If João Gilberto is the male bossa-nova whisperer, Rosa Passos is certainly his female peer. Unfortunately, there is way too little biographical material about her online other than she was born in 1952 in the Brazilian state of Bahia, and that at 13, she was inspired to give up the piano for the guitar and a singing career after hearing Gilberto and th…
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