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she abandoned the instrument to become a singer. In the late 1960s, she began appearing on television and at music festivals. In 1972 she submitted the song "Mutilados" under a pseudonym to the Globo Network's Festival Universitario and won first prize. She recorded her debut album in 1978, working with poet Fernando de Oliveira. A follow-up effort, ''Amorosa'', followed nine years later, in 1988. In the 1990s she recorded several albums of songs by her major influences. She toured Europe in 1999 with

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and on her own in Europe and Japan in 2000. In 2004, ''Amorosa'' was re-released, and attracted notice in the United States, reaching No. 7 on the ''

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'' World Music album chart. In 2008, Passos was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Music from

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Discography

* ''Recriação'' (1979) * ''Amorosa'' (1988) * ''Curare'' (1991) * ''Festa'' (1993) * ''Pano Pra Manga'' (1996) * ''Letra & Música –

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'' (1997) (with Lula Galvao) * ''O melhor de Rosa Passos'' (1997) (best-of compilation) * ''Especial Tom Jobim'' (1998) * ''Rosa Passos Canta

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– 40 Anos de Bossa Nova'' (1998) * ''Morada do Samba'' (1999) * ''Rosa Passos Canta Caymmi'' (2000) * ''Me and My Heart'' (2001) * ''Eu e Meu Coração'' (2003) * ''Azul'' (2002) * ''Entre Amigos'' ( Chesky, 2003) (with

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) * ''Amorosa'' (2004) * ''Rosa Por Rosa'' (2005) * ''Rosa'' (2006) * ''Romance'' (2008) * ''É Luxo Só'' (2011) * ''Samba dobrado'' (2013) * ''Rosa Passos canta Ary, Tom e Caymmi'' (2015) As guest * '' The Rough Guide to the Music of Brazil'' (1998) (

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References

External links

"In Conversation with Rosa Passos"
by Tomas Peña (Jazz.com)
Official Website
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