If you have been to Rio de Janeiro’ beaches, this probably sounds familiar: samba music drifting from a nearby kiosk, ...

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Not Quite the 'Girl From Ipanema', a Fur Seal's Rare Appearance on Rio's Famous Beach Turns Heads RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Short, and dark, and young, and tired, the seal on Ipanema was basking ...

Astrud Gilberto recorded 19 albums in her career, but she had little professional music experience when she turned "The Girl from Ipanema" -- the now-classic song by Tom Jobim and Vinicius de ...

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 ...

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil—Satin-voiced Brazilian songstress Astrud Gilberto, who died at 83, shot to fame in the 1960s with “The Girl from Ipanema,” the song that did more than any other to ...

The Brazilian singer died at home in Philadelphia where she had lived since the 1960s Rio de Janeiro: Astrud Gilberto, the Brazilian singer whose soft, beguiling voice made "The Girl from Ipanema ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Astrud Gilberto, the Brazilian singer, songwriter and entertainer whose off-hand, English-language cameo on “The Girl from Ipanema” made her a worldwide voice of bossa nova ...

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 the age of 83 ...

Astrud Gilberto, the Brazilian singer who The Girl from Ipanema a worldwide sensation in the 1960s, has died at age 83, her family said. “I come bearing the sad news that my grandmother became a ...