Astrud Gilberto
Astrud Gilberto's voice is certainly more important in the current Latin
jazz singer and most representative of the "bossa nova" style emerged in the
wake of the Brazilian people, and that connects to the best of the Latin
tradition of swing.
She began singing almost by accident in 1963. Joao Gilberto, her husband at
that time and who would take the surname, Stan Getz and Antonio Carlos Jobim in
New York were recorded for the Verve label the landmark album "Getz /
Gilberto", a indisputable references when it came to be called "samba jazz".
Astrud served as a translator between Brazilians and Americans when producer
Creed Taylor, later creator of the label "CT", suggested that the version of
"Garota de Ipanema" ( The Girl from Ipanema, the most famous piece of all time
of bossa nova) incorporate an English part, and suggested that the Astrud sing.
It was his dedication and the beginning of a brilliant career as a singer, both
jazz and Brazilian themes and movie themes, begun in 1965 with "The Astrud
Gilberto Album". Recorded with saxophonist Stan Getz and with Gil Evans,
Stanley Turrentine , Quincy Jones, Walter Wanderley, James Last and his own
group.