… Astrud Gilberto was born in 1940 in Bahia, Brazil, ____ her family moved to Rio de Janeiro ____ ____ youth. ____ entered show business in 1963 through her husband at the time, João Gilberto. João, a singer, guitarist, and composer, worked with Antonio Carlos Jobim on developing Bossa Nova—a musical style that combined Brazilian samba rhythms ____ jazz. The sound interested American jazz musician Stan Getz, ____ invited the two men to record ____ him. One of the tracks, "The Girl from Ipanema", required a vocalist who could sing in English. Astrud, musically inexperienced but conversant in Portuguese and English, tried the lyrics, and her soft, even voice and low-key style fit the song. "The Girl from Ipanema" earned a 1964 Grammy Award as record of the year ….

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