June 6 (UPI) — Astrud Gilberto, the singer identified for popularizing Brazilian bossa nova music for worldwide audiences along with her 1964 rendition of The Woman from Ipanema, died Monday on the age of 83.
“My grandmother Astrud Gilberto made this tune for me, it is referred to as Linda Sofia. She even needed my identify to be Linda Sofia. Life is gorgeous because the tune says, however I come to convey the unhappy information that my grandmother turned a star as we speak and is subsequent to my grandfather Joao Gilberto,” Gilberto’s granddaughter Sofia Gilberto Oliveira, wrote in an Instagram submit saying the loss of life.
Regardless of the worldwide success of The Woman from Ipanema, Gilberto reportedly solely made $120 for her recording session.
Previous to the success of The Woman from Ipanema, which received a Grammy for Tune of the 12 months, Gilberto married Brazilian composer Joao Gilberto, with whom she had one son. The couple divorced throughout the Sixties.
The Woman from Ipanema achieved worldwide success and has been rerecorded by a number of artists within the a long time since Gilberto’s model was first launched.
Eartha Package, Frank Sinatra and Amy Winehouse all recorded variations of The Woman from Ipanema.
Gilberto additionally labored with Chet Baker, George Michael and Quincy Jones throughout her profession.
Gilberto additionally had a movie profession, portraying roles within the movies Get Your self a Faculty Woman and The Hanged Man.
Throughout her lifetime, Gilberto additionally advocated for animal rights.
“Cruelty to animals is a matter that issues most of us that take pleasure in being “non secular beings.” Though none of us could be able to personally inflicting ache and struggling on an animal, inadvertently, in some unspecified time in the future, we might have contributed to cruelty and abuse to animals,” Gilberto wrote on her web site.
“Do not suppose for a second that any ‘little’ motion that you’re succesful and keen to take wouldn’t make a distinction,” she continued.
In 2002, Gilberto was inducted into the Latin Music Corridor of Fame and, in 2008, the Latin Recording Academy awarded her a lifetime achievement grammy.
