Astrud Gilberto, bossa nova singer of The Girl from Ipanema, dies aged 83

[rogerballard]

Source: The Guardian

Astrud Gilberto, whose dreamy interpretation of The Girl from Ipanema became the most popular version of the song, has died aged 83.

Paul Ricci, a collaborator with Gilberto, confirmed the news on social media, writing that he had been asked to announce it by Gilberto’s son Marcelo. “She was an important part of ALL that is Brazilian music in the world and she changed many lives with her energy,” he added.

Born in 1940 in the Brazilian state of Bahia and raised in Rio de Janeiro, Astrud Weinert married musician João Gilberto in 1959. In 1963, she accompanied him on a trip to New York where he would record with jazz artist Stan Getz and fellow Brazilian bossa nova star Antônio Carlos Jobim. The session’s producer wanted an English-language singer to help The Girl from Ipanema cross over to a US audience, and Astrud – who had no previous recording experience – was the only person who could speak it.

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/jun/06/astrud-gilberto-bossa-nova-singer-of-the-girl-from-ipanema-dies-aged-83

[ancianita]

1. A beautiful voice of Latin music. RIP, Astrud.

[Walleye]

4. Good choice, excellent recording

[Walleye]

2. "Only trust your heart". She and Stan Getz really had some thing going. I love this song

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[BradBo]

15. Omg Stan Getz and her are amazing.

[progressoid]

31. Musically yes.

In real life, Getz was an A-hole to her.

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/features/astrud-gilberto-girl-from-ipanema-b2006879.html

‘He made sure that she got nothing’: The sad story of Astrud Gilberto, the face of bossa nova

[BumRushDaShow]

3. Oh no!

I grew up with parents who had various Stan Getz bossa nova records playing in the house (still have a couple in the basement in a crate), where the Gilbertos (Astrud & João) performed on some of the songs including the Getz Au Go Go one.

R.I.P. and thank you for contributing to my inherent love of bossa nova and other Brazilian-Portugese music.

[maxsolomon]

18. dig them out.

old vinyl is a lot of fun.

[BumRushDaShow]

21. I've had them out not long ago

Kept them in a crate for when I moved to where I am now. During my younger years, I had put together a good "budge audiophile" system that got tied into my home theater. I have a bunch of my dad's old records (he had Miles Davis, Horace Silver, BB King, Stan Getz, Ramsey Lewis, etc). I never got chance to find a good place to put it all back together after I moved (too many other hobbies going at the moment ).

Way back when I worked at my college radio station, I used to go into their album library and dig similar ones out to run over the air and got lots of "wow thank you" calls!

[panader0]

27. i had a Getz Gilberto album back in the 60"s

[rogerballard]

5. Summer Samba So Nice

[pecosbob]

6. I was an Ike baby...this is the soundtrack of my childhood

[chia]

10. Same. I was born a few months before JFK's victory. Three songs remind me of my early childhood,

and my mom and dad's vinyl records. A Taste of Honey, Moon River, and The Girl from Ipanema. There's something about these that takes me to memories I can't quite remember but know in my bones.

[Obvious85]

7. Basia wrote a beautiful song about Astrud

one of my favorite songs from the 80's: [link:

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[marble falls]

8. Seems like I lose one more high point from my youth every single day. For some reason this ...

... touches more than most. As a 16 year old I had such a crush on her and I didn't even know anything about her past her voice. I had no interest in the Ipanema girl, I wanted the girl with that voice, that emotion in her voice. I'll be a little sadder today. Thanks for the news, even though it pinches the heart of a 15 year old I used to be.

[leftyladyfrommo]

9. They are all starting to die. Depressing. nt

[maxsolomon]

19. About a 150,000 every day.

Gets everyone. Always has.

[orangecrush]

11. Her spirit remains

[CTyankee]

12. My mother took me to Rio the year before Astrud's Boy from Ipanema hit the U.S.

I heard bossa nova in Rio and was mesmerized. Rio was also mesmerizing. I thought it was more beautiful than London or Paris, where my mother had taken me the year before.

I had a CD of Astrud singing that song which I used to play in the car. Sadly, my newer car doesn't have a CD player and that music is lost to me!

[maxsolomon]

20. Rip the CD to your computer, drag the file on your phone

connect phone to car. Voila!

[CTyankee]

22. How do I "rip" the CD to the computer?

[maxsolomon]

23. Well, it may be tough now if you don't have a CD drive

I still have an old Macbook with one. Pop it in, iTunes opens up, select import.

https://www.aarp.org/home-family/personal-technology/info-2022/copying-cds.html

No CD drive, it is nigh on impossible!

[CTyankee]

24. I don't, sad to say. It's one of life's tragedies...

[GenThePerservering]

30. You can probably download the music files

from Spotify or Amazon.

[CTyankee]

33. Oh, that will work! Thank you!

[thatcrowwoman]

13. Safe home, Astrud, and thank you for the music.

🕯️💫🕊thatcrowwoman

[BradBo]

14. Love Bossa Nova, I've played that so hundreds of times.

[Deb]

16. I can't recall another voice sounding like a cornet.

Sympathies to her family and friends

[Journeyman]

17. "Corcovado" is my favorite by her. Such a beautiful voice . . .

[panader0]

28. My favorite too. spent some time learning to play it on the guitar.

[LudwigPastorius]

25. I loved what she brought to pop music in the U.S.

Early 60s radio was full of overly-emoting, vibrato-heavy pop singers.

Astrud had a relaxed, cool time feel and a straight forward approach to melodies that was needed to counteract the prevalent bombast.

Descanse em paz

[area51]

26. RIP. She had such a beautiful voice.

[Retrograde]

29. There's a youtube post analyzing the song

and going into considerable detail about the nuances of bossa nova vs other forms of jazz, and how the song was slightly modified by Getz for the American market. Unfortunately, I stumbled on it by accident while going down another chain of links, so I can't find it now. If anyone else has seen it, I'd love to get a link - it was very interesting to this musical lay person.

[BeyondGeography]

32. RIP...we were blessed to have her here

[rogerballard]

34. One Note Samba