João Gilberto
João Gilberto ( born June 10, 1931 as João Gilberto Prado Pereira de Oliveira in Juazeiro, Bahia) is a Brazilian guitarist, singer and composer, who is next to Antônio Carlos Jobim as the inventor of the Bossa Nova. Characteristic of Gilberto's style are mainly the low vocals and the rhythm of his guitar playing.
Life
Raised in the small village of Juazeiro showed João Gilberto early interest in music. At 14 he began playing guitar, and led a year later a school band that played at festivals and weddings in the region. As a 18- year-old he moved to Salvador da Bahia, where he took part in talent shows, the radio station and in 1950 was hired by the band da Lua Garotos that played daily in a transmitter in Rio de Janeiro. Because of its unreliability - he often arrived late or not at all on dates - he was fired a year later. He suggested a while with occasional work in Rio de Janeiro by and gave otherwise the marijuana back. Only when Luis Telles, leader of the band Quitandinha Serenaders, took him to Porto Alegre and supported him there to find engagements, he went back to intense music. After successes in various night clubs Gilberto retired for several months, lived with relatives in Minas Gerais and finally developed here a new style of guitar playing from the rhythm of the percussion of the Batucada and Samba.
After his return to Rio de Janeiro, he met the singer and composer Antônio Carlos Jobim know, played with him, and they took for Gilberto's debut album (1959 ) two pieces together on: the trend-setting Chega de Saudade ( No More Blues ), the also gave the album its title, and Bim - Bom. More Songs in this publication to standards in the repertoire of musicians were later around the world, were Desafinado and Samba de uma nota só ( One Note Samba). Until 1961 Gilberto and Jobim took on two more albums together and created from the combination of Samba Canção and cool jazz bossa nova (Portuguese New Wave ).
1962 traveled Gilberto and other bossa nova musicians for the first time in the United States. In 1963 he took in New York City together with Jobim, his wife, the singer Astrud Gilberto, and saxophonist Stan Getz on the album Getz / Gilberto. The album appeared in 1964, not least, the piece contained on The Girl from Ipanema, the musicians and the Bossa Nova made world famous.
João Gilberto returned to Brazil in 1980. His marriage with Astrud was divorced in 1964 in New York, and in 1965 he married the singer Miúcha ( Heloísa Buarque de Hollanda ). Their daughter Isabel " Bebel " Gilberto (born 1966) is in turn become an internationally known singer.
One of the most memorable releases from the younger Gilberto João Voz e fantasia is one time where he can be heard without a band, only with guitar and vocals.
Awards
At the Grammy Awards 1965, the album Getz / Gilberto won the Album of the Year Award. The single The Girl from Ipanema was in the same ceremony the Single of the Year Award, the version, the knew the American public without João was singing.