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Rosa Emilia Dias, sensitive Bahian performer living in Rio at the time of her musical debut and today based in Venice, has had seven albums released in Brazil, Italy and Japan. In 1989, she won the Brazilian Sharp award as the most accomplished Brazilian musical interpreter.In 2010, “Álbum de Retratos – Cacaso Parceiros e Canções” entered the top 10 of the best albums released in Brazil.
Singer and songwriter Rosa Emilia Dias started her career in Salvador de Bahia, where she sang and wrote poems. During a poetry meeting she met Cacaso, with whom she got married and moved to Rio de Janeiro. She trained as opera singer with soprano Victoria Elnecave and baritone Eladio Pérez González. From 1983, she met and worked with renowned artists such as Cacaso, Jaques Morelenbaum, Claudio Nucci, Marco Suzano, Nelson Angelo, Sueli Costa, Danilo Caymmi, Novelli, Sérgio Santos, Paula Santoro, Cristovão Bastos, Robertinho Silva, Nelson Motta, Mario Adnet, Nó em Pingo D’Agua, Mario Sève, Muri Costa, Robertinho Silva, Lígia Diniz, Wanda Sá and many others. In Italy, from 1989, she worked with Fabrizio de André, Renato Sellani, Cristiano Verardo, Carlo Fava, Silvio D’Amico, Massimo Morricone, Stefano Bagnoli, Enzo Zirilli, Nené Ribeiro, Írio de Paula, Roberto Taufic, Gilson Silveira, Marco Ponchiroli, Edu Hebling, and Francesco Casale, to name a few.She released six albums, Ultraleve (Grapho, produced by Cacaso, 1988), Nega Rosa(Lux Music, produced by Nelson Motta, New York, USA, 1997), Baiana da Guanabara(Lua Music, Collective Production, Italy and Brazil, 2004), Poesia do Brasil with Renato Sellani (Philology, Italy, 2006), Batuk with Cristiano Verardo (Cool Division, Italy, 2006), andAlbum de Retratos – Cacaso, Parceiros e Canções, featuring Joyce, Sueli Costa, Nelson Angelo, Sérgio Santos, Zé Renato, Olívia Byington, Nando Carneiro, and Filó Machado – all Cacaso’s partners.Rosa developed an incredibly diverse range of musical partnerships. She was the producer and composer of the lounge album Sonho Tropical for the German brand Heineken along with the creative group ‘H20 Productions’ (Venice, Italy, 2004), and Sakura Mirai Creative Sound (Italy, 2003). She founded several creative groups and took part in a wide variety of musical projects: Nega Rosa, Batuk, H20, SERA (Stefano Cerri, Enzo Zerilli, Andrea Zuppini, and Rosa Emilia), Missa dos Quilombos, Ultraleve, Sitokanero, Bahia canta Caymmi, Tributo a Tom Jobim, and Noites Tropicais.Along with Sérgio Bacelar, she was the director and coordinator of the project ‘Cacaso – Música e Poesia’, March 2009, for the Cultural Centres of the Brazilian Bank (CCBB) in Brasília and Rio de Janeiro.