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Astrud Gilberto spread bossa nova to a welcoming world – but got little love back in Brazil
- Astrud Gilberto backstage at New York City's Birdland Jazz Club in 1964. Popsie Randolph/Michael Ochs Archives via Getty ImagesAstrud 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, who died on June 5, 2023, at the age of 83, she wasn’t expecting to be on the 1964 recording of “The Girl from Ipanema” – the song for which she is best remembered. At the time of the re
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'Girl from Ipanema' singer Astrud Gilberto dies at 83
BRASILIA (Reuters) -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, her family said. Gilberto died on Monday at her home in Philadelphia, her granddaughter Sofia Gilberto said on social media. "Life is beautiful, as the song says, but I bring the sad news that my grandmother became a star today and is next to my grandfather Joao Gilberto," the granddaughter w
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Astrud Gilberto, singer of 'The Girl from Ipanema,' dead at 83
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, has died at age 83. Born in Salvador, Bahia and raised in Rio de Janeiro, Gilberto became an overnight, unexpected superstar in 1964, thanks to knowing just enough English to be recruited by the makers of “Getz/Gilberto,” the classic bossa nova album featuring saxophonist Stan Getz and her then-husband, singer-songwriter-gu
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Astrud Gilberto, singer who sent bossa nova around the world with her seductive rendition of The Girl from Ipanema – obituary
Astrud Gilberto, who has died aged 83, was the young German-Brazilian housewife drafted in as an impromptu bossa nova singer on The Girl from Ipanema (1964), which became one of the bestselling singles of the 1960s and turned the swaying Latin beat into an international craze.
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Creed Taylor, Veteran Jazz Producer and Impulse! Records Founder, Dies at 93
Creed Taylor — the producer and executive who launched the legendary jazz labels Impulse! and CTI, and is credited with introducing bossa nova to the U.S. — died on Aug. 23, as confirmed in a statement from Verve Records. He was 93. “For over 60 years, Creed Taylor expanded the horizons of jazz, from signing […]
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Creed Taylor, a prolific and innovative force in the evolution of jazz who worked with John Coltrane, Ray Charles and many others and a popularizer of Brazilian music who oversaw the recording of such classics as “The Girl from Ipanema” that helped made bossa nova a worldwide phenomenon, has died. Taylor's son John W. Taylor said he died Monday in Winkelhaid, Germany. “Creed Taylor was one of the most incredible producers of our time," George Benson said in a statement Wednesday.
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Joao Gilberto dead: Brazilian bossa nova legend dies, aged 88
Brazilian musician and composer Joao Gilberto died at the age of 88 at his home in Rio de Janeiro on Saturday, his relatives have confirmed.The family did not disclose the cause of death, but on Facebook his son Marcelo Gilberto said “his fight was noble and he tried to maintain dignity”.His daughter-in-law wrote: “Deep sadness. All he wanted was to be with us and to play with his granddaughter.”Born in Bahia, a north-eastern Brazilian state, Gilberto began singing at 18. After moving to Rio, he
