Mariza

Mariza Nunes (born December 16, 1973 in Mozambique) is a fado singer/songwriter on the World Connection label. She moved to Portugal when she was three, and was raised in one of the most traditional quarters of Lisbon, Mouraria - Alfama, w

Mariza Nunes (born December 16, 1973 in Mozambique) is a fado singer/songwriter on the World Connection label. She moved to Portugal when she was three, and was raised in one of the most traditional quarters of Lisbon, Mouraria - Alfama, 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.