Description
Warner Music: Mariza — Mundo (Audio CD)
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Product Details:
- Product Type: Audio CD
- Brand / Label: Warner Music (Warner Music Portugal)
- Artist: Mariza
- Title: Mundo
- Producer: Javier Limón
- Release Year: 2015
- UPC: 825646038862
- Catalog Number: 2564603886
- Genre: World, Fado
- Condition: New / Factory Sealed
Product Features
- Format: CD
- Discs: 1
- Tracks: 14
- Language: Portuguese
- Produced by: Javier Limón
- Made in the EU
Overview
Mundo is one of Mariza's most personal records, the album where Portugal's reigning queen of fado opens her sound out to the wider world while keeping her roots firmly in Lisbon. Produced by the acclaimed Spanish musician Javier Limón, it balances the raw emotion of traditional fado with a warmer, more contemporary palette.
Across fourteen songs, Mariza moves from aching laments to brighter, almost folk-pop moments. Tracks like "Rio de Mágoa," the classic "Maldição" (Fado Cravo) and the tender "Meu Amor Pequenino" show off her extraordinary range — that smoky, powerful voice equally at home in heartbreak and joy.
The songwriting draws on a who's-who of Portuguese talent, with contributions from Jorge Fernando, Pedro da Silva Martins, Miguel Gameiro and others, alongside Limón's own "Alma." The arrangements give the guitarra portuguesa room to shine while adding subtle new textures.
For fado lovers and newcomers alike, Mundo is a gorgeous, emotionally rich album from one of world music's great voices — proof of why Mariza has carried fado to concert halls across the globe.
Interesting Facts
- Mariza is the most internationally successful fado singer of her generation, often credited with bringing the genre to a new global audience.
- Mundo means "World" in Portuguese — fitting for an album that broadens fado's horizons.
- The album was produced by Javier Limón, a Latin Grammy–winning Spanish producer known for his work across flamenco and world music.
- "Maldição" is a classic of the fado repertoire, here subtitled "Fado Cravo."
- Several of Portugal's most respected songwriters contributed material, including Jorge Fernando, a longtime collaborator of Mariza's.
- Mariza was born in Mozambique and raised in the historic Mouraria district of Lisbon, the cradle of fado.
Track Listing
- Rio de Mágoa
- Melhor de Mim
- Alma
- Saudade Solta
- Sem Ti
- Maldição (Fado Cravo)
- Padoce de Céu Azul
- Caprichosa
- Paixão
- Anda o Sol na Minha Rua
- Adeus
- Missangas
- Sombra
- Meu Amor Pequenino
Publishers
Released 2015 (℗ 2015) by Warner Music Portugal (catalog 2564603886), under exclusive licence from Taberna da Música, Lda. Produced by Javier Limón. Made in the EU.
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