From the Soundboard is a program that usually focuses on concerts regardless of genre. This is where the artist and/or group perfects the art of the “call and response” with its audience. On Tuesday, September 29, at midnight (that’s Monday into Tuesday), we continue celebrating Brazilian Independence through music by re-airing the program that focused on the singer-songwriter from Salvador, Bahia. The Los Angeles Times has hailed her as “sounding a bit like the legendary Elis Regina but with the rhythmic articulation of Ella Fitzgerald.”  She is Rosa Passos.
 
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. Mingling the classics of Gilberto, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Ary Barroso and other masters of Brazilian song with her own enchanting works, Passos sings in a sweet, warm, totally in-tune voice that the Los Angeles Times has hailed as “sounding a bit like the legendary Elis Regina but with the rhythmic articulation of Ella Fitzgerald. [Concord Records]