He was the Brazilian music legend who brought bossa nova to a global audience in a career that lasted more than 60 years. In the past few days, tributes have been flooding in for legendary Brazilian ...

RIO DE JANEIRO, July 8 (Reuters) - Brazilians said goodbye to legendary musician João Gilberto, a founder of bossa nova, ahead of his funeral on Monday afternoon, with an outpouring of grief from some ...

BRASILIA, Sept 6 (Reuters) - Brazilian musician Sergio Mendes, who brought bossa nova to international audiences in the 1960s, died on Friday at the age of 83 in Los Angeles, his family said. In a ...

When Sergio Mendes reflects on the amazing journey he calls life, from his formative years at the forefront of a bossa nova revolution through his Oscar-nominated work on "Rio" to the recent ...

João Gilberto, known as one of the fathers of the Bossa Nova, a musical style that originated in Brazil in the mid-1950s, has died at the age of 88. His son, João Marcelo Gilberto, posted on Facebook ...

In March, the Brazilian style of music known as bossa nova made an unexpected appearance on one of the year’s biggest hip-hop albums: Juice WRLD‘s Death Race for Love. Thank Tommy Brown. During a ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazilian composer and ...

He was 88 years old. LONDON -- Joao Gilberto, one of the pioneers of Bossa Nova, the Brazilian musical genre characterized by a subtle mix of Samba and Jazz, died in Rio de Janeiro on Saturday, ...

One unfortunate outcome of Brazilian bossa nova's overpowering early love affair with jazz is that the 'other musics' from Brazil have not received their due. These three releases challenge that and ...

FILE - Brazilian composer and pianist Joao Donato accepts the best latin jazz album award at the 11th Annual Latin Grammy Awards, Nov. 11, 2010, in Las Vegas. Donato, who helped lay the groundwork for ...