Music enthusiasts are invited to experience an extraordinary night as the globally celebrated fado singer Mariza comes to the New Jersey Performing Arts Center on Sunday, November 1, 2026, at 6:00 p.m ...

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.

Fado is the music of Portugal, a haunting, emotional style intimately bound up with that tiny country's history and seagoing soul. Yet on her latest recording, Mariza, fado's greatest contemporary ...