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Sitti Katrina Baiddin Navarro-Ramirez (born November 29, 1984 [1] in Las Piñas), known professionally as Sitti, is a Filipino bossa nova singer. [2] After releasing her first album, Café Bossa, in 2006, other bossa nova acts in the Philippines followed. [3]
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.
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".
My Bossa Nova is the second studio album of Philippine bossa nova singer Sitti. It was released by Warner Music Philippines in 2007. Unlike her previous studio album, Café Bossa, this album focused on more recent songs and had very few "traditional" bossa nova songs. Sitti also co-wrote one song, "A Song for Penny Brown".
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.
The album consists entirely of easy listening and bossa nova versions of songs that were written and recorded during the post-punk/new wave era. The band's name is a play on words, new wave and bossa nova being the literal translations, in English and Portuguese respectively, of the French phrase Nouvelle Vague , which is itself a reference to ...
João Gilberto (born João Gilberto do Prado Pereira de Oliveira – Portuguese: [ʒuˈɐ̃w ʒiwˈbɛʁtu]; 10 June 1931 – 6 July 2019) was a Brazilian guitarist, singer, and composer who was a pioneer of the musical genre of bossa nova in the late 1950s.