From a casual distance, the music of João Gilberto sounds like it might belong to that ancient realm known as “easy listening.” Everything’s calm, for starters. Even at fast tempos, Gilberto’s voice ...

Chanteuse Bebel Gilberto couldn’t have been anything but what she is — a world-class performer, singer, and songwriter. Anything less would have been unfathomable, considering her heritage. Gilberto, ...

Leave it to the daughter of one of the founding fathers of bossa nova to pull the music into a new century. Or at least legitimize the hybrids that have been going on of late. On her debut CD, Tanto ...

Brazilian singer Astrud Gilberto, who in her 20s recorded “The Girl from Ipanema” and became an international star, has died, according to social media posts from her granddaughter and on behalf of ...

Her English-language cameo on the song, which became an all-time standard, made her a worldwide voice of bossa nova. By The Associated Press Astrud Gilberto, the Brazilian singer, songwriter and ...

João Gilberto, the pioneering Brazilian musician and composer credited as “the father of bossa nova,” has died at the age of 88. Gilberto’s son João Marcelo Gilberto confirmed his father’s death ...

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 83. Musician ...