Audio and visual extravaganza kicks off today with official animated video for bossa nova classic 'The Girl From Ipanema' and unique visualizers for some of the most important songs of the canon.
Que Bossa will perform bossa nova and samba standards like “The Girl From Ipanema” as well as modern “bossafied” songs like Cake’s “Never There” at Picnic in the Park on Wednesday, Sept. 13. Que Bossa ...
One of America's first champions of Brazilian bossa nova was Felix Grant. A jazz disc jockey in Washington D.C., Grant hosted The Album Sound on WMAL. His voice had a soft, sophisticated on-air sound ...
As a teen in Sao Paolo in the late 1980s and early 1990s, when most of her peers were enjoying the hits of the day, Juliana Areias was drawn to the bossa nova – a style that was already about 30 years ...
He was the Brazilian music legend who brought bossa nova to a global audience in a career that lasted more than 60 years. In the past few days, tributes have been flooding in for legendary Brazilian ...
Monday nights feel like Saturdays in Rio's Little Africa neighborhood when the sun sets and the samba starts to play. Surrounded by a mostly young crowd, seven musicians sit around a table with the ...
João Gilberto, one of the principal architects of the Brazilian musical style bossa nova, has died at his home in Rio de Janeiro, according to a Facebook post by his son. João Marcelo Gilberto wrote ...