Brazilian pop icon Marisa Monte will perform at NJPAC Friday night. (Sachyn Mital)
More interested in creating beauty than shaking booty, Brazil’s Marisa Monte has stayed true to her artistic ambitions and her love of tradition as she stayed atop the charts — a pop star who doesn’t act like a pop star.
More than 30 years after her first album, Monte, 55, will perform for the first time in New Jersey Friday night in Newark, where a large Brazilian population no doubt is excited for the Latin icon’s Garden State debut.
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