RIO DE JANEIRO - "Tall and tan and young and lovely..." You've heard of her. The Girl From Ipanema. You might have come across the bossa nova classic while on hold on the phone, during a long elevator ...

Brazilian singer Astrud Gilberto, whose beguiling rendition of "The Girl From Ipanema" made her world famous, has died at 83. (Story aired on All Things Considered on June 6, 2023.) ASTRUD GILBERTO: ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Chauffeured in a classic Porsche, the Brazilian beauty steps out into 1960s Rio de Janeiro. The pastel pastiche is easy on the eyes, and so is the pin-up girl tracing twirls as a ...

RIO DE JANIERO – The song has played all over the world, for a half-century, drifting from car radios and kitchen stereos and elevator speakers and Frank Sinatra’s lips. The sweet, simple, serene ...

“The Girl from Ipanema” has won a gold medal in music streaming following the opening ceremony of the Summer Olympics. Spotify says the song was streamed more than 40,000 times a day after the ...

Nearly everyone can hum at least a few lines of the famous bossa nova classic, “The Girl From Ipanema.” But most don’t know the story of the girl who inspired the song by lyricist Vinicius de Moraes, ...

Getting the rights to use the melody of Jobim's 1960s classic was no picnic, but it was worth it, as the single is quickly rising at American Top 40 stations, even as it stands as one of the Brazilian ...

BRASILIA, June 6 (Reuters) - Brazilian singer Astrud Gilberto, the voice of Bossa Nova whose soft and dreamy version of "The Girl from Ipanema" was an international success in the 1960s, has died at ...

NEW YORK (AP) ''The Girl from Ipanema'' has won a gold medal in music streaming following the opening ceremony of the Summer Olympics. Spotify says the song was streamed more than 40,000 times a day ...

NEW YORK (AP) — “The Girl from Ipanema” has won a gold medal in music streaming following the opening ceremony of the Summer Olympics. Spotify says the song was streamed more than 40,000 times a day ...