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The First Daughter of Bossa Nova

By Peter Schneider

Published July 7, 2004

Bebel Gilberto

Ziriguiboom/Six Degrees Records

Emerging from late-night clubs and living rooms that lined Rio de Janeiro's affluent southern beaches in 1958, the bossa nova (literally, the 'new beat') was pioneered by a tight knit group of Brazilian innovators, among them Antonio Carlos Jobim and João Gilberto. Adapting the streetwise pulse of the samba and blending it with cool jazz...

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