Helo Pinheiro was a 17-year-old fixture on the Rio beach ("tall and tan and young and lovely") in 1962, when she caught the eye of composer Antonio Carlos Jobim, who along with poet Vinicius De Moraes ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Chauffeured in a classic Porsche, the Brazilian beauty steps out into 1960s Rio de Janeiro. The pastel pastiche is easy on the eyes, and so is the pin-up girl tracing twirls as a ...

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 age 83.

Nearly everyone can hum at least a few lines of the famous bossa nova classic, “The Girl From Ipanema.” But most don’t know the story of the girl who inspired the song by lyricist Vinicius de Moraes, ...

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 ...

After a three-year hiatus, Ipanema sandals has returned to the U.S. market with a new wholesale and retail strategy. According to Kate Minner, chief marketing officer of Ipanema’s parent company ...

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Astrud Gilberto, the Brazilian singer and songwriter whose off-hand, English-language cameo on The Girl from Ipanema made her a worldwide voice of bossa nova, has died at age 83. Her granddaughter ...

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 ...

She was a bossa super-nova. Astrud Gilberto, the bossa nova singer most famous for her recording of “The Girl From Ipanema,” widely viewed as the unofficial cultural anthem of Brazil, has died at age ...