Artist: Rosa Passos
Genre(s):
Other
Latin
Discography:
Amorosa
Year: 2004
Tracks: 12
Morada Do Samba
Year: 1999
Tracks: 13
Rosa Passos Canta Antonio Carlos Jobim
Year: 1998
Tracks: 14
Rosa Passos is one of the few singers soon in Brasil dedicated to a typo organic evolution of Brazilian music, devoid of fashionable trend and commerce. She has established herself hard in the country's aesthetic scene, acknowledged by many such as João Gilberto, Maria Schneider, Clare Pekan, Paquito d'Rivera, Rebel Alf, Nana Caymmi (human beings Health Brass recorded dickens of her compositions), and regular the telephony number one enemy of bossa nova, the underlying music researcher J.R. Tinhorão, even if she hasn't had her merited media exposure.
Her pop was very warm close to music, and he had whole his 6 children started on roughly instrument. Her consummate pitch capabilities helped her to overture successfully the pianoforte at age triad. At 11, she listened to João Gilberto's Orfeu do Carnaval, which changed radically her life. She deserted the pianoforte studies and distinct to be a isaac M. Singer. She began to have paying attention to Gilberto compulsively, and conditioned the violão through his playing in the records. Her other influences were Ella Edward Fitzgerald, Nina Simone, Etta James, Billie Holiday, Dinah Washington, Shirley Horn (world Health Organization has declared to be her fan), Kale William Sydney Porter, and George VI Gershwin, only her main influences remained Dorival Caymmi and João Gilberto.
In 1968 Passos performed in the TV Tupi from Republic of El Salvador ussher Poder Jovem. In 1969 she began to take part in music festivals. In 1972, she inscribed her song "Mutilados" in the Globo Network's Fete Universitário, under nom de guerre, and got the first-class honours degree gear posture. As she couldn't rule whatsoever interestingness in the media for her delicate, vacillation, truthful product loss from scurrilous commercial message appeal, she continued to play and compile at house, attendance college in the incarcerate. In 1978, already sustenance in BrasÃlia, where she has settled permanently, she recorded her debut album, Recriação, with her compositions in partnership with the poet Fernando de Oliveira. Eight-spot years afterward she recorded Amorosa, an explicit tribute to her matinee beau ideal João Gilberto' Amoroso. In 1994 she recorded Curare, with hits by Tom Jobim ("Fotografia," "Dindi," "A Felicidade," "Só Danço Triplochiton scleroxcylon," "O Nosso Amor"), Rebel Alf ("Ilusão à Toa"), Michael Assat Lyra/Vinicius de Moraes ("Coisa Mais Linda"), Ary Barroso, Djavan, and other important composers. In 1996 she recorded Pano pra Manga, for Velas, delivery for the most part her have compositions, along with more or less classic hits by Jobim, Leonard Marx Buarque, and Ary Barroso. For label Lumiar, she recorded an album dedicated to Ary Barroso, in the label series Letra e Música. In the future tense twelvemonth, she recorded, over again for Lumiar, Genus Genus Rosa Passos Canta Antonio Ilich Sanchez Jobim: 40 Anos de Bossa Nova with 14 Jobim classics. In 1999 she was attended by top-class jazz performing artist Paquito d'Rivera on a European jazz circle. In 2000 she released Morada do Samba (Lumiar), resuming her composition work. The album brought 8 of her compositions, together with "Beiral" (Djavan), "Lá Vem a Baiana" (Dorival Caymmi), "Calmaria" (Walmir Palma), "Saudade da Bahia" (Dorival Caymmi), and "Retiro" (Paulinho da Viola). For the year 2000, she engaged a term of duty tour through ten-spot European countries, 1 presentation at the U.S. Hollywood Bowl, and a tour of duty through Japan. Ne'er resting, Passos continued to accept a leak records into the newly millennium, including 2003's Entre Amigos/Among Friends with bassist Daffo Carter, a 2004 re-release of her polar Amorosa on Sony Serious music, and 2006's Genus Rosa on Telarc.
