BRASILIA – Astrud Gilberto, the Brazilian singer whose soft, beguiling voice made The Girl From Ipanema a worldwide sensation in the 1960s and provided a huge boost to the budding bossa nova ...

In the late 1950s, the Brazilian musician João Gilberto invented bossa nova. Its worldwide influence was as much the work of the guitarist as of his wives: Astrud, the unforgettable voice behind ...

Astrud Gilberto didn’t set out to be an ambassador of bossa nova, the laid-back Brazilian musical genre with rhythms recognizable to music lovers around the world. According to Gilberto ...

Astrud Gilberto, the Brazilian singer best known for her smooth performance of "The Girl from Ipanema," has died at age 83. Paul Ricci, a family friend and musician, confirmed her death in a ...

in 1940 and was married to Joao Gilberto, a pioneer of the bossa nova genre who died in 2019. Astrud Gilberto recorded 19 albums in her career, but she had little professional music experience ...

Astrud Gilberto, who as the wife of Brazilian singer Joao Gilberto was urged to record “The Girl From Ipanema" and “Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars" in English in March 1963 because he didn't speak the ...

Brazilian singer Astrud Gilberto, whose beguiling rendition of "The Girl From Ipanema" made her world famous, has died at 83. (Story aired on All Things Considered on June 6, 2023.) ASTRUD ...

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil—Satin-voiced Brazilian songstress Astrud Gilberto, who died at 83, shot to fame in the 1960s with “The Girl from Ipanema,” the song that did more than any other to ...

The Brazilian singer died at home in Philadelphia where she had lived since the 1960s Rio de Janeiro: Astrud Gilberto, the Brazilian singer whose soft, beguiling voice made "The Girl from Ipanema ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Astrud Gilberto, the Brazilian singer, songwriter and entertainer whose off-hand, English-language cameo on “The Girl from Ipanema” made her a worldwide voice of bossa nova ...

Brazilian singer Astrud Gilberto, the voice of Bossa Nova whose soft and dreamy version of “The Girl from Ipanema” was an international success in the 1960s, has died at the age of 83 ...