Best of Rosa Passos

Rosa Passos | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 16, 2000)
• Original Release Date: May 16, 2000
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Velas
• ASIN: B00004TCNV
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #173,859 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Aquarela Do Brazil

2. Águas de Março (Waters of March)

3. De Flor Em Flor

4. Zanga Zangada

5. E Luxo S

6. Curare

7. Feitiço da Vila

8. Com Acucar, Com Afeto

9. Caminhos Cruzados

10. Valera a Pena

11. Juras

12. Chovendo Na Roseira

13. Amor Em Paz

14. Abajur Lilás

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars magical, January 15, 2000

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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.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Rose, April 19, 2004

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Estrelinha - See all my reviews

This review is from: Best of Rosa Passos (Audio CD)

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.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Incredible arrangements, June 14, 2000

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"jeffinho_branco" (Los Angeles, CA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Best of Rosa Passos (Audio CD)

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.