Once the 'Mozart of Brazilian popular music' the great bossanovista is now a recluse with a family feuding over his legacy.
His gentle voice in Girl from Ipanema still charms, but for Joao Gilberto, the sunny days of his bossa nova prime half a century ago have been replaced by ...
RIO DE JANEIRO (AFP) - His gentle voice in Girl From Ipanema still charms, but for Joao Gilberto, the sunny days of his bossa nova prime half a century ago ...
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Grammy-nominated Brazilian singer Bebel Gilberto joined Soul Sisters to tell us about growing up with the complicated genius of her father (the founder of bossa ...
From the November 2017 issue of Acoustic Guitar | BY MAC RANDALL. A warm tropical breeze. Sand swishing through toes. The rays of the setting sun ...
One of the most popular songs in the bossa nova canon is Antônio Carlos Jobim's “Corcovado (Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars),” a wistful melody that takes its name ...
In 1988, Terry Gross spoke with Jobim, who wrote "The Girl from Ipanema," one of the songs that started the Bossa nova craze in the United States. Jobim died in ...