In her native Brazil, Rosa Passos is known and loved as "a feminine João Gilberto." For a singer/songwriter who carries the soulful cool of bossa nova into a new age, there can be no higher compliment ...

The bossa nova's not so new anymore. It's been forty years since Stan Getz and Charlie Byrd brought its gentle pulse north of the border. Getz and Byrd's version of "Desafinado was a surprise hit, and ...

Spoken or sung, the Portuguese language often sounds like music. NPR's Felix Contreras profiles Brazilian bossa nova singer Rosa Passos. Her new album, Amorosa, preserves the traditional style of ...

Far from home, Rosa Passos is looking forward to sharing the sultry, soulful sound of Brazil with her countryfolk and an American audience next week in Boston. Known throughout international musical ...

SAO PAULO, Jan 25 (Reuters Life!) - Brazilian singer Rosa Passos has played for audiences from New York's Carnegie Hall to Japan, enchanting them with the gentle, wistful melodies of her homeland, ...

If the legendary vocalist Sarah Vaughan hadn’t already taken the appellation the Divine One, the glorious Brazilian singer Passos could now wear it with ease. As subtle and bracing as a morning ...

Rosa Passos was a victim of being born too late: Part of bossa's second wave at the end of the 1960s, she developed quite a following in her homeland, though her recordings never reached American ...

January 30, 2005 • Spoken or sung, the Portuguese language often sounds like music. NPR's Felix Contreras profiles Brazilian bossa nova singer Rosa Passos. Her new album, Amorosa, preserves the ...

“I’m very sorry,” the Brazilian bossa nova singer Rosa Passos told her audience, “but I don’t speak English very well.” Her saxophonist, she explained, would translate for her. It really didn’t matter ...