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Bossa nova (Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈbɔsɐ ˈnɔvɐ] ⓘ) is a relaxed style of samba [nb 1] developed in the late 1950s and early 1960s in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. [2] It is mainly characterized by a calm syncopated rhythm with chords and fingerstyle mimicking the beat of a samba groove, as if it was a simplification and stylization on the guitar of the rhythm produced by a samba school band.
"Vivo Sonhando" (a.k.a. "Dreamer", translated literally as "I Live Dreaming") is a bossa nova song from 1962 with words and music by Antônio Carlos Jobim. [1] English lyrics were added later by Gene Lees.
Café Bossa is the debut album by Filipino bossa nova singer Sitti. It was released in the Philippines on January 25, 2006 by Warner Music Philippines . The album spawned four successful singles—"Tattooed on My Mind", "Hey Look at the Sun", " I Didn't Know I Was Looking for Love " and "Para sa Akin".
It is a world-famous bossa nova and jazz standard song. Jobim wrote this piece especially for the Brazilian singer Sylvia Telles . "Dindi" is a reference to a farm named "Dirindi", in Brazil, a place that Jobim and his friend/collaborator Vinicius de Moraes used to visit (according to Helena Jobim, his sister, in her book Antonio Carlos Jobim ...
Desafinado" (a Portuguese word, usually rendered into English as "Out of Tune", or as "Off Key") is a 1959 bossa nova song and jazz standard composed by Antônio Carlos Jobim with lyrics (in Portuguese) by Newton Mendonça.
"O, Lumapit Ka" - Ella del Rosario's solo signature seductive tune, her first mega-hit under her solo career and OctoArts' Canary Label, not under the Hotdog band. The song is a cover of “Só Em Teus Braços”, a bossa nova song first released by João Gilberto in 1960. Although both songs share the same melody, the lyrical contents are ...
Along with Jobim's original compositions, the album features three standards from the Great American Songbook, ("Change Partners", "I Concentrate on You", and "Baubles, Bangles and Beads") arranged in the bossa nova style. Sinatra and Jobim followed up this album with sessions for a second collaboration, titled Sinatra-Jobim.