This summer, all eyes will be on Rio de Janeiro—a city evoked for most outsiders in the smooth sounds of Bossa Nova, a phenomenon which swept the world in the ‘60s. Check out this list for the ...

As a composer, producer, keyboardist and vocalist, Sergio Mendes helped pioneer the bossa nova movement and popularize Brazilian music globally with his band, Brasil 66. In his over 60-year career, ...

I thought Sitti singing her bossa nova tunes was an oddity. I said it was a fad that couldn’t last. I was wrong. But then no one could have thought that an old form of Latin music could give the Pinoy ...

Brazilian singer and composer Luciana Souza never seems to have known a day without music. She's the daughter of musicians, and Brazil's homegrown music — bossa nova — provided the soundtrack to her ...

If you were a jazz singer in the mid-sixties, chances are you recorded a bossa nova album. It might have been great, it might have been terrible, but it most likely fell somewhere in-between. You may ...

Nobody is sure just what it is, or even what its name implies: according to various experts, the Portuguese slang expression bossa nova can mean “the latest thing” or “the new beat” or “the new ...

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Eydie Gorme, the popular nightclub vocalist and half of the longtime musical partnership Steve & Eydie, died in a Las Vegas hospital Saturday after an undisclosed illness. She was 84 years old.