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Gilberto in 2006
Joao Gilberto Prado Pereira de Oliveira
(10 June 1931 ? 6 July 2019) was a
Brazilian
singer-songwriter and guitarist. He is known for developing the music genre of
bossa nova
in the late 1950s. He wrote the first bossa nova song, titled "Bim-Bom". Gilberto and
Antonio Carlos Jobim
were helpful in making bossa nova popular. In 1964, Gilberto and American saxophonist
Stan Getz
released the album
Getz/Gilberto
. The album won the
Grammy Award
for
Record of the Year
.
Gilberto was born in
Juazeiro
,
Bahia
. On 6 July 2019, he died after an illness at his apartment in
Rio de Janeiro
. He was 88.
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