Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Beloved bossa nova producer, composer, pianist and song interpreter Sérgio Mendes has died at 83. The legendary Brazilian ...

LOS ANGELES — Sérgio Mendes, the Brazilian bossa nova impresario and pianist who helped popularize the genre in the ‘60s and toured with Herb Alpert and Frank Sinatra, has died. The recording artist ...

Astrud Gilberto backstage at New York City's Birdland Jazz Club in 1964. Popsie Randolph/Michael Ochs Archives via Getty Images Astrud Gilberto didn’t set out to be an ambassador of bossa nova, the ...

The two time Grammy winner died on Thursday, Sept. 5, in a Los Angeles hospital Chrissy Hampton/Getty Sérgio Mendes, the Brazilian-born musician who brought bossa nova music to a global audience in ...

Luciana Souza's new album features pop standards set to a Brazilian bossa nova beat. The Brazilian-born singer has an intimate familiarity with bossa nova. But since her last album — in 2005 — she has ...

On the 50th anniversary of the Bossa Nova, Jon Lusk charts its rise, from Rio's beaches to a cultural force that shaped politics and fashion If there's one style of music that people everywhere ...

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Em comemoração ao Dia Nacional da Bossa Nova, celebrado em 25 de janeiro, os veículos da Empresa Brasil de Comunicação (EBC) exibem uma programação especial dedicada a um dos movimentos mais marcantes ...

Yet to its credit BBC Four, given a substantial hour-long space for documentary exploration, desists from making things quite that simple. The Girl from Ipanema: Brazil, Bossa Nova and the Beach, ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazilian composer and pianist João Donato, who helped lay the groundwork for bossa nova but throughout his career defied confinement to any single genre, died Monday. He was 88.