The Girl from Ipanema

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The Girl from Ipanema by Astrud Gilberto

About The Girl from Ipanema

"The Girl from Ipanema" ("Garota de Ipanema") is a well-known bossa nova song, a worldwide hit in the mid-1960s that won a Grammy for Record of the Year in 1965. It was written in 1962, with music by Antonio Carlos Jobim and Portuguese lyrics by Vinicius de Moraes with English lyrics written later by Norman Gimbel. The Girl from Ipanema Songfacts explains that Jobim and Moraes were inspired by Helo Pinheiro, a young Brazilian girl who wore a bikini and regularly walked "Like a samba" past the "Veloso" bar that they frequented. .

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About this song

Credited to
Astrud Gilberto, João Gilberto, Stan Getz, Joao Gilberto
Album
Best of Brazil · Track 17 of 38
Released
December 1, 2015
Duration
5:12
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173,909 listeners on Last.fm

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