Astrud Gilberto, the Brazilian singer and songwriter who made bossa nova famous worldwide with the song “The Girl from Ipanema,” has died at age 83.
Astrud Gilberto, the iconic Brazilian singer-songwriter who brought bossa nova to global audiences with the 1964 hit “The Girl from Ipanema,” has died. She was 83.
"Rest in peace my eternal Muse. You may sing with birds and angels, beautiful Astrud," she wrote on social media. “I begged him to tell me what it was, but he adamantly refused, and would just say: ‘Wait and see ...’ Later on, while rehearsing with Stan, as they were in the midst of going over the song ‘The Girl from Ipanema,’ João casually asked me to join in, and sing a chorus in English, after he had just sung the first chorus in Portuguese. So, I did just that,” she explained.
Jazz saxophonist Stan Getz, left, guitarist Antonio Carlos Jobim and singer Astrud Gilberto perform at the Cafe Au Go Go in circa 1964 in New York.“Isn’t there an ancient proverb to the effect that ‘No one is a prophet in his own land?’” she asked in 2002. ”I have no qualms with Brazilians, and I enjoy myself very much when I go to Brazil. Of course, I go there as an incognito visitor, and not as a performer.
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