Biography
Rosa Marya Colin made her initial forays into performance at Rio de Janeiro’s Rádio Tupi and Rádio Mayrink Veiga, also delivering jazz and bossa nova interpretations inside the celebrated Beco das Garrafas. Critics first registered her presence with the 1965 release of her debut album Uma Rosa com Bossa. After appearing as an actress in theater, film and television—including the productions Hair, Paixão de Drácula and Presença de Vinícius, the TV Manchete soap opera Escrava Anastácia and the Antunes Filho film Compasso de Espera—she sang in Mexico in 1971. Between 1974 and 1978 she worked regularly with the Traditional Jazz Band at São Paulo’s Opus 2004 club. From 1975 through 1980 she joined an array of presentations such as Canto da Terra in São Paulo, Seis e Meia, Pixinguinha (alongside Luís Melodia), Acorde in São Paulo, the Festival das Mulheres nas Artes and the Festival do Disco in Rio Grande do Sul. Her 1981 appearances at the Jazz and Blues club in Los Angeles and Le Chansonier in Paris proved successful. In 1983 she mounted the production Força with Célia and Míriam Batucada at São Paulo’s Procópio Ferreira theater and joined the Brazilian Week events in Venice. She received the Best Interpreter award at the XIV Festival Nacional e Internacional de Intérpretes de La Canción held in Buga, Colombia, in 1987. The following year her re-recording of the Mamas and the Papas hit “California Dreamin’” became her most notable commercial achievement. She brought the show Rosa in Blues across Brazil in 1990 and performed at New York’s Lehman Center for the Performing Arts and the Ballroom two years afterward. For her contribution to Edu Lobo’s Rá-Tim-Bum she earned a Sharp prize. Eighteen appearances at the Ballroom in 1993 drew favorable notices from the New York Times; in 1994 she played engagements in Chicago, New York and Brazil, where she featured in the TV Globo special Retrato de Mulher. After taking part in the musical Viva Elvis, she toured Brazil with Uma Rosa na Asa do Vento in 1996 and appeared the next year in Wolf Maia and Cininha de Paula’s Cabaret Brasil. Her reading of “Brida” served as the opening theme for the 1998 TV Manchete soap opera of the same name, and that year she again traveled throughout Brazil presenting the show Cores.
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