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talktooloose) wrote2009-02-18 12:35 pm
talktooloose) wrote2009-02-18 12:35 pm
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Ó Gente Da Minha Terra
We went to Massey Hall on Friday to see Mariza, the amazing Portuguese fado singer.
She's tall! Taller than any of the guys in her band. Wow.
She and her two guitarists unplugged towards the end of the show and did one number acoustic out into the hall. I saw Elvis Costello do the same thing there and it gave me chills both times. That's how singers performed at Massey when it was built. That's how people saw the Swedish singing star Jenny Lind when she performed there a century ago. Many of them had never even heard a scratchy record of her, but they came to see the what the fuss was all about. And they all had to get real quiet and focussed, as we did for Mariza on that one number.
This was a kind of random post. Here she is singing on Letterman in 2007. She must have scared middle-America:
She's tall! Taller than any of the guys in her band. Wow.
She and her two guitarists unplugged towards the end of the show and did one number acoustic out into the hall. I saw Elvis Costello do the same thing there and it gave me chills both times. That's how singers performed at Massey when it was built. That's how people saw the Swedish singing star Jenny Lind when she performed there a century ago. Many of them had never even heard a scratchy record of her, but they came to see the what the fuss was all about. And they all had to get real quiet and focussed, as we did for Mariza on that one number.
This was a kind of random post. Here she is singing on Letterman in 2007. She must have scared middle-America: