Garota de ipanema stan getz biography

Song by Antônio Carlos Jobim

"Garota de Ipanema" (Portuguese pronunciation:[ɡaˈɾotɐdʒipɐ̃ˈnemɐ]), "The Girl from Ipanema", is a Brazilianbossa nova and jazz song.

It was a worldwide hit in the mid-1960s and won a Grammy for Record of the Year in 1965. It was written in 1962, with music by Antônio Carlos Jobim and Portuguese lyrics by Vinícius de Moraes. English lyrics were written later by Norman Gimbel.^[5]

The first commercial recording was in 1962, by Pery Ribeiro.

Garota de ipanema stan getz biography

The Stan Getz recording featuring the vocal debut of Astrud Gilberto became an international hit. This version had been shortened from the version on the album Getz/Gilberto (recorded in March 1963, released in March 1964), which had also included the Portuguese lyrics sung by Astrud's then husband João Gilberto.

In the US, the single peaked at number five on the Billboard Hot 100, and went to number one for two weeks on the Easy Listening chart.^[6] Overseas