MARO Essentials
With a gorgeous, sweepingly ambitious self-titled debut, split into three volumes, MARO introduced herself as a prodigious talent journeying across emotionally uncharted spaces in jazzy, contemporary folk. The singer-songwriter, producer and multi-instrumentalist branched out to hook-laden electronic pop, trap and beyond in 2022’s <i>can you see me?</i> and represented Portugal at Eurovision, finding wider recognition with the melancholy bilingual ballad “Saudade, Saudade”. Going back to basics, she embraced a beguiling acoustic sensibility the following year, crystallised in the aching <i>hortelã</i>.