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    Bossa nova (Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈbɔsɐ ˈnɔvɐ] ) is a relaxed style of samba developed in the late 1950s and early 1960s in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil...
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  • "Soul Bossa Nova" is a popular instrumental, composed and first performed by American musician Quincy Jones. It appeared on his 1962 Big Band Bossa Nova album...
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  • Cannonball's Bossa Nova is a 1962 album by jazz musician Julian "Cannonball" Adderley. First released on Riverside in 1963, the album was reissued on Capitol...
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  • "Blame It on the Bossa Nova" is a song written by Cynthia Weil (lyrics) and Barry Mann which was a 1963 hit single for Eydie Gormé, reaching number 7 on...
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  • 'Billie Bossa Nova'". Far Out Magazine. Archived from the original on January 24, 2022. Retrieved January 24, 2022. Billie Eilish - Billie Bossa Nova (Live...
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    1962, Joe Harnell arranged and recorded an instrumental version in a bossa nova style. It was released as a single in late 1962. Harnell's version spent...
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  • "Bossa Nova Baby" is a song written by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller and recorded by Elvis Presley on January 22, 1963, at Radio Recorders in Hollywood...
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  • Bossa Nova Hotel is the 1983 debut album of rock singer/guitarist Michael Sembello. The album was a continuation of the work that Sembello began with producer...
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  • Look up bossa nova in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Bossa nova is a style of music. Bossa Nova or Bossanova may also refer to: Bossa Nova (dance), a...
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    João Gilberto (category Bossa nova singers)
    pioneer of the musical genre of bossa nova in the late 1950s. Around the world, he was often called the "father of bossa nova"; in his native Brazil, he was...
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  • Big Band Bossa Nova may refer to: Big Band Bossa Nova (Quincy Jones album), 1962 Big Band Bossa Nova (Stan Getz album), 1962 Big Band Bossa Nova (Enoch...
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    of which denote solid and well-accepted derivative strands – such as bossa nova, pagode, partido alto, samba de breque, samba-canção, samba de enredo...
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  • Bossa nova, nova bossa is the first album recorded by the Brazilian pianist and composer Manfredo Fest. Released on LP in 1963, this work counts on the...
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  • Bossa Nova 2001 (ボサ・ノヴァ2001) is the seventh studio album by Japanese pop band Pizzicato Five. It was released on June 1, 1993 by the Nippon Columbia imprint...
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    Sérgio Mendes (category Bossa nova pianists)
    his band Brasil '66. He released 35 albums and was known for playing bossa nova, often mixed with funk. He was nominated for an Oscar for Best Original...
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    by João Gilberto and Antônio Carlos Jobim, he also helped popularize bossa nova in the United States with the hit 1964 single "The Girl from Ipanema"...
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    classical, Middle Eastern music, hip hop and Brazilian music, including bossa nova. Thievery Corporation was formed in the summer of 1995 at Washington D...
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    Exploring the Scene! with Shelly Manne, Ray Brown (Contemporary, 1960) Bossa Nova Plus Big Band (Reprise, 1961) El Tigre with Harold Land (Charlie Parker...
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  • a new style of music called bossa nova evolved in the late 1950s. Based on the Brazilian samba as well as jazz, bossa nova was championed by João Gilberto...
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    achieved a degree of popularity throughout the decade, with genres such as bossa nova, the cha-cha-cha, ska, and calypso being popular. From a classical point...
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    Lisa Ono (category Bossa nova singers)
    Lisa Ono (小野リサ; born 29 July 1962) is a Brazilian Japanese bossa nova singer. Lisa Ono was born in São Paulo, Brazil, in 1962 but moved with her family...
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  • Father of Bossa Nova is an epithet held by several pioneers of bossa nova. It may refer to: João Gilberto (1931–2019), Brazilian musician Johnny Alf (1929–2010)...
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  • Bossa Nova is a 2000 Brazilian-American romantic comedy film directed by Bruno Barreto. It deals with several interwoven stories about people finding and...
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    Clave Analysis of Charanga Habanera's Tremendo delirio Bossa Nova Clave Video about Bossa Nova Clave family of Cuban clave patterns BBC World Service...
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    Bossa Nova Robotics is a startup robotics company that manufactures inventory control robots for use in retail stores. They are best known for an attempt...
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  • Bossa Nova Stories is the nineteenth studio album by Brazilian jazz artist Eliane Elias, released on 24 June 2008 by Blue Note Records. The album is a...
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  • patterns or a clave, and Afro-Brazilian jazz, which includes samba and bossa nova. African American music began incorporating Afro-Cuban musical motifs...
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    Astrud Gilberto (category Bossa nova singers)
    Evangelina Weinert; March 29, 1940 – June 5, 2023) was a Brazilian samba and bossa nova singer and songwriter. She gained international attention in the mid-1960s...
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  • Brazilian jazz can refer to both a genre, largely influenced by bossa nova and samba, that exists in many nations and the jazz music of Brazil itself....
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    Sitti (category Bossa nova singers)
    professionally as Sitti, is a Filipino bossa nova singer. After releasing her first album, Café Bossa, in 2006, other bossa nova acts in the Philippines followed...
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