Astrud Gilberto

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Astrud Gilberto (1970)

Astrud Gilberto (born March 30, 1940 in Salvador da Bahia , Brazil as Astrud Evangelina Weinert ) is a Grammy- winning singer of jazz and popular music in the Latin American style ( samba and bossa nova ), often on the borderline to easy listening . She became world famous in 1963 when she sang the original recording of The Girl from Ipanema .

Life

Astrud Gilberto is the daughter of a Brazilian and a German immigrant. In 1947 she moved to Rio de Janeiro with her family . In 1959 she married the Brazilian musician João Gilberto . She emigrated to the United States in 1963, where João Gilberto had worked since 1962. Her first and most famous recording is the title A Garota de Ipanema - The Girl from Ipanema on the Verve album Getz / Gilberto , the 1963 Bossa Nova, which was recorded in Brazil from 1958/59 (mainly under the influence of Antônio Carlos Jobim and others) popularized in the United States and the world. Gilberto recorded her first album in 1965 with The Astrud Gilberto Album . As on later albums, this mainly included foreign compositions. From the album Now (1972) Gilberto also tried her hand as a composer. In addition, she has performed in concerts all over the world. In her native Brazil, however, she only performed once, in 1965 in São Paulo.

In 1992 she received the Latin Jazz USA Award for Lifetime Achievement for her musical life's work. Gilberto's voice moves within an octave, which gives her timbre a typical, cool-jazz-like timbre.

The marriage with João Gilberto was divorced in 1964. She has two sons, Marcelo Gilberto and Gregory Lasorsa. With these she ran the music publisher Gregmar Productions, Inc. in the 1990s . Astrud Gilberto retired from the music business in 2001 and has since devoted herself to painting .

Awards

At the Grammy Awards in 1965, the album Getz / Gilberto was named "Album of the Year". However, the prize went to Stan Getz and João Gilberto , as Astrud Gilberto can only be heard as a singer in the songs The Girl from Ipanema and Corcovado . For the single The Girl from Ipanema Astrud Gilberto received the Grammy together with Stan Getz. In the single version for the US market, João Gilberto's vocals in Portuguese were missing. In this version you can only hear Astrud Gilberto singing in English and a shortened version of Stan Getz's tenor saxophone solo.

Discographic notes

Albums

  • Stan Getz and Astrud Gilberto - Getz Au-Go-Go (Label Verve, 1964)
  • The Astrud Gilberto Album (Verve, 1964)
  • The Shadow of Your Smile (Verve, 1965)
  • Look to the Rainbow (Verve, 1965, The Gil Evans Orchestra)
  • Beach Samba (Verve, 1966)
  • A Certain Smile, a Certain Sadness with Walter Wanderley (Verve, 1967)
  • Windy (Verve, 1968)
  • September 17, 1969 (Verve, 1969)
  • Gilberto Golden Japanese Album (Verve, 1969)
  • I Haven't Got Anything Better to Do (Verve, 1970)
  • Astrud Gilberto with Stanley Turrentine (CTI, 1971)
  • Astrud Gilberto Now (Perception, 1972)
  • That Girl from Ipanema (Audio Fidelity, 1977, with a.o. Chet Baker )
  • Astrud Gilberto Plus James Last Orchestra ( PolyGram , 1987 and Universal 2009)
  • Live in New York ( Pony Canyon , 1996)
  • Temperance (album) (Pony Canyon, 1997)
  • Jungle (Magya, 2002)

Recordings in albums of other musicians and co-productions

  • Stan Getz and João Gilberto - Getz / Gilberto (Verve, 1963)
  • Quincy Jones - The Deadly Affair (Verve, 1965; soundtrack)
  • Shigeharu Mukai and Astrud Gilberto - So & So - Mukai Meets Gilberto (Denon, 1982)
  • Michael Franks - Passionfruit (Album) (Warner, 1983)
  • James Last - Plus (album) (Polydor, 1986)
  • Étienne Daho - Eden (Album) (Virgin, 1996)
  • George Michael - Ladies and Gentleman - Best of George Michael (Sony, 1998)

literature

  • Leonard Feather : The Encyclopedia of Jazz in the Sixties. Da Capo, New York 1986, ISBN 978-0-306-80263-8 (reprint of 1966 edition).
  • JA Tynan: Caught in the Act: Stan Getz - Astrud Gilberto , In: Down Beat . 31, No. 24, 1964, p. 35.
  • P. Welding: Astrud Gilberto / Stanley Turrentine (Review), In: Down Beat. 38, No. 20, 1971, p. 19.
  • G. Rava: The Lady from Ipanema. In: Jazz Magazine (Paris). 323, 1983, p. 42.
  • C. Groome: The Girl from Ipanema's a Lady Now. In: EAR: New Music News. 6 / 5-7 / 1, 1987, p. 13.
  • HJ Rippert: Astrud Gilberto. In: Jazz Podium. 39, No. 7-8, 1990, p. 55.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.discogs.com/Astrud-Gilberto-The-Astrud-Gilberto-Album/release/386072
  2. ↑ https://www.discogs.com/Astrud-Gilberto-Now/release/1135662
  3. ↑ http://www.astrudgilberto.com/interview.htm
  4. ↑ Astrud Gilberto sings the Bossa Nova. Retrieved August 2, 2011 .
  5. ↑ https://www.discogs.com/Stan-Getz-Joao-Gilberto-Featuring-Antonio-Carlos-Jobim-Getz-Gilberto/release/170884
  6. ↑ https://www.grammy.com/grammys/awards/7th-annual-grammy-awards
  7. ↑ https://www.grammy.com/grammys/artists/astrud-gilberto
personal data
SURNAME Gilberto, Astrud
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Weinert, Astrud Evangelina (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Brazilian-American singer and composer
DATE OF BIRTH March 30, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Salvador da Bahia , Brazil