 Dour Ramsey of "JazzTimes" stated "Pianist Eliane Elias’ easy Brazilian atmospherics on much of "Kissed by Nature" resemble Gary McFarland’s pop-jazz successes of the 1960s, "Soft Samba" and "The In Sound".The title piece, with English lyrics and a vocal by Elias, sets the comfortable tone.Many of the tracks have an overdubbed choir of Eliases singing in Portuguese.