From Pop to Jazz and Classical to Broadway, Coloratura Soprano Bonnie Bowden began singing at the age of 3 and performed throughout her youth in schools, contests, musicals, theme parks, jazz, pop and choral groups. In 1969 her first professional singing job was a soloist for a choreographed musical revue in the Crazy Horse Saloon at Six Flags Over Texas. Moving to California in 1970, she landed a soloist position at Disneyland with the Top 40 Pop Rock Band Sound Castle Ltd on the Tomorrowland Terrace.

In 1972 Brazilian bandleader Sérgio Mendes was looking for a new soloist. Bonnie began touring the world and recorded multiple albums with the group. Her featured solo recordings are Love Music, Waiting For Love, Hey Look At The Sun, Put A Little Love Away, All In Love is Fair, The Trouble With Hello Is Goodbye, This Masquerade, It’s So Obvious That I Love You, Lookin’ For Another Pure Love, It’s Up To You, Cut That Out, If You Really Love Me, Summer Queen, Magic Wheels, Here Comes The Sun, Sunny Day and Double Rainbow.

Bonnie has worked with a variety of notables. Among them her husband guitarist David Amaro, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Stevie Wonder, Dave Grusin, George Duke, Dori Caymmi, Hubert Laws, Jorge Ben, Gilberto Gil, Djavan, Steve Allen and Dizzy Gellespie.

Equally at home on stage or in studio, her vocal solos have been featured on many recordings throughout the years. Her recording of “Indian Summer” arranged by legendary Count Basie arranger, Sammy Nestico from her CD “Bonnie Bowden Sings the Great American Songbook” received a Grammy Nomination for Best Female Vocalist. A multilingual performer, she sings in French, Italian, German, Spanish, Japanese, Latin and Portuguese.