Astrud Gilberto, the Brazilian bossa nova singer best known for The Girl from Ipanema, has died aged 83. One of Brazil's biggest stars of the 1960s and 70s, she recorded 16 albums and worked with ...

5, in a Los Angeles hospital Sérgio Mendes, the Brazilian-born musician who brought bossa nova music to a global audience in ...

Influential Brazilian musician João Gilberto has died aged 88. The singer and composer was known best as a pioneer of the bossa nova genre, which found international popularity in the 1960s.

She was best known for “Blame It on the Bossa Nova,” a playful Top 10 hit back in 1963. But Eydie Gorme, who died at 84 on Saturday following an undisclosed illness, was a singer whose ...

This led him to abandon his classical music studies. Upon forming the Bossa Rio Sexet, with whom he recorded his debut album Dance Moderno in 1961, Mendes generated massive appeal among fans back ...