Chovendo na roseira rosa passos biography

Brazilian singer and guitarist

Musical artist

Rosa Passos (Brazilian Portuguese:[ˈʁozɐˈpasus]; born April 13, ) is a Brazilian singer and guitarist.

Passos began playing piano at age thirteen, but after listening to Dorival Caymmi and João Gilberto she abandoned the instrument to become a singer.

Rosa Passos epitomizes Brazilian bossa nova and samba.

A beautiful little set of modern Brazilian vocal jazz tracks, pulled from the rich recording history of one of Brazil's better recent voices.

Especial Tom Jobim by Rosa Passos released in Find album reviews, track lists, credits, awards and more at AllMusic.

Pano Pra Manga by Rosa Passos released in Find album reviews, track lists, credits, awards and more at AllMusic.

Chovendo na Roseira.” The closing movement, 'Coral e Melodia,' begins with choral harmony executed by bowed contrabasses and two berimbaus.

In the late s, she began appearing on television and at music festivals. In she submitted the song "Mutilados" under a pseudonym to the Globo Network's Festival Universitario and won first prize.^[1] She recorded her debut album in , working with poet Fernando de Oliveira.

A follow-up effort, Amorosa, followed nine years later, in In the s she recorded several albums of songs by her major influences. She toured Europe in with Paquito D'Rivera and on her own in Europe and Japan in ^[1] In , Amorosa was re-released, and attracted notice in the United States, reaching No.

7 on the Billboard World Music album chart.^[1] In , Passos w