Astrud Gilberto

Genres:	Jazz • Latin • World Music
Descriptive "tags":	bossa nova • jazz • brazilian • female vocalists • latin
Decades Active:	1960s • 1970s • 1980s • 1990s • 2000s
Artist Compilations:	Stan Getz & Astrud Gilberto • Stan Getz & Astrud Gilberto (with Charlie Byrd)
Links online:	BBC Music • IMDb • Official Homepage • Wikipedia • Wikipedia

Biography

Astrud Weinert, 30 March 1940, Bahia, Brazil. Gilberto’s career began by accident in March 1963 during a recording session featuring her husband, guitarist João Gilberto, and saxophonist Stan Getz. A projected track, ‘The Girl From Ipanema’, required a singer conversant with English and although strictly a non-professional, Astrud was coaxed into performing the soft, sang-froid vocal. Her contribution was considered relatively unimportant - early pressings of the resultant Stan Getz/João Gilberto did not credit the singer - even when the track was issued as a single the following year. ‘The Girl From Ipanema’ eventually reached the US Top 5 and UK Top 20, garnering sales in excess of one million and forever binding the artist to the subject of the song. Astrud later toured with Getz; their collaboration was chronicled on Getz A-Go-Go, but she later pursued an independent career, bringing her distinctive, if limited, style to a...

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