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Jazz Samba was released in April 1962, and by September it had entered the Billboard pop album chart. By March of the following year the album had moved to number one. The term "bossa nova" was not used until later. The album remained on the charts for seventy weeks, and Getz soon beat John Coltrane in a DownBeat poll.
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.
Gal Costa was born Maria da Graça Costa Penna Burgos on 26 September 1945, in the city of Salvador, the capital of the state of Bahia, Brazil. [4] [5] Her mother, Mariah Costa Penna, separated from her father, Arnaldo Burgos, after discovering he had a second family in another city. [3] Arnaldo Burgos died when Gal was 14 years old. [6]
That same year she was invited to perform in a show at Grupo Universitário Hebraico, with Carlos Lyra, Roberto Menescal among others, called "Carlos Lyra, Sylvia Telles e os seus Bossa nova" (Carlos Lyra, Sylvia Telles and their Bossa Nova"), which is thought to be the first use of the expression "bossa nova" ("the new thing"). It was the same ...
A year later he started a guitar school with Carlos Lyra. He formed one of the earliest bossa nova bands with Bebeto, Henrique, João Mário, and Luís Carlos Vinhas. [2] He spread bossa nova through performances and concerts in the late 1950s and early 1960s, such as the I Festival de Samba Session. [2]
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He was born in Rio de Janeiro as one of triplets and formed a band with his brothers in his youth. At 16 he had a national hit with Chora Tua Tristeza. In 1962 he was in a bossa nova concert at Carnegie Hall , and later he toured with Stan Getz and Sérgio Mendes .