"When we were finished performing the song, Joao turned to Stan, and said something like: "Tomorrow Astrud sing on record. ’ Later on, while rehearsing with Stan, as they were in the midst of going over the song The Girl From Ipanema, Joao casually asked me to join in, and sing a chorus in English, after he had just sung the first chorus in Portuguese. "I begged him to tell me what it was, but he adamantly refused, and would just say: ‘Wait and see. In a 2002 interview with friends posted on her web site Astrud Gilberto remembered her husband saying he had a surprise for her at the recording studio. But Getz/Gilberto producer Creed Taylor and others thought they could expand the record’s appeal by including both Portuguese and English language vocals.
The Girl From Ipanema, the wistful ballad written by Antonio Carlos Jobim and Vinicius de Moraes, was already a hit in South America.
He did not provide additional details.īorn in Salvador, Bahia and raised in Rio de Janeiro, Gilberto became an overnight, unexpected superstar in 1964, thanks to knowing just enough English to be recruited by the makers of Getz/Gilberto, the classic bossa nova album featuring saxophonist Stan Getz and her then-husband, singer-songwriter-guitarist Joao Gilberto. Musician Paul Ricci, a family friend, confirmed that she died Monday. 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.
0 kommentar(er)
