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posted 06 July 2019 08:42 PM
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João Gilberto, one of the principal architects of the Brazilian musical style bossa nova, has died at his home in Rio de Janeiro, according to a Facebook post by his son. João Marcelo Gilberto wrote that his father, who was 88 years old, died following an undisclosed illness.




https://youtu.be/c5QfXjsoNe4

https://www.npr.org/2019/07/06...ossa-nova-dies-at-88


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posted 07 July 2019 07:42 AMHide Post
Oh wow. Literally a year ago this week I took Jules and Rachel to dinner at the cafe in Ipanema where he wrote that song.


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posted 07 July 2019 04:19 PMHide Post
What an influence that song was on the then current music scene.


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posted 08 July 2019 03:57 PMHide Post
A lot of vinyl LPs were worn out.


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posted 09 July 2019 10:29 AMHide Post
Makes me recall Antônio Carlos Jobim. Hard to believe he's been gone 25 years now.

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posted 11 July 2019 02:21 PMHide Post
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"Rio de Janeiro was ground zero of the country's cultural explosion; Gilberto, composer Antonio Carlos Jobim and poet Vinicius de Moraes were the key architects of a culture shift that forever changed their country's musical point of reference."

Interesting. I did not know this.
 
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