João Gilberto

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João Gilberto (2006)

João Gilberto (* 10. June 1931 as João Gilberto Prado Pereira de Oliveira in Juazeiro , Bahia , † 6. July 2019 in Rio de Janeiro ) was a Brazilian guitarist , singer and composer , in addition to Antonio Carlos Jobim as the inventor of bossa nova applies . Gilberto's style is characterized by the soft singing and the rhythm of his guitar playing.

Life

Growing up in Juazeiro, João Gilberto showed an early interest in music. He started playing guitar at the age of 14 and a year later he was leading a school band that played at parties and weddings in the region. At the age of 18 he moved to Salvador da Bahia , took part in talent shows on radio stations and in 1950 was hired by the band Garotos da Lua , who played daily on a station in Rio de Janeiro . Because of his unreliability - he often came late or not at all for appointments - he was fired a year later. For a while he got by doing odd jobs in Rio de Janeiro and otherwise indulging in marijuana . Only when Luís Telles, leader of the band Quitandinha Serenaders , brought him to Porto Alegre and supported him there to find engagements, did he devote himself intensively to music again. After successes in various nightclubs Gilberto retired for several months back, lived with relatives in Minas Gerais and developed it finally a new style of guitar playing from the rhythms of percussion of Batucada and Samba .

On his return to Rio de Janeiro, he met the singer and composer Antônio Carlos Jobim, played with him, and they recorded two pieces together for Gilberto's debut album (1959): the trend-setting Chega de Saudade (No more Blues) , the also gave the album its title, and Bim-Bom . Other songs from this release, which later became standards in the repertoire of musicians around the world, were Desafinado and Samba de uma nota só (One Note Samba) . Until 1961 Gilberto and Jobim recorded two more albums together and created the Bossa Nova ( Portuguese new wave ) from the combination of Samba Canção and Cool Jazz .

In 1962 Gilberto and other bossa nova musicians traveled to the USA for the first time. In 1963 he recorded the album Getz / Gilberto in New York City together with Jobim, his wife, the singer Astrud Gilberto , and the saxophonist Stan Getz . The album, released in 1964, not least the included piece The Girl from Ipanema , made the musicians and bossa nova world famous. João Gilberto returned to Brazil in 1980.

Gilberto's marriage to Astrud was divorced in New York in 1964, and he married the singer Miúcha (Heloísa Buarque de Hollanda) in 1965 . Their daughter Isabel "Bebel" Gilberto (born 1966) has become an internationally known singer. He later married the journalist Claudia Faissol, with whom he has another daughter.

Since 2017, Gilberto has been the subject of a family quarrel between his eldest children Bebel and João Marcelo and his last wife Faissol, which was carried out under media coverage. Accordingly, Gilberto lived lonely and heavily in debt as well as mentally and physically badly damaged. He died at his home in Rio de Janeiro in July 2019 at the age of 88.

Awards

At the Grammy Awards in 1965, the album Getz / Gilberto received the Album of the Year award. The single The Girl from Ipanema got the Single of the Year award in the same ceremony , although the version that the American audience knew was without João's vocals.

Discography

  • 1959: Chega de Saudade (Odeon)
  • 1960: O Amor, o Sorriso ea Flor (Odeon)
  • 1961: João Gilberto (Odeon)
  • 1962: The Boss of the Bossa Nova (Atlantic)
  • 1963: The Warm World of João Gilberto (Atlantic)
  • 1964: Getz / Gilberto (Verve)
  • 1965: Herbie Mann & João Gilberto (Atlantic)
  • 1974: João Gilberto en Mexico (PolyGram)
  • 1976: Best of Two Worlds (Columbia)
  • 1977: Amoroso (Warner Brothers)
  • 1981: Brasil (Warner Brothers)
  • 1986: João Gilberto Live in Montreux (WEA)
  • 1991: João (PolyGram)
  • 2000: João Voz e Violão (Universal)
  • 2002: Live at Umbria Jazz (Egea)
  • 2004: João Gilberto in Tokyo (Verve)
  • 2007: João Gilberto for Tokyo (Japan Universal)
  • 2015: Um Findero no Au bon gourmet (Doxy)
  • 2015: Selections from Getz / Gilberto '76 (Resonance)
  • 2016: Getz / Gilberto 76 (Resonance)

literature

Web links

Commons : João Gilberto  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Carola Solé: Triste fin de vie pour João Gilberto, la voix de la bossa nova. In: Le Soleil of May 19, 2018, accessed on November 15, 2018 (French)
  2. ^ Ian Thomson: João Gilberto: reports of Bossa Nova king's death exaggerated. In: Irish Times, August 9, 2018, accessed November 15, 2018
  3. ↑ Bossa Nova inventor João Gilberto evicted and broke: Poverty despite world fame. In: SWR2 from June 26, 2018, accessed on November 15, 2018
  4. ↑ Adam Forrester: Brazilian bossa nova legend Joao Gilberto dies, aged 88. In: co.uk. The Independent , July 2019, accessed July 8, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Gilberto, João
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Prado Pereira de Oliveira, João Gilberto (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Brazilian guitarist, singer and composer. Co-inventor of Bossa Nova
DATE OF BIRTH June 10, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Juazeiro , Brazil
DATE OF DEATH 6th July 2019
Place of death Rio de Janeiro