RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Chauffeured in a classic Porsche, the Brazilian beauty steps out into 1960s Rio de Janeiro. The pastel pastiche is easy on the eyes, and so is the pin-up girl tracing twirls as a ...

Perhaps best known worldwide from the 1960s jazz song "The Girl From Ipanema," which describes a "tall and tan and young and lovely" who who walks "like a samba," the Ipanema neighborhood of Brazil’s ...

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.

Such a portrayal is synonymous with famed pieces of shoreline like Copacabana or Ipanema in Rio de Janeiro – but with over ...

Nearly everyone can hum at least a few lines of the famous bossa nova classic, “The Girl From Ipanema.” But most don’t know the story of the girl who inspired the song by lyricist Vinicius de Moraes, ...

Singer had no previous recording experience when she sang a defining song of Brazilian culture in 1963 Astrud Gilberto, whose dreamy interpretation of The Girl from Ipanema became the most popular ...

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Astrud Gilberto, the singer whose beloved recording of "The Girl From Ipanema" is often credited with bringing Brazilian bossa nova to the United States, has died. She was 83. Her granddaughter Sofia ...