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 ...

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 ...

Jazz will be in the air in March. Acclaimed American jazz group Brad Mehldau Trio and Brazilian jazz singer Eliane Elias will bring their unique style of music to Korea next month. The Brad Mehldau ...

No, we will not remember 2006 as the year when bossa nova returned with a vengeance and then died. The Latin beat shows every promise of staying around and competing with the rock bands and the ...

Brazilian singer and composer Luciana Souza never seems to have known a day without music. She's the daughter of musicians, and Brazil's homegrown music — bossa nova — provided the soundtrack to her ...

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 ...

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 ...

Jazz saxophonists had a field day with the bossa nova in 1962. The jazz-Brazilian folk experiments first undertaken by alto saxophonist Bud Shank and guitarist Laurindo Almeida in the early and late ...

RIO DE JANEIRO – Veteran Bossa Nova composer Billy Blanco has died in Brazil at age 87. Hospital officials in Rio de Janeiro say he died Friday from complications of a stroke he suffered in October.

Jazz will be in the air in March. Acclaimed American jazz group Brad Mehldau Trio and Brazilian jazz singer Eliane Elias will bring their unique style of music to Korea next month. The Brad Mehldau ...