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Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Composer · Pianist
Antonio Carlos Jobim
Composer, pianist and arranger from Rio de Janeiro. He wrote the songs bossa nova is sung in, and the world has hummed them ever since.
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- Vinicius de MoraesThe poet and the composer met in 1956, for the play Orfeu da Conceição, and went on to write Chega de Saudade, Garota de Ipanema and a long run of songs. For Orfeu Negro they wrote three songs over the telephone while they were apart.
- Getz and GilbertoStan Getz, João Gilberto and Jobim at the piano, in New York on 18 and 19 March 1963. Astrud Gilberto sang the English verses of Garota de Ipanema; the record won the Grammy for Album of the Year.
- Sabiá, with Chico BuarqueThe song with words by Chico Buarque that won the Festival Internacional da Canção in Rio in 1968. The two were photographed together at the festival that October.
- Orfeu NegroMarcel Camus’s film of 1959, from the play Jobim and Vinicius wrote three years before. The score is by Luiz Bonfá and Jobim, and A Felicidade, by Jobim and Vinicius, opens it.