Track Listings (14) - Disc #1| All Artists: Rosa Passos Title: Best of Rosa Passos Members Wishing: 2 Total Copies: 0 Label: Velas Original Release Date: 5/16/2000 Release Date: 5/16/2000 Genres: International Music, Jazz, Pop, Latin Music Styles: South & Central America, Brazil, Latin Jazz Number of Discs: 1 SwapaCD Credits: 1 UPC: 692057100422 |
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With a distinctive voice so airy and gentle that a whisper seems like a clap of thunder in comparison, Rosa Passos epitomizes Brazilian bossa nova and samba. Her multidecade career gets the retrospective it deserves in t... more » |
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Amazon.com With a distinctive voice so airy and gentle that a whisper seems like a clap of thunder in comparison, Rosa Passos epitomizes Brazilian bossa nova and samba. Her multidecade career gets the retrospective it deserves in this newly remastered collection of some of her most influential performances, including Passos's marvelous collaboration with the songwriter Chico Buarque on the sardonic love song "Com Acucar, com Afeto." The second duet on this disc pairs Passos with co-composer Ivan Lins on "Abajur Lilas," which also showcases Marco Brita's evocative piano, the crooning soprano sax of Sergio Galvao, and jazzy musical direction by Lula Galvao. The accordion-sweetened "Juras" shows off Passos's talent as an arranger with a special touch for combining almost palpable textures. Famous in her country since her 1972 debut, Passos remained one of Brazil's best-kept secrets until the international success of 1991's recently rereleased Curare, an homage to the rich heritage of Brazilian music. --Bob Tarte Similarly Requested CDs
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CD ReviewsMagical Artist | Irvine, CA USA | 01/15/2000 (5 out of 5 stars) "The music of Rosa Passos is intimate, romantic and sexy. She sings in the simple, almost folk style of Brasil, but she has a jazz sensibility and an honesty and easy emotionality that goes right to your heart. Not every note is exactly on pitch, but somehow it's always close enough and the little flaws just make her more approachable and real. She doesn't have a big, strong voice. She has a light and expressive sound, sometimes whispering or sighing, sometimes making a bolder statement, but always as though telling her life stories to one of her closest friends. She also writes beautiful songs. Kenny Rankin features one of her songs and also does a duo with her on his best album, Here In My Heart. Rosa Passos' album is beautifully arranged and it sounds musical, not commercial. If you like the music of Ivan Lins, you will love this." A Rose Estrelinha | 04/19/2004 (5 out of 5 stars) "Incredible. This woman can break your heart with her whisper. Never as showy as Marisa Monte, never as dramatic as Maria Bethania, she still does it - effortlessly, naturally. To be beautiful, a rose does not have to make efforts - she IS beautiful. And so is Rosa's voice - it has all the sweetness of a hummingbird's singing, all the joy of a morning breeze in the leaves, and all the melancholy of the sea. And that is why for me her voice is the best voice of Brazil. Eu Te Amo Rosa." Incredible arrangements jeffinho_branco | Los Angeles, CA United States | 06/14/2000 (5 out of 5 stars) "I first heard Rosa when I saw her open for Gilberto Gil at the Hollywood Bowl (her only American appearance that I know of). She is an amazing songwriter, but her arrangements of other people's compositions (mainly Chico Buarque's "Com Açucar, Com Afeito" and Ary Barroso's brilliant "É Luxo Só") are simply perfect. Having mainly been a songwriter for most of her career, I'm really happy that she is now putting out her own CD's. She has a really sweet, youthful voice and her music is very infectious bossa-samba."
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