Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Help; Learn to edit; Community portal; Recent changes; Upload file; Special pages
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.
"Desafinado" was originally a response to critics who claimed that the bossa nova genre was created for singers who can't sing. English language lyrics were written by Jon Hendricks and "Jessie Cavanaugh" (a pseudonym used by The Richmond Organisation).
"Bim Bom" (Portuguese pronunciation: [bĩ bõ]) is considered [by whom?] the first bossa nova song. It was composed by João Gilberto around 1956. The song wasn't recorded until July 1958 when Gilberto released it under Odeon Records along with his version of the first produced bossa nova song, "Chega de Saudade", which had been released by Elizete Cardoso earlier that year.
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.
"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 ...
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".
"Wave" (also known as "Vou Te Contar" in Portuguese; "I am going to tell you" in English) is a bossa nova and jazz standard song written by Antônio Carlos Jobim.Recorded as an instrumental on his 1967 album of the same name, its English lyrics were written by Jobim himself later that year.