Bio:
Rosa Passos is a singer/songwriter from Salvador, Bahia, working in the closely linked musical idioms of bossa nova and samba.
Rosa Passos - cantora, compositora e violinista - nasceu e viveu cercada de música na capital da Bahia, Salvador. Em 1972, sua composição ‘Mutilados’ ganhou o primeiro lugar no festival da Universidade da Bahia. Seu primeiro álbum 'Recriação' veio em 1979, junto com o compositor Fernando de Oliveira, parceiro de longa data.
Em 1991, lançou seu álbum ‘Curare’, contendo clássicos acordes da MPB de Tom Jobim, Ary Barroso, Carlos Lyra, entre outros. Em 1996, lança o CD ‘Pano pra manga’. No total são 17 álbuns.
Rosa tem uma vasta experiência no exterior, tendo se apresentado na América Latina, na Europa e Estados Unidos ao lado de grandes nomes da música mundial, como Ron Carter, Paquito D’Rivera, Yo-Yo Ma, Cyro Baptista, Henri Salvador, entre outros.
Em 2006 Rosa se apresenta ‘solo’ no palco do Carnegie Hall Zanken Hall em um show de voz e violão. Rosa dedicou o ano de 2007 ao público brasileiro e em novembro de 2007 apresentou-se no Blue Note de New York , prestigiada casa de jazz, uma série de seis shows que anteciparam sua participação como homenageada da Berklee College Of Music em Boston onde ministrou oficinas de música com presença do corpo docente e alunos da renomada escola.
Em janeiro de 2013 gravou um cd dedicado à música de Djavan, através da MdA International volta a percorrer o Brasil e mundo com apresentações junto a seu grupo.
Contact Information
Management/Booking:
General Management
Marco de Almeida [email protected]
+55 15 3211 1360
www.mdainternational.com.br
North America Management and Bookings
Charles Carlini In Touch Entertainment
(212) 714-7722 x703 [email protected]
www.intouchhome.com
5 Columbus Circle, 8th Fl | New York, NY 10019
The Recôncavo is an almost invisible center-of-gravity. Circumscribing the Bay of All Saints, this region was landing for more enslaved human beings than any other such throughout all of human history. Not unrelated, it is also birthplace of some of the most physically & spiritually uplifting music ever made. —Sparrow
"Dear Sparrow: I am thrilled to receive your email! Thank you for including me in this wonderful matrix."
—Susan Rogers: Personal recording engineer for Prince, inc. "Purple Rain", "Sign o' the Times", "Around the World in a Day"... Director of the Berklee Music Perception and Cognition Laboratory
I'm Pardal here in Brazil (that's "Sparrow" in English). The deep roots of this project are in Manhattan, where Allen Klein (managed the Beatles and The Rolling Stones) called me about royalties for the estate of Sam Cooke... where Jerry Ragovoy (co-wrote Time is On My Side, sung by the Stones; Piece of My Heart, Janis Joplin of course; and Pata Pata, sung by the great Miriam Makeba) called me looking for unpaid royalties... where I did contract and licensing for Carlinhos Brown's participation on Bahia Black with Wayne Shorter and Herbie Hancock...
...where I rescued unpaid royalties for Aretha Franklin (from Atlantic Records), Barbra Streisand (from CBS Records), Led Zeppelin, Mongo Santamaria, Gilberto Gil, Astrud Gilberto, Airto Moreira, Jim Hall, Wah Wah Watson (Melvin Ragin), Ray Barretto, Philip Glass, Clement "Sir Coxsone" Dodd for his interest in Bob Marley compositions, Cat Stevens/Yusuf Islam and others...
...where I worked with Earl "Speedo" Carroll of the Cadillacs (who went from doo-wopping as a kid on Harlem streetcorners to top of the charts to working as a janitor at P.S. 87 in Manhattan without ever losing what it was that made him special in the first place), and with Jake and Zeke Carey of The Flamingos (I Only Have Eyes for You)... stuff like that.
Yeah this is Bob's first record contract, made with Clement "Sir Coxsone" Dodd of Studio One and co-signed by his aunt because he was under 21. I took it to Black Rock to argue with CBS' lawyers about the royalties they didn't want to pay. They paid.
MATRIX MUSICAL
The Matrix was built below among some of the world's most powerfully moving music, some of it made by people barely known beyond village borders. Or in the case of Sodré, his anthem A MASSA — a paean to Brazil's poor ("our pain is the pain of a timid boy, a calf stepped on...") — having blasted from every radio between the Amazon and Brazil's industrial south, before he was silenced. (that's me left, with David Dye & Kim Junod for U.S. National Public Radio) ... The Matrix started with Sodré, with João do Boi, with Roberto Mendes, with Bule Bule, with Roque Ferreira... music rooted in the sugarcane plantations of Bahia. Hence our logo (a cane cutter).