Mariza (born 1976 in Mozambique) is a fado singer/songwriter on the World Connection label. She moved to Portugal when she was a child, and was raised in one of the most traditional quarters of Lisbon, Mouraria, where she learned how to sing fado.
For the Olympic Games of Athens 2004 she made a duet with Sting in the song A thousand years, released in the official pop album of the Athens Olympics Unity, where fado is sang in English and Portuguese.
As of April 2005, Mariza is working in Brazil for a new album.
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