In Bossa Nova ... music with them to the Latin American countries, including finger snapping and castanets playing - commonly associated with the Spanish flamenco dance style.

Gilberto's style - mixing traditional and modern musical influences - inspired bossa nova, or new trend, music and many other artists after him. In 1964, he famously collaborated with America ...

who helped popularise bossa nova and samba with Western audiences, has died at the age of 83, his family has confirmed. The bandleader and composer is best known for the buoyant Latin pop hit Mas ...