Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Astrud Gilberto backstage at New York City's Birdland Jazz Club in 1964. Popsie Randolph/Michael Ochs Archives via Getty Images ...

Sérgio Mendes, the Brazilian bossa nova impresario and pianist who helped popularize the genre in the ‘60s and toured with Herb Alpert and Frank Sinatra, has died. The recording artist died ...

He was the Brazilian music legend who brought bossa nova to a global audience in a career that lasted more than 60 years. In the past few days, tributes have been flooding in for legendary Brazilian ...

On the 50th anniversary of the Bossa Nova, Jon Lusk charts its rise, from Rio's beaches to a cultural force that shaped politics and fashion If there's one style of music that people everywhere ...

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RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazilian composer and pianist João Donato, who helped lay the groundwork for bossa nova but throughout his career defied confinement to any single genre, died Monday. He was 88.

Astrud Gilberto didn’t set out to be an ambassador of bossa nova, the laid-back Brazilian musical genre with rhythms recognizable to music lovers around the world. According to Gilberto, who died on ...