Sung about in the second-most recorded pop song in history, “The Girl from Ipanema”, it was originally recorded by Brazilian singer Astrud Gilberto and has been covered by the likes of Frank ...

Marie St. Fleur, Rodney C. Pratt and Tanisha M. Sullivan will receive awards at the MBLA Annual Gala on April 11. COURTESY PHOTOS For the past 51 years, the Massachusetts Black Lawyers Association ...

However, when Ian started writing the song over a bossa nova beat inspired by the work of the Brazilian singer Astrud Gilberto, she imagined a character who didn’t have those kinds of advantages ...

simply titled Getz/Gilberto (also featuring Jobim and the vocals of Astrud Gilberto), sold two million copies within a year of its release, and was the first jazz album to win “Record of the ...

The song was "Água de Beber" by Astrud Gilberto. I loved it — not just the song but also the whole moment. No one felt the need to pretend they were already familiar with the music, and there ...

“Getz/Gilberto,” the disc by Stan Getz and João Gilberto that helped introduce Brazilian bossa nova to the world thanks to Astrud Gilberto's vocals on “The Girl from Ipanema.” Despite ...

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, the singer synonymous with “The Girl From Ipanema,” grew up in Brazil and traveled the world as an ambassador of the gently intoxicating bossa nova sound created by her first husband, ...

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 who popularized "The Girl from Ipanema" in the 1960s, has passed away at the age of 83 at her home in Philadelphia, USA. Gilberto recorded 19 albums throughout ...

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 ...

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 ...