The marriage of bossa nova—as joyous and life-affirming as music gets—to the catchy, unabashedly cheerful songs of Disney films would seem a logical pairing. Disney Bossa Nova, a compilation featuring ...

Gilberto, who was a singer and composer, is considered one of the fathers of the Bossa Nova genre. The Portuguese word saudade [pronounced sau-DAH-jee in Brazilian Portuguese] has no translation in ...

Explore artists and institutions celebrating the fired arts. Explore artists and institutions celebrating the fired arts, plus, a vocal group specializing in soothing bossa nova. The Wiener Museum of ...

The British have always been famously resistant to music not sung in English - most recently when the Lambada craze all but passed this country by. But now Britain is one of the launch pads for a new ...

MANILA, Philippines — The Filipino diaspora is also about pursuing passions aside from finding greener pastures. A testament to it is our kababayan who are making a name for themselves abroad, ...

Helena Beltrão, a distinguished alumnI of Berklee College of Music, embodies her cultural heritage as she emerges as a leading exponent of Bossa Nova in New York City's vibrant music scene. Bossa Nova ...

Brazilian Voices is an award-winning non-profit female vocal group based in South Florida. Brazilian Voices is an award-winning non-profit female vocal group based in South Florida. They have been ...

Guitarist-composer Roberto Menescal is one of the bossa nova's pioneers. Though his songs were recorded by other artists years earlier, his first leadership album, A Nova Bossa, was released in 1964 ...

This is not unusual, though. Just like the sensation that was acoustic pop a couple of years back or the Pinoy pop alternative phenomenon of the 90s, this is an oft repeated inclination given to the ...

In March, the Brazilian style of music known as bossa nova made an unexpected appearance on one of the year’s biggest hip-hop albums: Juice WRLD‘s Death Race for Love. Thank Tommy Brown. During a ...

Before American pop music openly took cues from the rest of the world, bossa nova changed how the country thought about international music. The reflective genre flipped the jazz world on its head, ...

Bossa Nova—literally “new swing” in Portuguese—emerges as an unmistakable chapter in the story of Brazilian popular music. Born in Rio de Janeiro’s bohemian neighborhoods at the tail end of the 1950s, ...