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 ...

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 ...

If João Gilberto is the male bossa-nova whisperer, Rosa Passos is certainly the female equivalent. There is little biographical material about her online other than she was born in 1952 in the ...

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 ...

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 ...