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Astrud Gilberto:  Born in Bahia, Brazil and raised in Rio de Janeiro  Married João Gilberto  Never sang professionally until Gilberto’s album with Stan Getz o João suggested she sing o Album was one of the best selling jazz albums of all time o This album was released in the US  Later divorced João  Was the singer on the song The Girl From Ipanema  This success helped her become a well known jazz singer; she began writing her own music and released a couple of solo albums  Hated performing in night clubs – had stage fright; only performed in theaters for a while; later got over fright and sold old several clubs such as “Fat Tuesdays,” “SOBs,” and “The Jazz Café” in London.  Has continued her career, touring and has added her sons to her band Antonio “Tom” Jobim  Influenced by French composers, Brazilian samba and jazz music; played piano and a little guitar  Made his first record in 1954  Teamed up with poet Vinicius de Moraes to compose music for the play The Black Orpheus; this made him very popular in Brazil (1956)  1958, João Gilberto begins recording some of Jobim’s songs; these songs helped launch bossa nova  In 1959, the play was turned into a movie and the producer did not want to use the original soundtrack, so Jobim and Vinicus wrote 3 new songs for the film that proved to be very successful and made Jobim known as an excellent composer  Jobim's breakthrough outside Brazil occured in 1962 when Stan Getz and Charlie Byrd scored a surprise hit with his tune "Desafinado"--and later that year, he and several other Brazilian musicians were invited to participate in a Carnegie Hall showcase.  Fueled by Jobim's songs, the bossa nova became an international fad, and jazz musicians jumped on the bandwagon recording album after album of bossa novas until the trend ran out of commercial steam in the late '60s  Fell into background writing more for film and TV, but resurfaced in the mid 1980’s to go on tour  Wrote The Girl From Ipanema and performed it with Astrud Gilberto  Did songs with US artists such as Ella Fitzgerald and Frank Sinatra  Died in 1994 João Gilbert  During high school, Gilberto teamed up with some of his classmates to form a small band. Gilberto, who led the band, was influenced by Brazilian popular songs, American jazz, and even some opera, among other genres.  After trying his luck as a radio singer in Salvador, Bahia, the young Gilberto was recruited in 1950 as lead singer of the vocal quintet Garotos da Lua (The Boys of

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the Moon) and moved to Rio de Janeiro. A year and a half, later, he was dismissed the group for his lack of discipline (he would often show up late to rehearsals or not at all). For seven years, Gilberto's career was at a standstill. He rarely had any work and fell into chronic depression. Eventually he was rescued from this rut by Luiz Telles, leader of the vocal group Quitandinha Serenaders, This is when João Gilberto blossomed. Next he spent eight months with his sister played day and night, forging a personal style for voice and guitar that would come to be known as bossa nova. Bossa nova is a refined version of samba, de-emphasizing the percussive aspect of its rhythm and enriching the melodic and harmonic content. Rather than relying on the traditional Afro-Brazilian percussive instruments, João Gilberto often eschews all accompaniments except his guitar, which he uses as a percussive as well as a harmonic instrument. The singing style he developed is almost whispering, economical, and without vibrato. He creates his tempo tensions by singing ahead or behind the guitar. Gilberto introduced in 1957 and many young guitarists sought to imitate it. It was first heard on record in 1958, when João Gilberto accompanied singer Elizete Cardoso in a recording of "Chega de Saudade", a song by Antonio Carlos Jobim and Vinicius de Moraes. Shortly after this recording, João Gilberto made his own debut single of the same song, followed by the 1959 LP, Chega de Saudade. The song turned into a hit, launching Gilberto's career and the bossa nova craze. Besides a number of Jobim compositions, the album featured older sambas and popular songs from the 1940s and '50s, all performed in Gilberto's distinctive style. This album was followed by two more in 1960 and 1961, by which time the singer featured new songs by a younger generation of performer/composers By 1962, bossa nova had been embraced by North American jazz musicians such as Charlie Byrd and Stan Getz, who invited Gilberto and Jobim to collaborate on what became one of the best-selling jazz albums of all time, Getz/Gilberto. Through this album, Gilberto's wife Astrud became an international star, and the Jobim/de Moraes composition "The Girl from Ipanema" became a worldwide pop music standard. João Gilberto lived in the United States from 1962 until 1969, when he moved to Mexico for two years. There he recorded João Gilberto en México (1970). João Gilbert In 1976 he released The Best of Two Worlds, a reunion with Stan Getz, featuring singer Miúcha, who had become Gilberto's second wife in April 1965. Amoroso (1977) backed Gilberto with the lush string orchestration of Claus Ogerman, who had provided a similar sound to Jobim's instrumental recordings in the late 1960s and early 1970s. As had been the case for all of Gilberto's albums, the album consisted mostly of Jobim compositions, mixed with older sambas and an occasional North American standard from the 1940s. João Gilberto returned to Brazil in 1980. The following year saw the release of Brasil Continued to release albums through the 1990s

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Has been called eccentric as he refuses interviews and performances in venues that he feels are not up to his acoustic standards He continues to perform to sell-out crowds in Brazil as well as in Europe, North America and Japan...