Portuguese singer and multi-instrumentalist MARO performs in March at the Coliseums in Lisbon and Porto, as part of an international tour, which starts in Berlin and ends in Los Angeles.
According to information available on MARO’s official page on social media, the European and North American tour So Much Has Changedwhich begins March 5 in Berlin and ends April 30 in Los Angeles, includes concerts at the Coliseu dos Recreios in Lisbon, on March 28, and at the Coliseu do Porto, on March 28.
Tickets for both dates will go on sale from 10am on Friday, according to promoter Everything is New, in a statement.
So Much Has Changed is the title of the singer’s new album, to be released on January 27th and whose first single will be released on Thursday.
According to the promoter, with the new album, “a celebration of a brighter and more positive sound, MARO begins a new chapter, taking its show in full band format to audiences around the world in 2026”.
MARO is the stage name of Mariana Secca, a singer and multi-instrumentalist from Lisbon who graduated from the conservatory and studied at the Berklee school, in Boston, in the United States.
In 2018, he released his first album, the same name, divided into three volumes and which condenses, chronologically, everything he composed from his first childhood songs until 2017, the year in which he finished his studies in the United States.
In an interview with the Lusa agency in 2018, when he edited the third part of his debut album, he stated that he wanted to have complete freedom to move around different musical genres, from electronic music to R&B and pop, and revealed that he owes his desire to be an artist to Milton Nascimento.
“He’s one of the most obvious reasons why I’m singing,” he said.
Having the Internet as its main ally and anchor in publicity, MARO made dozens of videos available on the YouTube portal with musicians who passed through Berkeley, with whom he recorded his debut album, and also recordings made in recent years, of distance duets with artists such as Antonio Sanchez, Eric Clapton, Mayra Andrade, Maria Gadú, Luísa Sobral, Rui Veloso, Ivan Lins, Pablo Alborán, António Zambujo, Silvia Pérez Cruz and Dino D’Santiago.
In 2022, MARO won the Song Festival with the theme Saudade, Saudadein which she was accompanied live by four more Portuguese singers, having represented Portugal in the 66th Eurovision Festival, which took place in Turin, Italy.
Com Longing, longingPortugal reached ninth place, a position it had already obtained in two other competitions.
MARO’s latest album of originals, mintpublished in 2023, won him the José Afonso Prize 2024.
Mostly sung in Portuguese and composed of ten songs, mint is a guitar and vocals album, co-produced by MARO with two guitarist friends, Darío Barroso and Pau Figueres.
After having joined Jacob Collier’s band on the tour, Djesse World Tour of the musician, has already opened concerts for artists such as Jessie J, Gipsy Kings, Charlotte Cardin, The Paper Kites e Shawn Mendes.