Desencontro rosa passos biography

Brazilian singer and guitarist

Musical artist

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

Desencontro rosa passos biography

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