Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Astrud Gilberto, the Brazilian singer whose 1964 hit ‘The Girl from Ipanema’ is said to be the second-most recorded song ever ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Astrud Gilberto, the Brazilian singer, songwriter and entertainer whose off-hand, English-language cameo on “The Girl from Ipanema” made her a worldwide voice of bossa nova, has died ...

The music world is in a state of mourning as it has lost a beloved figure. Astrud Evangelina Weinert (Salvador de Bahía, 1940), known professionally as Astrud Gilberto, has passed away at the age of ...

Astrud Gilberto, a Brazilian singer whose impromptu cameo performing lyrics in English on “The Girl From Ipanema” catapulted her to global fame and defined the whisper-smooth mellowness of the bossa ...

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