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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...
    24 KB (2,928 words) - 16:24, 20 August 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
  • 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 (1,333 words) - 18:33, 9 May 2024
  • "Soul Bossa Nova" is a popular instrumental, composed and first performed by American musician Quincy Jones. It appeared on his 1962 Big Band Bossa Nova album...
    6 KB (509 words) - 15:59, 19 July 2024
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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) - 00:57, 9 August 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
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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 (1,186 words) - 09:04, 4 August 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...
    12 KB (1,462 words) - 17:53, 15 July 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) - 07:44, 9 August 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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    Antônio Carlos Jobim (category Bossa nova guitarists)
    jazz in the 1960s to create Bossa nova, with worldwide success. As a result, he is widely regarded as the "father of bossa nova". Jobim was a primary force...
    33 KB (3,217 words) - 00:24, 9 August 2024
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    Carlos Lyra (category Bossa nova singers)
    Barbosa (11 May 1933 – 16 December 2023) was a Brazilian singer, and composer of numerous bossa nova and Música popular brasileira classics. He has also...
    7 KB (911 words) - 05:58, 2 June 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
  • 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
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    Eumir Deodato (category Bossa nova keyboardists)
    genres, such as pop, rock, disco, rhythm and blues, classical, Latin and bossa nova. Deodato has arranged and produced more than 500 records for acts such...
    28 KB (1,914 words) - 16:17, 2 July 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) - 16:36, 20 August 2024
  • 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
  • Só Danço Samba (song) (category Bossa nova songs)
    "Só Danço Samba" (aka "Jazz 'n' Samba") is a bossa nova song composed in 1962 by Antônio Carlos Jobim, with lyrics by Vinicius de Moraes. English lyrics...
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  • Bossa Nova (subtitled: Bossa Nova and the Rise of Brazilian Music in the 1960s) is a 2011 compilation album released by Soul Jazz Records. It was released...
    5 KB (254 words) - 05:09, 27 June 2024
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