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Global Music Pulse: New Face of Fado
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Billboard, Global Music Pulse: New Face of Fado >>
In less than one year, Mariza, the new face of the melancholic Portuguese music genre known as fado, has risen from obscurity to become one of the hottest properties in world music. Her second album, Fado Curvo, will be released May 26. EMI/Virgin plans to use a June 3 concert in Paris as a Europe-wide media showcase for its new artist. The label signed the 29-year-old singer in February, after she won the European category at the BBC Radio 3 Awards for World Music with her debut album, Fado Em Mim. That record, released on Dutch label World Connection, was based on material associated with the late Amalia Rodrigues, who for half a century was the universally acknowledged "queen of fado." By contrast, many of the songs on Fado Curvo are new, written by leading Portuguese contemporary poets. "I started thinking it would be better to create my fados my own way, with more original material," Mariza says. "I don't want to put fado in a museum." Carlos Maria Trindade of top Portuguese band Mandredeus produced the album. Mariza will tour Europe throughout the summer. 05/24/03
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