Singer Mariza has been the driving force in revitalizing the lamenting Portuguese musical genre fado, sometimes likened to the blues, a revival sparked by release of her first studio album in 2001.

Mariza opened early this year on the bottom floor of the Rice Mill Lofts, an upscale apartment complex that is also a flashpoint in so many debates over the pros and cons of Bywater's gentrification.

Chef Ian Schnoebelen and Laurie Casebonne opened Mariza, a refined but comforting ode to Italian regional cooking, five years ago. On Dec. 31, the couple will served their last meal at the restaurant ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mariza at Jones Hall with Luís Guerreiro on Portuguese guitar (right) and Phelipe Ferreira on acoustic guitar (Cary Darling) It ...

Few performers predominate a genre as Amália Rodrigues has with fado, from her rise in the 1930s and even beyond her death in 1999. Now, today’s leading ambassador of the mournful Portuguese genre, ...

Listening to Portuguese fado singer Mariza, it's really hard not to be taken away by her passionate singing, charismatic stage presence, and sly sass. Yet, beneath her almost fragile and gentle ...

A friend of mine insists that you have to be Portuguese to understand fado. In one sense she's right—fado is intimately associated with poetry, and you pretty much have to be a native speaker to grasp ...

World Music Institute will present Mariza on November 15 in the Peter Jay Sharp Building at BAM Howard Gilman Opera House. Born in Mozambique and raised in Lisbon's working-class district of Mouraria, ...

It happened in an instant. Mariza, one of the leading contemporary singers of the gloriously melancholic Portuguese music known as fado, has a powerful voice that could knock the Earth off its axis.