Mônica Passos

Mônica Passos (born November 29, 1956 in São Paulo ) is a Brazilian actress and singer.

Act

Passos, who has lived in France since 1980, performed at Jazz à Juan the following year . In the next few years she worked as an actress, including with Augusto Boal . As a singer she was on tour in Europe and North America and presented a repertoire based mainly on works by Egberto Gismonti , Hermeto Pascoal , Milton Nascimento and Caetano Veloso ; Since the 1990s own songs, jazz standards and French chansons (especially by Léo Ferré ) have been added. In 2002 she performed with Michel Portal and Bernard Lubat . Emmanuel Bex featured her as a singer in his album Organ Song (2006). She can also be heard with the Ensemble Correspondance um Daniel Beaussier ( Sans (e) krit, 1990) and on the album Song Song Song by Baptiste Trotignon . Bernard Lavilliers interpreted her song À suivre .

In 1988 Passos received the Prix ​​Piaf for her play Dama de paus , which she staged at the Sentier des Halles in Paris . In 1993 Le Monde rated their album Casamento among the "100 best albums of the year". In 2005 she was awarded the Django d'Or in the “World Music” category.

Discography

• Dama de Paus , Socadisc, 1989
• Casamento , Rue bleue, 1993
• Les chiens aboient et la caravane passos , Universal, 1998
• Banzo , Night & Day, 2003
• Emmanuel Bex Organ Song (with Jerôme Barde, Frédéric Monino , François Laizeau ), Naïve Records, 2006
• Lemniscate , Archieball, 2008 (with Archie Shepp )

Filmography

• 1992: Au bord du monde - Fernando Pessoa , director: Valerie Uttscheid
• 1992: Le cercle de minuit (episode of the television series)
• 2003: Jazz à Porquerolles , directed by Frank Cassenti
• 2006: L'Île du jazz , directed by Frank Cassenti

Web links

• Câline et lutine , L'Humanité , February 12, 1994
• Mônica Passos at Arte-Dominicana
• Mônica Passos in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Mônica Passos at Discogs (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Facebook entry