Sounds of Portugal: An Evening of Fado with Mariza

In less than twelve years, Mariza has risen from a well hidden local phenomenon, known only to a small circle of admirers in Lisbon, to one of the most widely acclaimed stars of the World Music circuit. Image by Carlos Ramos

7:30 p.m. on April 20, 2019

The Saab Center for Portuguese Studies at UMass Lowell and the Lowell Memorial Auditorium are proud to present international music star Mariza on Saturday, April 20 at 7:30 p.m at the Lowell Memorial Auditorium.

This event is part of a yearlong celebration of the Saab Center’s fifth anniversary and will mark the first time partnering with the Lowell Memorial Auditorium.

Proceeds from Sounds of Portugal: An Evening of Fado with Mariza will support activities like our student study abroad programs and campus and community cultural events.

About Mariza

In less than twelve years, Mariza has risen from a well hidden local phenomenon, known only to a small circle of admirers in Lisbon, to one of the most widely acclaimed stars of the World Music circuit. Image by Carlos Ramos

Read her full biography on Mariza's website

In less than twelve years, Mariza has risen from a well hidden local phenomenon, known only to a small circle of admirers in Lisbon, to one of the most widely acclaimed stars of the World Music circuit.

Fado em mim Album

It all started with her first CD, Fado em Mim, published in 2001, which quickly led to a number of highly successful international presentations - the Québec Summer Festival, in which she received the event’s First Award (Most Outstanding Performance), New York’s Central Park, the Hollywood Bowl, the Royal Festival Hall, the Womad Festival - and ultimately earned her BBC Radio 3’s award for Best European Artist in the area of World Music. Fado em Mim was an exciting first album, showing a young singer with a rich, vibrant voice and a strong artistic personality. She still sang several hits of Amália’s repertory but her approach to the heritage of the great Fado diva was already so personal that she could easily cast away any suggestion of mere imitation. And within her original material Ó Gente da minha Terra, by the young composer Tiago Machado, soon became a major hit in its own right....

Conclusion

No Portuguese artist since Amália Rodrigues has experienced such a triumphant international career, accumulating success after success on the most prestigious world stages, raving reviews from the most demanding music critics worldwide and countless international awards and distinctions. As usual, her musical partners are simply only the best: Jacques Morelenbaum and John Mauceri, José Merced and Miguel Poveda, Gilberto Gil and Ivan Lins, Lenny Kravitz and Sting, Cesária Évora and Tito Paris, Carlos do Carmo and Rui Veloso. An her repertoire, while firmly rooted in classical and contemporary Fado, has grown to include occasional Cape Verdean mornas, Rhythm and Blues classics or any other themes she holds dear to her heart.

In the past twelve years, Mariza has long passed the stage of a mere exotic episode in the World Music scene, ready to be replaced by whatever new colourful phenomenon appears in another geographic corner of the recording industry’s market. She proved to be a major international artist, strongly original and immensely gifted, from whom much is yet to be expected in the future. The young girl from Mozambique, raised in the popular Lisbon neighbourhood of Mouraria, has mastered the roots of her musical culture and developed into an universal artist who is able to open herself to the world without ever losing her heartfelt sense of Portuguese identity. And Portuguese audiences are the first to acknowledge this triumph and pay her back with unlimited love and gratitude.

RUI VIEIRA NERY
Instituto de Etnomusicologia – Centro de Estudos de Música e Dança

THANK YOU TO OUR SPONSORS!

A very special thank you to all of our sponsors. Proceeds from Sounds of Portugal: An evening of Fado with Mariza will support efforts like study abroad opportunities for students and cultural programming for the campus and community.

Sponsors listed are as of March 31, 2019.

This event proudly sponsored by:

  • Bettencourt Dd Corporation, which also operates under the name Dunkin' Donuts, is located in Dracut, Massachusetts. This organization primarily operates in the Doughnuts business / industry within the Food Stores sector. This organization has been operating for approximately 25 years.

    Gilda and Fatima Bettencourt

  • BMP: The Law Office of Brad M Pacheco, LLC

  • DRM Solutions

  • Enterprise Bank

  • Feel Portugal in the USA e-magazine

  • Grande Festa do Concelho da Praia da Vitoria 2019 logo celebrating 20th anniversary. A celebration of all things Praia da Vitória, an annual reunion and promotional event.

    Grande Festa do Concelho da Praia da Vitoria

  • Lowell Memorial Auditorium

  • Lowell Tooth Docs

  • Luso-American Financial

  • Massachusetts Alliance of Portuguese Speakers

  • Meehan Educational Foundation for educational excellence

    Marty Meehan Educational Foundation

  • McDonough Funeral Home

  • Mello Law Offices, Attorneys and Counselors at Law, Falamos Português

    Mello Law Offices

  • MFS Investment Management

  • Middlesex Community College

  • Naveo Credit Union

  • New England Home Performance Kings logo. New England Gutter Kings, Inc. cleans, repairs and installs seamless gutters for residential and commercial customers.

    New England Home Performance Kings

  • Oakdale Liquors

  • OJornal.com the Portuguese Jornal

  • The Portuguese Times

  • The Saab Family Foundation

  • S and F Concrete

  • Silva Brothers Construction

  • Trinity EMS

  • The UMass Foundation

  • Washington Savings Bank

  • WJFD 97.3 FM

Fado Questions?

For questions please call the Saab Center at 978-934-5199.