‘Girl From Ipanema’ singer dead: Astrud Gilberto was 83

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Astrud Gilberto, known for her sultry song “The Girl From Ipanema,” passed away at 83. Gilberto, which popularized Brazilian bossa nova in the United States in the 1960s, has over four decades of musical and recording career.Despite working with celebrated musicians like Gil Evans, Stanley Turrentine, James Last, and George Michael, “The Girl From Ipanema,” written by Antonio Carlos Jobim and Vinicius de Moraes, is her biggest success.Gilberto was married to João Gilberto, known as the father of the bossa nova.

Quincy Jones, George Michael and more.News of her death was broken by her granddaughter, Sofia, who announced the update with a post on Instagram. “I’m here to bring you the sad news that my grandmother became a star today, and is next to my grandfather João Gilberto,” she wrote (as translated from Portuguese).“She was a pioneer and the best.

Astrud Gilberto, the singer best known for super hit The Girl From Ipanema, has sadly died at the age of 83.

a report from the Guardian. Gilberto was 83 at the time of her death. No cause of death has yet to be reported.

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Astrud Gilberto, the Brazilian singer, has died at the age of 83. Musician Paul Ricci, a family friend, confirmed that she died Monday. He did not provide additional details.

“The Girl from Ipanema” singer Astrud Gilberto has passed away at age 83.

Jem Aswad Senior Music Editor Astrud Gilberto, the smooth-voiced Brazilian singer whose version of “The Girl From Ipanema” introduced bossa nova to much of the world and is likely one of the most recognized popular hits of all time, has died, according to the Guardian. No cause of death has been reported; she was 83. The daughter of a German father and a Brazilian mother, the singer was born Astrud Evangelina Weinert in Bahia in 1940 and mostly raised in Rio de Janeiro. She married bossa nova pioneer/ singer-guitarist João Gilberto in 1959, and although the marriage lasted only a few years, but she kept his name. In 1963, she joined him on a trip to New York to record the “Getz/Gilberto” album with jazz saxophonist Stan Getz. She ended up singing “Girl From Ipanema” inadvertently: Producer Creed Taylor had wanted to record an English version of the Brazilian song “Garota De Ipanema” and Astrud, whose father taught languages, was the only Brazilian at the session who spoke English. It was the first song she’d ever recorded, but her un-studied, lighthearted take on the song’s unforgettable melody turned it into a monumental international hit, which peaked at No. 5 on the Billboard Hot 100 and won a Grammy for Song Of the Year.

Astrud Gilberto, who was just 22 years old when her lovely, laid-back and sultry vocals on the jazzy bossa nova “The Girl from Ipanema” made the song a massive global hit and one of the most recognizable melodies of the 1960s, died Monday. She was 83.

“The Girl from Ipanema” singer and bossa nova legend Astrud Gilberto has sadly passed away at the age of 83.

The Independent. Astrud was best known for her iconic recording of The Girl From Ipanema. Alongside the famous track, she recorded 16 studio albums and two live records during her music career, which began in the Sixties.