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On Basia's 1987 debut album, Time and Tide, the track "Astrud" is a tribute to her idol Gilberto. [27] [28] Later in her life, Gilberto was an advocate of animal rights. [4] [29] She was the recipient of the Latin Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2008. [30] Gilberto died at home in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on June 5, 2023, aged 83. [31 ...
Astrud Gilberto, was a Brazilian samba and bossa nova singer and songwriter. Her discography consists of sixteen studio albums and two live albums on Verve Records, CTI Records, Perception Records, Audio Fidelity Records, Denon Records, Polygram Records, Pony Canyon and Magya Productions, as well as one music DVD on Coqueiro Verde Records.
Gilberto first married the singer Astrud Weinert, [21] with whom he collaborated on the hit recording of "The Girl from Ipanema"; the couple had a son called João Marcelo. [22] They divorced, and he later married the singer Miúcha (died 2018); they had two daughters, including Bebel Gilberto .
Astrud Gilberto and Getz appear as themselves and perform the song in the 1964 film Get Yourself a College Girl. Frank Sinatra recorded the song with Jobim in 1967 for their album Francis Albert Sinatra & Antônio Carlos Jobim. [14] Ella Fitzgerald recorded it for her two-disc set of Brazilian music Ella Abraça Jobim, released by Pablo Today ...
The AllMusic review by Jason Ankney awarded the album three and a half stars and said that the album "proves one of Astrud Gilberto's most consistent and sublime efforts, artfully straddling the division between Brazilian bossa nova and American sunshine pop...the songs possess a lithe, shimmering beauty that perfectly complements Gilberto's feathery vocals".
Other recordings include those by Chet Baker (1966), The Everly Brothers, the Box Tops, The Shadows (instrumental), Joanie Sommers, Dinah Shore (all in 1967), Astrud Gilberto (1969), Fred Frith (1997), Fountains of Wayne (2003), Gwyneth Herbert and Will Rutter on their 2003 album First Songs, Dwight Yoakam (2003), and Laura Cantrell on her 2008 ...
Fourteen members of a small religious sect in Australia have been found guilty of the manslaughter of an 8-year-old girl, who died after they withheld insulin needed to treat her diabetes because ...
Gilberto with Turrentine is an album by Brazilian samba and bossa nova singer Astrud Gilberto and American saxophonist Stanley Turrentine featuring performances recorded in 1971 released on the CTI label.