Bossa nova was developed in Brazil in the 1950s, combining jazz and samba and it typically features classical acoustic guitars with nylon strings. The highly-danceable music meets one of metal's most ...
LOS ANGELES — 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 ...
Eydie Gorme, who died on Saturday at the age of 84 in Las Vegas after a long illness, will be remembered musically for much more than her best-selling 1963 dance single “Blame It on the Bossa Nova.” ...
Back in April, Willow turned heads with a pivot to pop-punk music. After teaming up with Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker, the singer ushered in a new era of electric guitar-heavy music written with ...
In 1964, "The Girl From Ipanema" put bossa nova on the charts in the U.S. The song was composed by the godfather of the bossa nova, Antonio Carlos Jobim, and features the languid, lush, lovely ...