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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 1994. This is FRESH AIR. And we're ...

For about a week in 1964, a bossa nova tune was bigger than songs by the Beatles. The melancholy pop gem “The Girl From Ipanema,” penned by a Brazilian songwriting team, enchanted listeners around the ...

Katie Derham travels to Rio de Janeiro to explore the story behind Brazil's most famous and enduring song, which defines the moment Brazil charmed the world in the 1960s. Show more Documentary in ...

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 ...

The mascots for the Rio 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games will be named 'Tom' and 'Vinicius' after the singer-songwriters who wrote The Girl from Ipanema, organisers said on Sunday. The Olympic mascot ...

A bronze statue was inaugurated Monday (Dec 8) on Ipanema Beach, in Rio de Janeiro, as a tribute to singer and songwriter Tom Jobim. The ceremony was held on his 20th death anniversary, and gathered ...

On this project, pianist David Hazeltine takes on the music of the late Jobim (who would have turned eighty in 2007) by looking at the music from an American point of view, without the typical bossa ...