MARO performs in March in Lisbon and Porto as part of an international tour

According to information available on MARO's official social media page, the European and North American tour "So Much Has Changed", which begins on March 5 in Berlin and ends on 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 10:00 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, bringing its full-band show to audiences around the world in 2026."

MARO is the stage name of Mariana Secca, a singer and multi-instrumentalist from Lisbon who attended the conservatory and studied at the Berklee school in Boston, United States.

In 2018, he released his first album, self-titled, divided into three volumes and which chronologically condenses everything he composed from his first childhood songs until 2017, the year he finished his studies in the United States.

In an interview with Lusa news agency in 2018, when he released the third part of his debut album, he stated that he wanted complete freedom to move between different musical genres, from electronic music to R&B and pop, and revealed that he owes Milton Nascimento his desire to be an artist.

"He's one of the most obvious reasons why I'm singing," he said.

With the Internet as its main ally and anchor in its promotion, MARO made available on the YouTube portal dozens of videos with musicians who passed through Berklee, with whom it recorded its debut album, and also recordings made in recent years, of remote 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 Festival da Canção with the song "Saudade, Saudade", in which she was accompanied live by four other Portuguese singers, having represented Portugal at the 66th Eurovision Song Contest, which took place in Turin, Italy.

With "Saudade, saudade", Portugal reached ninth place, a position it had already achieved in two other competitions.

MARO's latest original album, "hortelã", released in 2023, won him the 2024 José Afonso Prize.

Mostly sung in Portuguese and composed of ten tracks, "hortelã" is a guitar and voice album, co-produced by MARO with two guitarist friends, Darío Barroso and Pau Figueres.

After joining 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.

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