Terra is the fourth studio album by the Portuguese

Portugal

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 fado

Fado

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 singer, Mariza

Mariza

Mariza is the stage name of a popular fado singer. She was born Marisa dos Reis Nunes on 16 December 1973 in Lourenço Marques, Mozambique. At the time, Mozambique was known as the Portuguese Overseas Province of Mozambique....

. At the Latin Grammy Awards

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, it was nominated for both Best Folk Album and Best Producer. Contributions from Cape Veredean

Cape Verde

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 singer Tito Paris

Tito Paris

Tito Paris, is a singer and musician . He has a long career behind him and is among the most popular musicians from Cape Verde successfully blending the sound of Cape Verdean traditional mornas, coladeiras and funanas with the moderns sounds of Portugal and the rest of the world...

, Argentine

Argentina

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 guitarist Dominic Miller

Dominic Miller

Dominic Miller is an Argentine-English guitarist who toured and recorded with World Party and King Swamp, worked on Phil Collins' solo album ...But Seriously and played guitar on every Sting album and tour since 1990...

, and Spanish

Spain

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 singer Concha Buika

Concha Buika

Concha Buika is a Spanish singer. Her album Niña de Fuego was nominated for the 2008 Latin Grammy Award for Album of the Year.Buika's family is originally from Equatorial Guinea...

 give Terra a jazz

Jazz

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, African

Music of Africa

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, and Latin

Latin American music

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 influence. Also included at the end of the album is a cover of Charlie Chaplin's

Charlie Chaplin

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 famous ballad, "Smile".

Track listing

1. "Ja me deixou" (Now It's Left to Me)
2. "Minh alma" (My Soul)
3. "Rosa branca" (White Rose)
4. "Recurso" (Recourse)
5. "Beijo de saudade" (Kiss of Yearning)
6. "Vozes do mar" (Voices from the Sea)
7. "Fronteira" (Frontier)
8. "Alfama"
9. "Tasco da mouraria" (Tavern in Mouraria)
10. "Alma de vento" (Soul of Wind)
11. "Se eu mandasse nas palavras" (If Words Could Do My Bidding)
12. "As guitarras" (Portuguese Guitars)
13. "Pequenas verdades" (Little Truths)
14. "Morada aberra" (Open House)
15. "Smile"

Personnel

• Vocals: Mariza
  Mariza
  Mariza is the stage name of a popular fado singer. She was born Marisa dos Reis Nunes on 16 December 1973 in Lourenço Marques, Mozambique. At the time, Mozambique was known as the Portuguese Overseas Province of Mozambique....
  
  , Concha Buika
  Concha Buika
  Concha Buika is a Spanish singer. Her album Niña de Fuego was nominated for the 2008 Latin Grammy Award for Album of the Year.Buika's family is originally from Equatorial Guinea...
  
  , Tito Paris
  Tito Paris
  Tito Paris, is a singer and musician . He has a long career behind him and is among the most popular musicians from Cape Verde successfully blending the sound of Cape Verdean traditional mornas, coladeiras and funanas with the moderns sounds of Portugal and the rest of the world...
  
  
• Acoustic Guitar: Bernardo Couto, Diogo Clemente, Dominic Miller
  Dominic Miller
  Dominic Miller is an Argentine-English guitarist who toured and recorded with World Party and King Swamp, worked on Phil Collins' solo album ...But Seriously and played guitar on every Sting album and tour since 1990...
  
  
• Flamenco Guitar: Javier Limón
• Recorder: Melissa Nanni
• Trumpet: Carlos Sarduy
• Piano: Ivan "Melon" Lewis, Chucho Miller
• Acoustic Bass: Marino De Freitas
• Double Bass: Dany Noel
• Percussion: Pirana

External links

• Mariza.com Mariza's Official Website
• Rolling Stone Review
• Washington Post Review
• BBC Review
• [ AMG Review]

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