No stranger to Brazil and Brazilian sounds, Dionne Warwick played San Francisco on Feb.6 at the historic Castro Theater.

The show was part of an 11-date string of concerts wrapping up in September. Warwick has been recording for more than four decades and has dabbled in Bossa Nova and Brazilian recordings throughout her award-winning career. On her 1994 Aquarela Do Brasil, she’s worked with a Who’s Who of Brazilian stars including Dori Caymmi, Ivan Lins, and Chico Buarque, to name just a few. Connect Brazil calls the album “the most unique chapter of pop star Dionne Warwick’s life.”

Apparently, Brazil had a major impact on her career and she opened up this week in an interview with the San Francisco Chronicle about her career and 18 years of actually living in Brazil:

Although she went on to work with such other noted songwriters and producers as Thom Bell, Jerry Ragovoy, Barry Manilow, Stevie Wonder and Barry Gibb of the Bee Gees, she always comes back to Bacharach and David. She appears Saturday at the Castro Theatre in a concert produced by the Rrazz Room. She spoke by telephone from her New Jersey home, where she lives when she’s not at her other home in Brazil.

Q: When did you move to Brazil?

A: About 18 years ago. I’ve been living in Rio for the past 15 years. I’m moving to a wonderful place called Bahia. It’s in the northern region of Brazil, going up toward the Amazon. It is absolutely glorious. It’s on the ocean, of course. I think all of Brazil is on the ocean. It has part of the rain forest there. I call it my paradise. It’s where I need to be at this point in my life. I’m still looking. As soon as I find the place that says ‘This is it,’ I’m moving. I try to get down every two or three months. It hasn’t worked out so well this year so far.

Warwick’s Aquarela Do Brasil is available for purchase at Connect Brazil.