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Fabiana is loaded with talent and has a star quality persona to match. We are fortunate that she didn't let go of her dream. And with some luck, the future will hold many great things for her. (2007) - Randy Morse - KZUM 89.3
A very outstanding singer; a very stunning looking lady with a very fresh, stunning voice. Some fantastic stuff. Great Brazilian jazz and highly recommendable. (2007) - Saúl Zavarce - PBS FM 106.7 Melbourne, Australia
I am really pumped, excited about the Fabiana Passoni CD … she has some great musicians behind her. My hat is off to this young lady on her new album É Minha Vez. (2007) - Manny - KRTU 91.7 FM
If the rating system would allow more than 5 stars; I'd rate this CD with a 10. Fabiana's debut album is full of great surprises musically, but above all is her fascinating voice; I own several hundred Brazilian Jazz female vocalists; and Fabiana is at the top 10 right off the bat; very enjoyable. (2007) - CD Baby Reviewer: Papetti
Com o titulo ‘É Minha Vez’ (It’s my turn), a poços-caldense Fabiana Passoni chega para se impor no Mercado musical. Em seu primeira album a artista demonstra sua influências gravando do clássicos da Música Popular Brasileira em releituras jazzisticas. As canções são gravados com arranjos completamente diferentes e inovados, envolvendo a fusão de vários estilos brasileiros e o jazz. (May 8th, 2007)
With the title 'It's My Turn' our own Fabiana Passoni has arrived on the commercial music scene. In her first album, this artist demonstrates her musical influences by recording some Brazilian classic pop music in a jazz format. The songs are recorded with totally different arrangements that are very innovative and involve a fusion of various Brazilian styles with jazz. (May 8th, 2007) - Cris Gonçalves - Journal Mantiqueira
Discography
2007 - E Minha Vez (It's My Turn).
Track samples can be heard on iTunes or at www.cdbaby.com/fabianapassoni or on my website at
www.fabianapassoni.com.
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Bio
I was born in Pocos de Caldas; a small town in Brazil. I started singing when I was 6 years old. My daddy would sit on the couch, composing songs and I would sing along with him. He taught me about interpretation and how to play to an audience.
My first professional contract was singing at political rallies throughout my home state of Minas Gerais. At 11, I was singing in nightclubs and at private parties. Through everyone's eyes I was a huge success at so early an age. But I wasn't happy. I didn't like the kind of music I was singing. I was offered my first recording contract at 12. I turned it down. People were surprised. People were angry. I took a break from performing.
It's important to me to connect to my audience; to make them feel better than when they came in; to leave an impression in their soul. That's not easy to do when you are only singing rock, axe, pagode and carnival. My main goal was to simply sing the kind of music I wanted to sing; and to compose!
So I left Brazil and moved to New York to sing bossa nova jazz fusion. Ella Fitzgerald and Leny Andrade influenced my style. Unfortunately, the gigs that paid were the ones for pop, rock and axe. I didn't last very long doing that and I stopped singing again. A few years passed by and I gave it another try. I was singing bossa nova; mostly at Brazilian BBQ houses and a few private parties. But I still had no confidence to write my own songs. I moved to California to get a fresh start.
Sitting on the beach one day, the lyrics for E Minha Vez popped into my head. From that day on things really took off. I charged ahead and my first CD is the result of this energy. Of course I couldn't do it by myself. Paulinho and Rafael in Brazil gave me two great songs to record (Serenata and Isso E Hora?). My producer, Dirk Freymuth, really came up with some creative arrangements for Darlin' (an old Beach Boys tune) and Mudar O Mundo (Change the World).
Now that I have the confidence to write more songs, I�m already hard at work on my second CD.
In the meantime, I hope you enjoy my music.
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