Fado em Mim is the debut studio album of Portuguese fado singer Mariza, released in April 2002 by Dutch label World Connection. Later on a special collectors edition was released containing an additional CD with 8 live tracks recorded at the WOMAD 2002.
Mariza Fado em mim
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Mariza born in Mozambique moved to Portugal at a very young age. She lived her childhood in Mouraria, one of the most typical neighbourhoods of Lisabon, where she discovered and sang the fado with the old local fado singer's. Her first proffesional steps in music took her to the Portugese casino's and clubs where she sang jazz, gospel, soul and brazilian music, but also the occasional fado song with great success. In 1998 she was invited by Raúl Solnado, a famous Portugese actor, to perform in Canada and where she discovered her love and dedication for the fado. Her interpretative qualities came to light to the Portugese audience, press and several important fado personalities, when she was invited to participate in a tribute to the greatest diva of fado, Amália Rodrigues, at the Coliseums of Lisabon and Porto and broadcasted live at national Portuges television. Since that performance she has been a regular guest in many TV and radio shows in Portugal and performed very successfully in Holland, Belgium, France, Spain, Italy, Brazil and Morocco. Her impact in Portugal has been enormous in a short time. She received the award
Charles Floyd conducts the Los Angeles Philharmonic in a world music program featuring the celebrated Portuguese fado singer Mariza on Friday, April 2, at 8 p.m. Designed to expand the artist's repertoire by using an orchestral accompaniment, the performance at Walt Disney Concert Hall is the only program in the Los Angeles Philharmonic's 2003/2004 World Music series to feature the Philharmonic accompanying an artist.
Portuguese fado singer MARIZA gained international popularity with the release of her debut CD Fado Em Mim. Fado is Portugal's equivalent to the American blues, the Argentinean tango, or Spanish flamenco. Mariza has toured Europe and has built a sizable following through her powerful stage presence and voice. Hailed as the heir to the "Fadista" legend Amália Rodriques, Mariza received the prestigious "Best Fado Voice 2000" award in Portugal. She was awarded the "PERSONALIDADE DE ANO-2003" (PERSONALITY OF THE YEAR 2003), one of the most prestigious awards in her native Portugal, which is awarded by the Association of International Press of Portugal (A.I.E.P.).
Talk about humble beginnings: Portuguese superstar chanteuse Mariza began singing fado, the traditional music of her home country, in Lisbon when she was 5, encouraged by her father. But she downplays any notion that she was born to perform.
Portuguese fado vocalist Mariza has risen from a local phenomenon, known only to a small circle of admirers in Lisbon, to one of the most widely acclaimed stars of world music. It all started with her first album, Fado em Mim, released in 2001, which quickly led to a number of high-profile international concerts and ultimately earned her BBC Radio 3's award for Best European Artist in the World Music category. No Portuguese artist since Amalia Rodrigues has experienced such a triumphant international career, with countless fans, rave reviews, and numerous awards and distinctions. Mariza has mastered the roots of her musical career and developed into a universal artist who opens herself to the world without ever losing her heartfelt sense of Portuguese identity.
Mariza is a Portuguese Mozambican singer who nourished her soul in the Mouraria town of Lisbon. Receiving the Portuguese State's title of the artist who best represents the country's culture abroad, Mariza was declared the "Voice of Fado" in 1999 by the foundation named after the legendary fado singer Amalia Rodrigues.
After her first album, "Fado Em Mim" ("Fado in Me"), which was released in 2001, reached platinum record sales four times in Portugal, Mariza started to attract attention on international platforms and won first place in the category of "Best Performance" at the Quebec Summer Festival in 2002. In the same year, she gave sold-out concerts in New York's Central Park, the Womad Festival, London's South Bank and Lisbon. Mariza, who became the new fado star of the new generation with the "Best Artist" award at the BBC Europe World Music Awards in 2003, says that she finds herself through fado.
Mariza gained worldwide fame with her bestselling fado album of all time Fado em Mim." Then, she won the German Critics Awards 2001-2003, the European Breakers Award 2003, Portugal's Personality of the Year Award 2003, and Coup de Coeur Mirror Award-Canada 2003 awards. In her second album, "Fado Curvo," she described fado as music that is not flat like life but has passion, love, and ups and downs.
The number one representative of fado with the sales of more than 1 million albums all over the world, Mariza introduced another album bearing her own name in 2018. In the same year, she released the duet "Pideme" with Vanesa Martin and the singles "Quem Me Dara" and "Trigueirinha."
Like many other fadistas, Mariza goes by just one name. She was born in Mozambique, but her family moved to Portugal when she was very young. She says singing was part of everyday life, and remembers going to fado houses when she was very young.
The word "fado" is most literally translated as "fate." As for the American blues, with which fado is often compared, the style's name gives a rough but incomplete notion of its subjects and character. The songs are often but not invariably plaintive or nostalgic in tone, and they focus on demonstrative and intense lyrical expression rather than on catchy hooks. The voice is typically accompanied by one or more stringed instruments, almost always including the 12-stringed Portuguese guitar, whose pear-shaped body gives it a more focused and lute-like sound than the American 12-string.
The genre began as tavern (or taverna) music in poor city neighborhoods, but it began to attract aristocratic taste in the 19th century. The traditional repertoire comprised a stock selection of tunes, passed down orally and applied to poetry of the singer's choice. By the beginning of the 20th century, fado was recognized as an important part of Portugal's cultural heritage.
The Lisbon strain of fado, of which Mariza is an exponent, took its modern form with the internationally famous work of Amália Rodrigues beginning in the 1940s. This flowering unfortunately took place under Portugal's authoritarian Estado Novo regime, which censored the lyrics and eventually appropriated a sanitized version of fado as a nationalist emblem. When the regime fell in the mid '70s, the style had taken on the stink of fascism for many young people, and it largely fell out of fashion outside its native tavern environment.
It has fallen to Mariza's generation to rehabilitate and revitalize the form. She explained in a 2006 CNN interview that during the period of censorship, fado "always had a second meaning...revealing feelings and sentiments that couldn't be expressed in an open way." The pre-dictatorship fado tradition actually had progressive associations, and Amália herself snuck lyrics by left-wing poets past the censors.
Mariza is well suited to reclaim a vision of fado transcending narrow jingoism. Born in Mozambique to an ethnically Portuguese father and a black African mother, she moved at age 3 to the Mouraria district of Lisbon, one of the city's oldest regions and one often claimed as the birthplace of fado. Her parents ran a fado tavern where Mariza soon began learning the traditional style. Though she also sang jazz and soul music in her youth, she was devoted to fado by the start of her professional career in late '90s.
She quickly attracted international attention. In 2002, the Boston Phoenix called her the "gold star" of a new fado movement arising in the wake of Amália Rodrigues' death in 1999. Even then, Mariza was no slavish traditionalist; her first recording unconventionally uses piano accompaniment on some numbers and features two original compositions.
Ora: o que é o fado? É um tipo de canções tristes do Portugal antigo, continua o texto do Observer. Mas Mariza modernizou-o e, sem perder o tom negro das vestes, soube introduzir cor e novidade estética. O que acontece igualmente na música; daí, traduzir uma nova intimidade, dada pelo registo harmonioso da Orquestra Sinfónica de Lisboa, dirigida pelo brasileiro Jacques Morelenbaum. E o convite a mais músicos para a acompanharem no espectáculo de Londres, como o cabo-verdiano Tito Paris e o fadista português Carlos do Carmo. 2ff7e9595c
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