Astrud Gilberto backstage at New York City's Birdland Jazz Club in 1964. Popsie Randolph/Michael Ochs Archives via Getty Images Astrud Gilberto didn’t set out to be an ambassador of bossa nova, the ...

Astrud Gilberto, the Brazilian singer who took bossa nova to the top of the charts with her famous version of “The Girl from Ipanema,” has died. She was 83. Her son, Marcelo, confirmed the news to The ...

Composed by Antonio Carlos Jobim and Vinicius de Moraes, the song The Girl from Ipanema immortalized the Brazilian beauty. Tall and tanned and lovely and walking along the sandy shores of Rio de ...

Astrud Gilberto, the Brazilian singer whose version of "The Girl From Ipanema" helped popularize bossa nova around the world, has died. The Guardian reports that Gilberto's collaborator Paul Ricci ...

Astrud Gilberto, the Brazilian singer best known for her smooth performance of “The Girl from Ipanema,” has died at age 83. Paul Ricci, a family friend and musician, confirmed her death in a Facebook ...

(CNN) — 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 ...

Astrud Gilberto, the bossa nova singer known for her instantly recognisable recording of “The Girl From Ipanema”, has died at the age of 83. Gilberto’s son, Marcelo, confirmed to The Independent that ...

(MENAFN- The Conversation) Astrud Gilberto didn't set out to be an ambassador of bossa nova , the laid-back Brazilian musical genre with rhythms recognizable to music lovers around the world.