Garota de ipanema lyrics tom jobim biography
Garota de ipanema espanol!
The Girl from Ipanema
"Garota de Ipanema" ("The Girl from Ipanema") is a Brazilianbossa nova and jazz song. It was very popular in the mid-1960s and won a Grammy for Record of the Year in 1965.
Garota de ipanema lyrics tom jobim biography
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.[1] It was first sung by Astrud Gilberto.
Background
[change | change source]The song is about 17 year old Heloísa Pinheiro.
Songwriters Jobim and de Moraes saw her walking to the beach in Ipanema, a neighborhood in Rio de Janeiro.[2]
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.[3]
Frank Sinatra and Ella Fitzgerald recorded covers of the song.[4]
Legal issues
[change | change source]In 2001, the song's copyright owners sued Pinheiro for using the title of the song as the name of her bouti