File - Brazil's Bebel Gilberto performs at the Diana theatre in Guadalajara, Mexico, May 31, 2006. The New York-born Brazilian singer has released “João,” an album in tribute to her late father, the ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Brazilians said goodbye to legendary musician João Gilberto, a founder of bossa nova, ahead of his funeral on Monday afternoon, with an outpouring of grief from some of the ...

El brasileño Joao Gilberto, fallecido este sábado a los 88 años, era el último padre vivo de la bossa nova, ritmo sincopado de la samba pero mezclado con la frescura del jazz que se convirtió en ...

His name is Joao Gilberto. And he is, simultaneously, a man and a myth. Mention bossa nova and it is his name, along with that of Antonio Carlos Jobim, that immediately comes to mind. His pairing with ...

Born João Gilberto do Prado Pereira de Oliveira on June 10, 1931, in the town of Juázeiro in the northeastern state of Bahia, Brazil. His father was a wealthy merchant who insisted that all of his ...

RIO DE JANEIRO – Joao Gilberto, a Brazilian singer, guitarist and songwriter considered one of the fathers of the bossa nova genre that gained global popularity in the 1960s and became an iconic sound ...

WASHINGTON — João Gilberto, a Brazilian guitarist and singer who helped define the subtle, swaying, and quietly sensuous style of music known as bossa nova, which became a worldwide craze in the 1960s ...

The Brazilian singer and composer João Gilberto, one of the pioneers of bossa nova, died in Rio de Janeiro on Saturday, according to Agencia Brasil, the country’s official news agency. He was 88. The ...

SAO PAULO (AP) — Since the start of her career, New York-born Brazilian singer Bebel Gilberto has put out albums rooted in the South American nation’s rich musical history. And in the sound of her ...

I’m a correspondent covering technology in Asia. Here are five things I’ve recently slowed down with. By Meaghan Tobin A prolific pianist, composer and arranger who began recording in the 1950s, he ...