Owner of a special swing, the Bahia Rosa Passos is considered one of the biggest stars of modern popular Brazilian music with influences of jazz and samba.
Is for many a female version of João Gilberto.
It has, like his teacher, a warm voice, sweet, afinadísima.
Rosa Passos's fame began Cando approached the bossa nova, and began to perform songs of the greats.
His latest work, about La Mar de Músicas, Romace, Brasilian Love Songs, and is a collection of the best Brazilian ballads, many of them sung by Elis Regina, taking advantage of to pay a heartfelt tribute to one of the other Brazilian singers popular in the 60 and 70.
Rosa Passos's performance tomorrow, Monday July 14 at 23:00 pm in the Courtyard of Cartagena Artillery Barracks.
Tickets at 15 Euros.
A few hours earlier, at 20:00 hours Siba ea Fuloresta Brazilians also in the Plaza del Ayuntamiento.
We learned from the critic Carlos Galilea (RNE, El País) Morada do the song came from a compliment samba launched by an amateur night in Cartagena, `The samba lives in your house and not pay rent."
It might be added, emulating Noel Rosa 'O samba, a bossas prontidão e outras, são coisas Nossas', at least for Rosa, the passage of time has only put in place to this 'Bahia'.
Songwriter, guitarist and fine singer, has also endorsed João Gilberto, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Vinicius de Moraes, Dorival Caymmi and João to Bosco, Chico Buarque and Elis Regina immeasurable, which Rosa defined as best singer Brazilian of all time.
In fact, in concert at La Mar de Músicas present the repertoire of his latest album, Romance.
Brasilian Love Songs, ballads with some of the most celebrated of Elis Regina, a singer in his own words, has a special place in his heart.
At little more than fifty years has always been considered a privileged to have the opportunity to pursue his two passions: music, which is usually defined mission and has not stopped him joy, and his family, away from the scenarios during the time he lived in Brasilia with her diplomat husband and children.
In recent years he has worked with Paquito D'Rivera, Yo-Yo Ma, Rodrigo Leão, Ron Carter, Chico Buarque, Ivan Lins and the late Henri Salvador.
And it has secured a prolific recording career that brings it closer to drive per year in the last two decades and, ultimately, gave us albums like Rosa (2006) Loving (2004).
His father made his five children to learn to play an instrument.
Rosa chose the piano, began playing five years.
And he went to the guitar to find the MPB (Musica Popular Brasileira), whose repertoire has been enriched with wisdom since it debuted in 1991 with Curare, which we hear Jobim (Dindi, A Felicidade, Danço Só Samba).
Then came Festa (1993) and Pano Pra Manga (1996), a disc which met Ron Carter, who was given half the album Between Friends (2003).
As was also the series Words and Melody that produced by Almir Chediak, paid homage to the legacy of the great Brazilian songwriters.
Blue (2002) was released the same year he participated in the tribute "Tribute to Elis Regina" at Lincoln Center in New York.
And his jump out of Brazil, where their versions of Garota de Ipanema Desafinado or have led to compare it with one of his teachers, João Gilberto (even said that it is the female version) and also with great voices of jazz: his admired Ella Fitzgerald, Nancy Wilson and Blossom Dearie.
Other artists claim it: Chiara Civello signed a version of Outon, Chano Dominguez, Juras, and Paquito D'Rivera calls his participation in the concert held at Carnegie Hall in New York to commemorate fifty years of occupation.
After editing Rosa returns to the ballads and intimate tone Romance - Brasilian Love Songs, a tribute to some of Brazil's most popular singers in the years 1960 and 1970.
Siba ea Fuloresta
The international career of recifeño Siba Veloso (violin, guitar and vocals) is originally linked to the pioneers of the hose-beat: Mestre Ambrosio.
During the 90's, the sextet of Pernambuco updated the musical traditions of his region (the Zona da Mata Norte de Pernambuco), and cirandas maracatus with his own compositions.
He now leads from Nazaré da Mata, where lies come from São Paulo for their own training, Siba ea Fuloresta, which has included musicians from traditional groups of the small town of about thirty thousand inhabitants is less than sixty kilometers from Recife, where they recorded in a small study their first album.
Musicians who have changed the harvesting of sugar cane by the stage, as it would appear in the documentary Fuloresta do Samba.
The tape contained, in addition to the band's participation in international festivals such as the Sphinx or Belgian Roskilde in Denmark, recording sessions, the rituals of Maracatu, and jam sessions with other musicians in the area of La Mata Norte, where the term applies to any samba street party that can dance to the powerful metals (tubas, trombones, trumpets and saxophones) and percussion.
Ziba has done in collaboration with producer Beto Villares, head of Ambulante Discos, in which the band has released their second album, Whenever eu dou um passo / O ond sai world.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena