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RIP João Gilberto

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06 July 2019, 08:42 PM
wtg
RIP João Gilberto
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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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07 July 2019, 07:42 AM
jon-nyc
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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07 July 2019, 04:19 PM
LL
What an influence that song was on the then current music scene.


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08 July 2019, 03:57 PM
CHAS
A lot of vinyl LPs were worn out.


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09 July 2019, 10:29 AM
big al
Makes me recall Antônio Carlos Jobim. Hard to believe he's been gone 25 years now.

Big Al


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11 July 2019, 02:21 PM
Daniel
quote:
Originally posted by wtg:
https://www.npr.org/2019/07/06...ossa-nova-dies-at-88


"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.