Blame it on the Beatles. That’s how Brazilian-born musician and composer Orlando Haddad, 61, explains his leap from Beethoven to rock. “I studied classical piano from the age of eight,” says Haddad, a ...

Eliane Elias plays City Winery on April 16. When bossa nova first swept the world in 1964, Eliane Elias was four years old in a musically inclined family in Sao Paolo, the perfect place for the music ...

Astrud Gilberto, the Brazilian singer, songwriter and entertainer whose off-hand, English-language cameo on "The Girl from Ipanema" made her a worldwide voice of bossa nova, has died at age ...

Astrud Gilberto, the Brazilian singer who took bossa nova to the top of the charts with her famous version of “The Girl from Ipanema,” has died. She was 83. Her son, Marcelo, confirmed the news to The ...

A group of performers play instruments and sing. The performance was part of a Bossa Nova Concert commemorating Black History Month. (Robyn Christensen) The Harold B. Lee Library celebrated Black ...