Audio and visual extravaganza kicks off today with official animated video for bossa nova classic 'The Girl From Ipanema' and unique visualizers for some of the most important songs of the canon.

Que Bossa will perform bossa nova and samba standards like “The Girl From Ipanema” as well as modern “bossafied” songs like Cake’s “Never There” at Picnic in the Park on Wednesday, Sept. 13. Que Bossa ...

Antonio Carlos Jobim's incredible bossa nova, born of the samba, continues to attract musicians. By Billboard Staff Antonio Carlos Jobim’s incredible bossa nova, born of the samba, continues to ...

When Brazilian musicians fused samba with jazz and classical influences in the 1950s and ’60s, he was among the first, and the best. By Clay Risen Carlos Lyra, a Brazilian composer, singer and ...

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, ...

The landmark album Jazz Samba was recorded at All Souls Unitarian Church in 1962 and changed the sonic landscape forever. Fronted by guitarist Charlie Byrd and saxophonist Stan Getz, the album rose to ...

Brazil’s best-known form of music is the samba, the drum-heavy, rhythmically intricate and danceable genre that powers Carnival. But in 1955, when João Gilberto locked himself in the bathroom of his ...

In the early 1960s, bossa nova was hugely popular in the US thanks to its reinvention as a social dance and its connections with upper-class culture. What does it take to make a dance take off? In the ...

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 ...