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unusual facts about Bossa Nova


Clarisse Albrecht

Growing up, Albrecht was listening to a lot of different musical genre : soul, R&B, Funk, Pop, Brazilian music (MPB, Bossa-Nova) and African music such as Makossa, Marabentta or Congolese Rumba.


Carlos do Carmo

While fado remains at the core of his music, do Carmo has used Frank Sinatra-style and French-style pop balladry and Brazilian bossa nova to give his music its distinct flavor.

Honeysuckle Rose Aquarela Do Brasil

Honeysuckle Rose Aquarela Do Brasil is a 1969 bossa nova-style jazz LP album by Elis Regina and Toots Thielemans on the Fontana Special sublabel of Philips Records.

Juazeiro

Juazeiro is the birthplace of Brazil and Barcelona footballer Dani Alves, as well as the precursor of the bossa nova movement, guitarist/songwriter João Gilberto.

Maylee Todd

Todd’s music covers a wide variety of genres including pop, indie-rock, soul, jazz and bossa nova.

Summer Samba

Summer Samba (also known as So Nice or its original Portuguese title, "Samba de Verão") is a 1964 bossa nova song by Brazilian composer Marcos Valle, with English-language lyrics by Norman Gimbel; the original Portuguese lyrics came from Paulo Sérgio Valle, brother to the composer.

The Selmanaires

Their dynamic is based on a mutual love of the hypnotic sounds of Can and Kraftwerk, Brazilian Bossa Nova and Tropicalia, and '60s pop from all around the globe.


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Bossacucanova

Among the group's permanent members is Márcio Menescal, son of bossa nova pioneer Roberto Menescal, who appeared on the Brasilidade album, DJ Marcelinho DaLua and the record producer and sound engineer Alex Moreira.

Ella Joyce

Other stage plays in which she has appeared include "Bossa Nova", Last Street Play (The Mighty Gents), Checkmates, Brothers, Sisters, Husbands and Wives, Don't Get God Started!, Louis and Ophelia, Split Second, Home, Not a single Blade of Grass, Odessa, "Barefoot In The Park", and Anna Lucasta.

Getz Au Go Go

Getz Au Go Go is a live album by American saxophonist Stan Getz and his quartet, featuring bossa nova singer Astrud Gilberto.

Gilberto with Turrentine

Gilberto with Turrentine is an album by Brazilian samba and bossa nova singer Astrud Gilberto and American saxophonist Stanley Turrentine featuring performances recorded in 1971 released on the CTI label.

Jazz Samba

Getz won the Grammy for Best Jazz Performance of 1963 for the track "Desafinado", and went on to make many other bossa-nova recordings, most notably with João Gilberto and Astrud Gilberto, and most famously "The Girl From Ipanema".

Josep Pedrals i Urdàniz

He has also contributed to various mass media, including the Avui newspaper, Catalunya Ràdio or the magazines El Temps, Paper of Vidre and Bossa Nova.

Luiz Eça

Trained as a classical pianist, Eça created a formal, but stunning approach to bossa nova classics such as "The Hill" by Antonio Carlos Jobim and works by Edu Lobo.

Nara Leão

While still a teenager, she met a number of singers and composers who took part in Bossa Nova's musical revolution in the late 1950s and early 1960s, including Roberto Menescal, Carlos Lyra, Ronaldo Bôscoli, João Gilberto, Vinicius de Moraes and Antônio Carlos Jobim.

Nova Bossa Nova

Nova Bossa Nova was a Brazilian jazz ensemble consisting of Claudio Roditi on trumpet, Bob Mintzer on tenor sax, Joe Ford on alto sax, and Eddie Monteiro on vocals.

Outside the Skyline

Outside the Skyline features vocal performances by Migs's main vocalist, Lisa Shaw, as well as Aya, disco legend Evelyn "Champagne" King, reggae artists Capleton, Half Pint and Freddie McGregor, with Meshell Ndegeocello, Berlin-based singer Georg Levin, and bossa nova artist Bebel Gilberto.

Sitti in the Mix: The Dense Modesto Remixes

Instead of a bossa nova sound, Sitti collaborated with Myx Philippines DJ Dense Modesto to make her songs into dance tracks.

So Nice

"Summer Samba", also known as "So Nice", a 1966 bossa nova song