João Gilberto, whose chiffon-soft vocals, romantic acoustic guitar arrangements and intoxicating rhythms helped gain worldwide exposure for bossa-nova composers and their songs starting in 1959, died July 6. He was 88.
The bossa nova had been evolving in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, since 1957, when Antonio Carlo Jobim, Carlos Lyra, Sylvia Telles, Johnny Alf,…
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