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 Changed”, which starts on March 5th in Berlin and ends on April 30th in Los Angeles, includes concerts at the Coliseu dos Recreios in Lisbon, on March 28th, and at the Coliseu do Porto, on March 28th. 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 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.
With 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 Berklee, with whom he recorded his debut album, and also recordings made in recent 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 2022, MARO won the Song Festival with the theme “Saudade, Saudade”, in which she was accompanied live by four other Portuguese singers, having represented Portugal at the 66th Eurovision Festival, which took place in Turin, Italy.
With “Saudade, saudade”, Portugal reached ninth place, a position it had already obtained in two other competitions. MARO’s most recent album of originals, “hortelã”, released in 2023, earned him the José Afonso 2024 Prize. Mostly sung in Portuguese and composed of ten songs, “hortelã” is a guitar and vocals album, co-produced by MARO with two guitarist friends, Darío Barroso and Pau Figueres. After being part of Jacob Collier’s band on the musician’s “Djesse World Tour”, he has opened concerts for artists such as Jessie J, Gipsy Kings, Charlotte Cardin, The Paper Kites and Shawn Mendes.