Antônio Carlos Jobim
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Antônio Carlos Brasileiro de Almeida Jobim, also known as Tom Jobim, was a Brazilian composer, pianist, guitarist, songwriter, arranger and singer. Jobim is considered a great exponent of Brazilian mu
Jobim in 1967
Jobim (left) and de Moraes (right) in 1962. The two wrote many successful songs together, including the music for Orfeu da Conceição and The Girl from Ipanema.
Grave of Jobim in the Saint John the Baptist Cemetery, Rio de Janeiro
Statue of Jobim in Ipanema
Bossa nova
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Bossa nova is a relaxed style of samba developed in the late 1950s and early 1960s in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It is mainly characterized by a calm syncopated rhythm with chords and fingerstyle mimicki
Antônio Carlos Jobim
…Brazilian composer, pianist, guitarist, songwriter, arranger and singer. Jobim is considered a great exponent of Brazilian music and one of the fathers of bossa nova for having merged samba with cool jazz in the 1960s as a pioneer of the genre. He is also regarded as one of the most celebrated songwriters of the…
Vinicius de Moraes and Baden Powell at the Teatro da Praia
Jarkko Toivonen performing in 1993