Birth Name: Marisa dos Reis Nunes
Place of Birth: Lourenço Marques, Portuguese Mozambique (now Maputo, Mozambique)
Date of Birth: December 16, 1973
Ethnicity:
*Portuguese, some Spanish and German (father)
*Portuguese, Mozambican (mother)
Family Background: Mariza is a Mozambican-Portuguese popular fado singer.
She was born in Lourenço Marques, Portuguese Mozambique (now Maputo, Mozambique), to José Brandão Nunes and Isabel Nunes.
José was born in Portugal and has Portuguese, Spanish and German ancestry. Isabel was born in Mozambique to a Portuguese father and a Mozambican mother. The family moved to Lisbon, Portugal when Mariza was 3 years old.
A picture of her parents can be seen here: http://images-cdn.impresa.pt/
Source: https://global.britannica.com/biography/Mariza
http://www.noticiasmagazine.pt/ (in Portuguese)
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