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  • Bossa nova (Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈbɔsɐ ˈnɔvɐ] ) is a relaxed style of samba developed in the late 1950s and early 1960s in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil...
    26 KB (3,199 words) - 22:20, 16 April 2024
  • Brazil, Bossa Nova & Blues (also released as Brazil Blues and Jazz Impressions of Brazil) is an album by American jazz flautist Herbie Mann recorded in...
    2 KB (153 words) - 03:16, 11 January 2021
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    João Gilberto (category Bossa nova singers)
    June 1931 – 6 July 2019) was a Brazilian guitarist, singer, and composer who was a pioneer of the musical genre of bossa nova in the late 1950s. Around the...
    30 KB (2,890 words) - 19:01, 8 April 2024
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    Lisa Ono (category Bossa nova singers)
    Lisa Ono (小野リサ; born 29 July 1962) is a Brazilian Japanese bossa nova singer. Lisa Ono was born in São Paulo, Brazil, in 1962 but moved with her family to...
    11 KB (1,348 words) - 21:02, 25 February 2024
  • "Soul Bossa Nova" is a popular instrumental, composed and first performed by musician and record producer Quincy Jones. It appeared on his 1962 Big Band...
    6 KB (502 words) - 07:32, 3 March 2024
  • romantic relationship of a couple dancing to the bossa nova, "the dance of love." The bossa nova was a Brazilian music style especially in vogue in the United...
    13 KB (1,334 words) - 10:29, 6 April 2024
  • Brazilian jazz can refer to both a genre, largely influenced by bossa nova and samba, that exists in many nations and the jazz music of Brazil itself....
    2 KB (293 words) - 09:31, 21 April 2024
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    Nara Leão (category Bossa nova singers)
    [ˈnaɾɐ leˈɐ̃w]; January 19, 1942 – June 7, 1989) was a Brazilian bossa nova and MPB (popular Brazilian music) singer and occasional actress. Her husband was...
    6 KB (542 words) - 22:57, 6 April 2024
  • return to the Brazilian influences that first emerged on his early 1960s albums like Right Now, Brazil, Bossa Nova & Blues, Do the Bossa Nova with Herbie...
    3 KB (204 words) - 16:32, 29 May 2023
  • Milton Banana (category Bossa nova drummers)
    Banana (born Antônio de Souza) (23 April 1935 – 22 May 1999) was a Brazilian bossa nova and jazz drummer. A self-taught musician, he is best known for his...
    2 KB (75 words) - 16:08, 7 March 2024
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    Antônio Carlos Jobim (category Bossa nova guitarists)
    one of the great exponents of Brazilian music, Jobim internationalized bossa nova and, with the help of important American artists, merged it with jazz...
    33 KB (3,233 words) - 04:02, 3 April 2024
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    Marcos Valle (category Bossa nova singers)
    September 1943) is a Brazilian singer, songwriter, and record producer. He has produced works in many musical styles, including bossa nova, samba, and fusions...
    11 KB (1,133 words) - 21:52, 21 October 2023
  • One Note Samba (category Bossa nova songs)
    "Samba de uma Nota Só", known in English as "One Note Samba", is a bossa nova and jazz standard song composed by Antônio Carlos Jobim with Portuguese lyrics...
    7 KB (654 words) - 13:32, 29 April 2024
  • Bossa Nova is a 2000 Brazilian-American romantic comedy film directed by Bruno Barreto. It deals with several interwoven stories about people finding and...
    3 KB (164 words) - 20:44, 5 December 2023
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    Astrud Gilberto (category Bossa nova singers)
    Astrud Evangelina Weinert; March 29, 1940 – June 5, 2023) was a Brazilian samba and bossa nova singer and songwriter. She gained international attention in...
    22 KB (1,881 words) - 17:10, 17 February 2024
  • Look up bossa nova in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Bossa nova is a style of music. Bossa Nova or Bossanova may also refer to: Bossa Nova (dance), a...
    2 KB (248 words) - 18:16, 3 December 2022
  • Father of Bossa Nova is an epithet held by several pioneers of bossa nova. It may refer to: João Gilberto (1931–2019), Brazilian musician Johnny Alf (1929–2010)...
    1 KB (131 words) - 17:14, 21 November 2022
  • Bossa Nova Stories is the nineteenth studio album by Brazilian jazz artist Eliane Elias, released on 24 June 2008 by Blue Note Records. The album is a...
    8 KB (480 words) - 21:47, 3 April 2024
  • Bossa nova, nova bossa is the first album recorded by the Brazilian pianist and composer Manfredo Fest. Released on LP in 1963, this work counts on the...
    2 KB (108 words) - 14:37, 15 February 2024
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    Elis Regina (category Bossa nova singers)
    known professionally as Elis Regina (Brazilian Portuguese: [eˈliz ʁeˈʒinɐ]), was a Brazilian singer of Bossa nova, MPB and jazz music. She is also the...
    11 KB (895 words) - 06:59, 15 April 2024
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