Bebel Gilberto is walking her dog – a Shih Tzu who looks like it got a bowl cut – around New York City’s West Village, and smoking a joint. Despite her pedigree (her father is multiple Grammy-winning, ...

João Gilberto, a Brazilian singer, guitarist and songwriter considered one of the fathers of the bossa nova genre that gained global popularity in the 1960s and became an iconic sound of the South ...

File - Brazil's Bebel Gilberto performs at the Diana theatre in Guadalajara, Mexico, May 31, 2006. The New York-born Brazilian singer has released “João,” an album in tribute to her late father, the ...

The British Invasion gets all the ink, but in 1964, as the Beatles were upending pop culture, a record by a jazz hit-maker and a Brazilian bossa nova innovator stormed the Grammy Awards and the ...

And the last word in music we'll give to Joao Gilberto, the man who helped make famous "The Girl From Ipanema." (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "THE GIRL FROM IMPANEMA") ASTRUD GILBERTO: (Singing) Tall and tan ...

Joao Gilberto did not just epitomize bossa nova, "The New Thing" that he virtually invented, but he also brought his new, laconic vocal style to Brazilian music. So deeply passionate and idiosyncratic ...

As if to say goodbye, Joao Gilberto emerged from seclusion a few days before his death and had dinner at a restaurant on Rio's Copacabana beach. The musician who gave the world the bossa nova and is ...

I’m a correspondent covering technology in Asia. Here are five things I’ve recently slowed down with. By Meaghan Tobin A prolific pianist, composer and arranger who began recording in the 1950s, he ...

SAO PAULO (AP) — Since the start of her career, New York-born Brazilian singer Bebel Gilberto has put out albums rooted in the South American nation’s rich musical history. And in the sound of her ...

And the last word in music we'll give to Joao Gilberto, the man who helped make famous "The Girl From Ipanema." (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "THE GIRL FROM IMPANEMA") ASTRUD GILBERTO: (Singing) Tall and tan ...