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The Girl From Ipanema: Astrud Gilberto is dead
Brazilian singer Astrud Gilberto, born Astrud Evangelina Weinert and one of the great bossa nova interpreters, died on Monday (June 5) at the age of 83. Her bemused version of…
Astrud Gilberto, known from ‘The Girl from Ipanema’, gave her languid whisper voice to bossa nova
She was the singer of one of the sultry jazz songs ever recorded: ‘The Girl from Ipanema’. With that 1963 hit, 83-year-old Astrud Gilberto, who passed away on Monday evening,…