Lady from Ipanema singer Astrud Gilberto dies at 83

Brazilian singer Astrud Gilberto, the voice of Bossa Nova whose model of The Lady from Ipanema was a global success within the late Nineteen Sixties, has died on the age of 83, her household says.

Gilberto died on Monday at her house in Philadelphia in america, her granddaughter Sofia Gilberto mentioned on social media.

“Life is gorgeous, because the music says, however I deliver the unhappy information that my grandmother grew to become a star in the present day and is subsequent to my grandfather Joao Gilberto,” the granddaughter wrote.

Astrud was married to Brazilian musician Joao Gilberto, the pioneer composer and songwriter of Bossa Nova from the late Fifties, who died in 2019.

He collaborated with US jazz musician Stan Getz in 1963 on the album Getz/Gilberto that popularised the brand new Brazilian sound worldwide.

Joao Gilberto’s then-wife Astrud carried out the vocals in English, together with the duet The Lady from Ipanema which grew to become the album’s main hit.

Getz/Gilberto received three Grammy Awards together with Album of the Yr, the primary time a jazz album acquired the accolade.

Her first solo album was The Astrud Gilberto Album, launched in 1965 and that includes Antonio Carlos Jobim.

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