Singer-songwriter MARO will perform in Porto in September and in Braga and Lisbon in October, as part of a tour of Portugal and Spain, during which she will present songs from her forthcoming album.
According to promoters Last Tour, in a statement released today, MARO will perform on September 30 in Porto, at Teatro Sá da Bandeira, on October 2 in Braga, at Altice Fórum Braga, and on October 7 and 8 in Lisbon, at Teatro Tivoli.
In Portugal, the tour also includes the N2Festival in Chaves on August 3.
Spain welcomes MARO in November and December.
The Portuguese singer-songwriter performs on November 10 in Barcelona at Paral-lel 62, on November 12 in Madrid at Teatro Eslava, on November 14 in Valencia at the Ram Club and on December 1 in Bilbao at the Guggenheim Museum.
This tour includes the participation of Catalan guitarists Darío Barroso and Pau Figueres, who recorded “Mint” with MARO, released in April last year.
“Mint” is MARO’s seventh and latest album.
Mainly sung in Portuguese and featuring ten songs, “hortelã” is a guitar and vocal album, co-produced by MARO with two guitarist friends, Darío Barroso and Pau Figueres.
MARO is the stage name of Mariana Secca, a singer and multi-instrumentalist originally from Lisbon who studied at the Berklee School in Boston, USA.
In 2018, he released his debut album of the same name, divided into three volumes, which chronologically condenses everything MARO has composed from his earliest childhood songs to 2017, the year he completed his studies in the United States.
With the Internet as his main ally and anchor point for making himself known, MARO has made available on the YouTube portal dozens of videos with musicians who passed through Berklee, with whom he recorded his first album, as well as recordings made over the last two years of long-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 2018, in an interview with Lusa news agency to mark the release of the third part of his debut album, he said he wanted to have total freedom to evolve in different musical genres, from electronic to r&b to pop, and revealed that he owed his desire to be an artist to Milton Nascimento.
“He’s one of the most obvious reasons I sing,” he declared.
In 2022, MARO won the Song Festival with the song “Saudade, Saudade”, in which she was accompanied live by four other Portuguese singers, and represented Portugal at the 66th Eurovision Song Contest, held in Turin, Italy.
With “Saudade, saudade”, Portugal came ninth, a position it had already achieved in two other competitions.