"Garota de Ipanema" ("The Girl From Ipanema") is a Brazilian Bossa Nova and Jazz song. It was written in 1962 with music by Antônio Carlos Jobim and Portuguese lyrics by Vinicius de Moraes. The first commercial recording of "Garota de Ipanema" occured that same year, performed by singer Pery Ribeiro and released on his 1963 album Pery É Todo Bossa ("Pery Is All Bossa"). During the March 1963 recording of Jobim, João Gilberto, and Stan Getz's album Getz/Gilberto, the idea of cutting an English-language version of "Garota de Ipanema" came up. English lyrics were written by Norman Gimbel[1], while Gilberto's wife Astrid, who spoke the best English, provided English vocals along with his Portugeuse vocals. A shortened version of "The Girl From Ipanema", omitting the Portuguese vocals, was released as a single and became an international hit. In the US, the single peaked at No. 5 on the US Billboard Hot 100 and was No. 1 for two weeks on the Billboard Easy Listening chart[2]. In the 1965 Grammy Awards, "The Girl From Ipanema" won Record of the Year. "Garota de Ipanema" is allegedly the second most covered pop song of all time, after "Yesterday" by The Beatles[3]. In 2001, "The Girl From Ipanema" was inducted into the Latin Grammy Hall of Fame[4], while in 2004, it was added to the National Recording Registry by the Library of Congress[5]. Numerous recordings of "Garota de Ipanema" have been used in films, often as elevator background music. In Sing, Mike performs "Garota de Ipanema" on saxophone when introducing himself to Nancy. LyricsOlha que coisa mais linda Read more here... References
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