MARO is the professional name of Portuguese composer, singer, multi-instrumentalist, and producer Mariana Secca. Her velvety, arid alto frames carefully crafted songs sung primarily in Portuguese and English. In 2018, she released her 22-track, eponymously titled debut in three volumes; she released the duo set Maro & Manel with Manuel Rocha, and It's OK, a solo collection of nine electro-acoustic folk songs in English, the same year. She spent much of 2019 with Jacob Collier and appeared on his Djesse, Vol. 2. In 2021 she made several guest appearances on recordings by Gerald...