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Ottawa Citizen, Here's the world for ya >>
One of the most eagerly anticipated performers in the world music series is the artist simply known as Mariza. Acclaimed for the drama, power and emotional range of her voice, this 30-year-old is being
celebrated as the greatest interpreter of fado, the traditional, blues- like folk music from her native Portugal, since Amalia Rodrigues. Critics trumpet her vocal bravura, her controlled intensity.
Mariza is no jazz musician, but she's too busy introducing fado to a global audience to worry about labels. She's also working hard to
overthrow the common misconception of fado as a melancholy art of
longing and regret.
"This is completely wrong," she says while on tour in Spain. "We are a very happy people. Even in a traditional taberna in Lisbon, we
sing, we clap together, we drink red wine."
Mariza could be speaking for any of the world music
artists appearing at this year's jazz festival when she tries to explain her
music. "It is a little bit difficult to define, what is fado. It's more
than music. It's a way of being in life. You know when you make a tattoo in your skin? I have a tattoo in my soul, and the name is fado." 07/18/03
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