Astrud Gilberto - The Girl From Ipanema World of Jazz

Jazz Lovers! Check our new Channel ► Astrud Gilberto (born March 29, 1940) is a Brazilian samba and bossa nova singer. ‘The Girl From Ipanema’ was a big hit for Astrud Gilberto and became the break through of her international career. “Garota de Ipanema“ (“The Girl from Ipanema“) is a Brazilian bossa nova jazz song for which the music was written by composer Antonio Carlos Jobim and the Portugese lyrics by Vinicius de Moraes. The English lyrics were written by Norman Gimbel. The version recorded by Astrud Gilberto and Stan Getz became an international hit. In the US, the single peaked at number five on the Billboard Hot 100. It became a worldwide hit and won a Grammy for Record of the Year in 1965. This recording was made during the concert that Astrud Gilberto gave with her band on 11 July 1987 at the North Sea Jazz Festival, The Hague, The Netherlands. See the full concert on the World of Jazz channel ► Watch our great music videos ❯ More TopPop? Subscribe here ❯ More info on Wikipedia ❯ Broadcast date: This is to let you know that the video recording of the video clip was originally recorded by AVROTROS Broadcasting. AVROTROS Broadcasting hereby warrants and represents that it is the sole and exclusive owner of the physical film and/or videotape footage in this video clip. The performance of the artist(s) in the clip was filmed and recorded with the written consent of the artist(s) and their representatives. AVROTROS is a Dutch radio and television broadcaster, founded in 2014 from a merger of AVRO and TROS. From January 1st, 2014 the name of the merged broadcaster was used in joint programmes. AVRO was founded in 1923 as the Netherlands first public broadcaster. TROS started broadcasting in 1964. Toppop was a weekly AVRO pop program that was aired between 1970 and 1988. AVROTROS Broadcasting PO Box 2 1200 JA Hilversum The Netherlands TopPop was the first regular dedicated pop music TV show in the Dutch language area. Dutch broadcaster AVRO aired the programme weekly, from 1970 to 1988. Presenter Ad Visser hosted the show for its first fifteen years. World famous music artists performed on TopPop: ABBA, 10CC, Bee Gees, The Jacksons, David Bowie, Earth & Fire, Boney M, Smokie, KC & The Sunshine Band, Chick, Donna Summer, Rod Stewart, and many many more.