Brazilian music, with its flowing rhythms and rich percussion, is a natural partner for the enthusiastic beats of electronic sub-genres house and drum-and-bass. Singer Bebel Gilberto, who has recorded ...

Universal Music Brasil is reissuing four classics from Chico Buarque, Elis Regina, Gal Costa and Caetano Veloso, and Gilberto ...

Brazilian singer Astrud Gilberto, who in her 20s recorded “The Girl from Ipanema” and became an international star, has died, according to social media posts from her granddaughter and on behalf of ...

Her English-language cameo on the song, which became an all-time standard, made her a worldwide voice of bossa nova. By The Associated Press Astrud Gilberto, the Brazilian singer, songwriter and ...

On occasion you will hear an artist say just finishing an album is the greatest reward they can have and everything that comes after is a bonus. That is certainly true for Brazilian icon Bebel ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. The British Invasion gets all the ink, but in 1964, as The Beatles were upending pop culture, a record by a jazz hit-maker and a ...

Astrud Gilberto - vocalist, recording artist, composer. Astrud Gilberto, known as "The Girl from Ipanema" and often referred to as "The Queen of Bossa-Nova," is an artist with roots firmly planted in ...

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Born João Gilberto do Prado Pereira de Oliveira on June 10, 1931, in the town of Juázeiro in the northeastern state of Bahia, Brazil. His father was a wealthy merchant who insisted that all of his ...

Astrud Gilberto, the singer of Stan Getz and João Gilberto’s classic 1963 version of “The Girl From Ipanema,” died yesterday (June 5), The Independent reports, citing her son Marcelo. No cause of ...