found a balance between maintaining respect for Lisbon’s fado heritage and taking it further, creating extraordinary new hybrids with Brazilian, Cape Verdean, flamenco, Cuban, and other world-music traditions.
Mariza’s natural elegance and flair for wearing gorgeous gowns have made her a fashion icon. Yet the 35-year-old diva is also a scholar who’s researched fado for many years. While she doesn’t write songs herself, she carefully selects lyrics and music for her repertoire. “I’m always researching,” says Mariza with a laugh. “I’m always working; I don’t stop.”
One of the latest fruits of this labour is the impassioned “Recurso” on Terra. “The words are by David Mourão-Ferreira, who was one of the most important Portuguese poets,” says Mariza. “I found them, written by hand and never published, in the Museu do Fado in Lisbon. I asked a friend of mine to write music for it. A great deal of my work is done at home—my living room has 80 or 90 books of poetry, papers, and things I’ve been looking at.”
Terra features a number of tradition-based fado songs, not all of which are dark-hued or down-tempo. On the jaunty “Rosa Branca”, Mariza sings of a woman with a rose who dances so much that the petals scatter, ending with the question “If you love roses so much, why don’t you love me?” On the gently melancholic “Al-fama”, she evokes the historical Lisbon neighbourhood that’s one of the birthplaces of fado—a maze of old streets, twisting alleyways, and passages sweeping down steeply to the Tagus River. Its lyrics translate (according to sleeve notes) as: “Closed in its disenchantment/Alfama’s scent is of yearning/Alfama’s scent is not fado/Its scent is of people, of solitude/of a saddened silence/That knows sorrow with its bread.”
Mariza’s tastes and talents as a contemporary fadista are channelled beautifully by Terra’s Spanish producer, Javier Limón, who helmed the 2004 world-music hit Lagrimas Negras with Cuban pianist Bebo Valdés and flamenco singer El Cigala. “Javier was one of the people I was thinking of working with for the album, and when we met in Madrid over dinner and talked about music, we really connected. So I invited him to Lisboa and we went to some of the fado houses, very traditional places, a little bit underground. He’s also a great guitarist and played with some of the fado musicians, and I felt like ‘This is the person.’ ”
Limón plays on several of Terra’s tracks, including the flamenco-suffused “Pequeñas Verdades”, which he wrote for Mariza. He also paired her voice with that of rising Afro-Spanish star Concha Buika, one of several guests on the album. On “Fronteira”, legendary piano player Chucho Valdés gives the traditional Portuguese folk rhythms a sprightly Afro-Cuban flavour. Brazil’s Ivan Lins wrote and plays piano on the languid and jazzy “As Guitarras”.
For the magnificent morna “Beijo de Saudade” (“Kiss of Yearning”), Mariza is joined by husky-voiced Cape Verdean veteran Tito Paris. “The song is by one of Cape Verde’s greatest poets, B. Leza, who moved to Lisbon from the islands [off the west coast of Africa]. He wrote that song because he was very ill, and knew he wouldn’t return to his homeland. It’s very moving.”
Following seven years of hard touring for Mariza, Terra was seven months in the making and drew from her journeys. “My intention was to show to the people who have supported me what I saw as an artist, a person, and a woman,” she explains. “As you travel you feel the heartbeat of a country. So many different cultures, sounds, musicians, rhythms influenced me to do the album. But at the same time, I didn’t forget my roots. So it’s like having my feet in Portugal while at the same time travelling the world.”
Mariza Debuts At Benaroya Hall
www.huliq.com, April 15, 2009
The world’s most beloved ambassador of fado, Mariza will make her Northwest debut at Benaroya Hall on Friday, April 17, at 8 p.m. Mariza, known for her heartrending interpretations of the fado repertoire, will sing songs of sorrow and lost love, accompanied by traditional Portuguese instruments.
She will be joined onstage by Portuguese guitarist Angelo Freire, viola de fado player Diogo Clemente, bassist Marino de Freitas, percussionist Vicky and pianist and trumpeter Simon James.
The Toronto Star calls Mariza “one of the world’s great singers.” A two-time Latin Grammy–nominated singer, Mariza is rapidly bringing fado — the “blues of Portugal” — to the world stage.
She has garnered numerous national awards for her work, including Person of the Year from the Foreign Press Association of Portugal; election as a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador; the “International Award” from the Amalia Rodrigues Foundation (2005); the Order of Henry the Navigator, bestowed by President Jorge Sampaio (2006); and the prestigious Medaille de Vermeil from the Paris Academy of Arts, Sciences and Letters, for her “relevant services to arts and culture.” 2008–2009 season highlights include a three-month North American tour.
Mariza has recorded five albums, all of which have gone platinum: Fado em Mim (2002); Fado Curvo (2003); Transparente (2005); Concerto em Lisboa (2007) and, most recently, Terra (2008). She also appears on two DVDs, Live in London (2005) and Concerto em Lisboa (2006).
For Terra, she was joined by a variety of musicians from around the world: British guitarist Dominic Miller; Brazilian pianist Ivan Lins and Cuban pianists Chucho Valdes and Ivan “Melon” Lewis; Spanish flamenco guitarist Javier Limon; and percussionist Pirana. Recording awards include the Gold Medal from the Portugal Tourist board and the Deutschen Schallplattenkritik Award for Best Ethnic Folk and World Music album (2003); Best European Artist by BBC Radio 3 (2003, 2005, 2006); Portugal’s Golden Globe for Best Individual Performer (2006); and the Silver Bear for Best Soundtrack at the 56th Berlin Film Festival. She has also earned two Latin Grammy nominations.
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Reportagem Magazine EUA Contacto
www.rtp.pt
Tournée Americana de Mariza
6 Abril 2009
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Reportagem Magazine EUA Contacto
www.rtp.pt
Tournée Americana de Mariza
6 Abril 2009
Massey Hall
BEIJO DE SAUDADE
(B.leza)
Mariza e Tito Paris no Massey Hall
Toronto, Canada / 13 Fevereiro 2009
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