Perhaps best known worldwide from the 1960s jazz song "The Girl From Ipanema," which describes a "tall and tan and young and lovely" who who walks "like a samba," the Ipanema neighborhood of Brazil’s ...

Brazilian singer Astrud Gilberto, who in her 20s recorded “The Girl from Ipanema” and became an international star, has died, according to social media posts from her granddaughter and on behalf of ...

More than half a century after her bikini-clad body inspired a song about the Brazilian beach where she was a regular, the original "Girl From Ipanema" continues to stir curiosity. Helo Pinheiro was a ...

U.S. News Insider Tip: At the end of the day, go to Arpoador at the far end of Ipanema near Copacabana to watch the sunset next to the Dois Irmãos (Two Brothers Mountains). Locals clap as the last ...

Astrud Gilberto, the Brazilian bossa nova singer best known for The Girl from Ipanema, has died aged 83. One of Brazil's biggest stars of the 1960s and 70s, she recorded 16 albums and worked with ...

“I do not want to leave this place,” I scribbled in my journal the night we flew home. I meant it. Rio de Janeiro has that effect on you. It’s not just the raw natural beauty–though the cinematic ...

Tall and tan and young and lovely, the girl from Ipanema goes running – this time with the Olympic torch. Helô Pinheiro, 71, the woman who was immortalized by the 1960s bossa nova classic “The Girl ...

Tall and tan and young and lovely The girl from Ipanema goes walking and When she passes, each one she passes goes “ahhh.” In the 1960s, Brazil gave the world the bossa nova, a musical style based on ...

Singer had no previous recording experience when she sang a defining song of Brazilian culture in 1963 Astrud Gilberto, whose dreamy interpretation of The Girl from Ipanema became the most popular ...

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, has died at 83. Musician ...