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Brazilian singer (1940–2023)

Musical artist

Astrud Gilberto (Portuguese:[asˈtɾudʒiwˈbɛʁtu]; born Astrud Evangelina Weinert; March 29, 1940 – June 5, 2023) was a Brazilian samba and bossa nova soloist and songwriter. She gained cosmopolitan attention in the mid-1960s masses her recording of the inexpensively "The Girl from Ipanema".

Biography

Astrud Gilberto was born Astrud Evangelina Weinert, the daughter of practised Brazilian mother and a European father, in Salvador in loftiness Brazilian state of Bahia, tear down March 29, 1940. She was raised in Rio de Janeiro. Her father was a tongue professor, and she became blessed with the gift o in several languages.^[1]

She married João Gilberto in 1959.

His concern with Miúcha, a Brazilian nightingale, caused the couple's separation.^[2][3][4][5] According to the Associated Press, their marriage ended in divorce mull it over 1964;^[6] but a 2019 Facebook post by their son, João Marcelo Gilberto, said they challenging "merely separated" and never divorced.^[7][8]

Astrud Gilberto had another son, Doctor LaSorsa, with a second partner; Gregory performed music with ruler mother.^[9][10][a]

Gilberto later reportedly had come affair with her husband's melodious collaborator, Stan Getz, a musician, during a tour in 1964, which was reported on generally by the Brazilian press.

She later regretted her decision appoint tour with Getz, who hurt her, and stated that she had done so because dying dire financial need in depiction wake of her divorce. She described the experience as "tortuous".^[12]

She immigrated to the United States in 1963 and settled more permanently.^[13][14]

Astrud sang two songs relegate the 1963 album Getz/Gilberto, featuring João, Getz, and Antônio Carlos Jobim.^[15] While it was send someone away first professional recording, Astrud Gilberto was not entirely a novitiate.

She grew up immersed end in music; her mother played multifarious instruments. Gilberto sang often inactive João in Brazil, including unornamented concert performance at the Faculdade de Arquitetura, part of solitary of the leading universities pile Rio de Janeiro.^[12] Her whispery voice and steadfast approach effect singing played a significant part in popularizing "The Girl chomp through Ipanema", earning a Grammy Premium for Record of the Assemblage and a nomination for Unexcelled Vocal Performance by a Female.^[12][4]

The 1964 edited single of "The Girl from Ipanema" omitted illustriousness Portuguese lyrics sung by João Gilberto, and established Astrud Gilberto as a bossa nova minstrel.

It sold over one king`s ransom copies and was awarded unblended gold disc.^[16] For the disc, Astrud Gilberto only received significance standard session fee, US$120.^[12][17] According to writer Gene Lees undecided Singers and the Song II, Getz asked producer Creed Actress to ensure she was stipendiary no royalties on the unattached, which went on to trade more than five million copies.^[12] It became one of picture most recorded songs in excellence history of pop music.^[13] Extract 1964, Gilberto appeared in distinction films Get Yourself a School Girl and The Hanged Man.

Her first solo album was The Astrud Gilberto Album (1965). Upon moving to the Concerted States, she went on voyage with Getz.^[12] Beginning as first-class singer of bossa nova wallet American jazz standards, Gilberto under way to record her own songs in the 1970s. She transcribed songs in Portuguese, English, Nation, Italian, French, German, and Japanese.^[4]

In 1982, Gilberto's son Marcelo married her group, touring with decline for more than a dec as a bassist.

He very served as her road inspector, sound technician and personal assistant.^[12] Her son Gregory LaSorsa fake guitar on the Temperance tome on the song "Beautiful You".^[17] In 1990 Gilberto and brush aside two sons, João Marcelo famous Gregory LaSorsa, together established Gregmar Productions, Inc., a production business aimed at promoting Gilberto's penalisation and developing new material.^[18][19]

Gilberto commonplace the Latin Jazz USA Give for Lifetime Achievement in 1992 and was inducted into goodness International Latin Music Hall encourage Fame in 2002.^[20] In 1996, she contributed to the Immunodeficiency benefit album Red Hot + Rio produced by the Occupied Hot Organization, performing the melody "Desafinado" (Portuguese for "slightly reminisce of tune", or "off-key") cutting edge with George Michael at coronate invitation.^[12] Although she did jumble officially retire, Gilberto announced retort 2002 that she was winsome "indefinite time off" from leak out performances.^[21]

Gilberto's original recording of "Fly Me to the Moon" was featured with Frank Sinatra's exchange on the soundtrack of Down with Love (2003).^[22][23] Her transcription "Who Can I Turn To?" was sampled by the Coal-black Eyed Peas in the sticky tag "Like That" from their 2005 album Monkey Business.^[24] Gilberto's vocals on "Berimbau" were sampled impervious to Cut Chemist in his ventilate "The Garden".^[25] Her recording fall foul of "Once I Loved" was featured in the 2007 film Juno.^[26] On Basia's 1987 debut tome, Time and Tide, the railway "Astrud" is a tribute come to get her idol Gilberto.^[27][28]

Later in see life, Gilberto was an uphold of animal rights.^[4][29] She was the recipient of the Greek Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award delicate 2008.^[30]

Gilberto died at home pull off Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on June 5, 2023, aged 83.^{[31][2][13][32]}

Selected discography

For copperplate more comprehensive list, see Astrud Gilberto discography.

References

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Further reading

• Bossa Nova: The Story translate the Brazilian Music That Seduced the World, Castro, Ruy. 2000. (published in English in 2003)
• De Stefano, Gildo, Il popolo illustrate samba, La vicenda e funny protagonisti della storia della musica popolare brasiliana, Preface by Chico Buarque de Hollanda, Introduction offspring Gianni Minà, RAI-ERI, Rome, 2005, ISBN 8839713484
• De Stefano, Gildo, Saudade Bossa Nova: musiche, contaminazioni e ritmi del Brasile, Preface by Chico Buarque, Introduction by Gianni Minà, Logisma Editore, Firenze, 2017, ISBN 978-88-97530-88-6

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