To sing everything - sadness and happiness

by Petar PLAMENOV

11 April (Monday), Mariza, Portugal
National Palace of Culture
Hall 1, 19:30, 40-100 BGN
Address:
Sofia, 1 Bulgaria Sqr.
Phone: 02 916 63 69
Phone: 02 916 63 68 

 To sing everything - sadness and happiness - that makes at every concert the remarkable world-famous fado singer Mariza. The queen of fado music -deservedly so call it all is coming for the second time in Sofia. Her two previous albums: Fado Curvo and Terra, and don`t forget the platinum Fado Traditional these albums make Mariza in the artistic world-class celebrity. She is  is already more than fourteen years on stage and have five albums, and now  Mariza and now returned to Bulgaria to present his latest project.

The willowy singer with bleached blonde hair is at the vanguard of a new generation of young musicians taking fado into new terrain since the 1999 death of Amalia Rodrigues, who was widely regarded as the "Queen of Fado". Pulling in musical influences from around the world, Mariza is modernising fado, a melancholy musical form that grew out of the streets and tavernas of Lisbon in the 19th Century, in the way that virtuoso guitarist Paco de Lucia revolutionised Spain's flamenco music a few decades ago.

"Fado is an urban music and urban musics move and they walk at the same time as society moves and changes. If I didn't do that, I would not be making music and fado," she said in an interview.





Fado is the music that most aptly expresses the Portuguese tendency to "saudade", a bitter-sweet longing."Fado is the soul of the Portuguese people. It is a music based in the feelings of life, like sadness, happiness, melancholy, passion, lost love," said Mariza, whose family settled in Lisbon after leaving Mozambique in 1976. "Every single thing that makes up a human being, every single part of life you can sing in fado."

Mariza started singing fado at the age of five in the taverna her father ran in the Mouraria quarter of Lisbon and always returned to fado after trying different styles like jazz and soul later on.
Mariza gestures with her hands and sways across the whole stage in a way atypical of fado singers, who for generations gave statuesque performances in the cramped spaces of Lisbon's tavernas.

"It is my way of feeling music, it's my personality when I'm singing. If you look at Mick Jagger or Bono, they dance all the time," she said. "Tradition is tradition. I just try to be myself."

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