Nobody is sure just what it is, or even what its name implies: according to various experts, the Portuguese slang expression bossa nova can mean “the latest thing” or “the new beat” or “the new ...

Sérgio Mendes, the Brazilian-born musician who brought bossa nova music to a global audience in the 1960s, died on Thursday, Sept. 5, in a Los Angeles hospital. He was 83. The renowned musician’s ...

João Gilberto, a Brazilian singer, guitarist and songwriter considered one of the fathers of the bossa nova genre that gained global popularity in the 1960s and became an iconic sound of the South ...