RIO DE JANEIRO — A founder of Bossa Nova music has died in Brazil after fighting prostate cancer. He was 80. A hospital near Sao Paulo said Alf died Thursday evening. Pianist Johnny Alf was called the ...

The French producers' second album of 80s covers in a bossa nova style tackles Billy Idol's "Dancing With Myself" and Bauhaus' "Bella Lugosi's Dead", among other new wave and post-punk classics. Save ...

BUENOS AIRES – Two burgeoning Latin American production forces, Bossa Nova Films and Montevideo’s Salado Media will team to produce relationship drama “Primavera” (Spring). Deal was closed Sunday at ...

Johnny Alf, an influential Brazilian songwriter, pianist and singer whose delicately swinging music was a precursor to the bossa nova, died on March 4 in Santo Andre, Brazil, just outside Sao Paulo.

Johnny Alf, an influential Brazilian songwriter, pianist and singer whose delicately swinging music was a precursor to the bossa nova, died on March 4 in Santo André, Brazil, just outside São Paulo.

Johnny Alf, a Brazilian pianist and singer credited with inventing Bossa Nova, has died. He was 80... Alf died Thursday in a Sao Paulo hospital of multiple organ failure after a fight with prostate ...

RIO DE JANEIRO—A founder of Bossa Nova music has died in Brazil after fighting prostate cancer. He was 80. Pianist Johnny Alf was called the “true father of Bossa Nova” by Ruy Castro, who wrote a ...