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Astrud Gilberto (b. March 29, 1940) is a Brazilian-born singer best known for her samba and bossa nova music. Astrud was born Astrud Winert from a Brazilian mother and a German father in the state of Bahia, and grew up in Rio de Janeiro. Astrud married João Gilberto in 1959, and they moved to the United States in 1963, when she performed on the influential Getz/Gilberto album with João Gilberto, Stan Getz and Antonio Carlos Jobim. Astrud had never performed professionally before, and joined the recordings by insistance of Stan Getz In the mid-1960s the couple divorced.
The success of Gilberto's vocal work on the song "The Girl from Ipanema" quickly turned her into a jazz star, and soon she started recording solo. She started as an interpreter of Brazilian bossa nova and American jazz standards, but started recording her own compositions in the 1970s. The song "Astrud," by Polish singer Basia, is a tribute to Gilberto.
Astrud Gilberto hated rock n' roll and stated that it destroyed music completely. Her favorite music is jazz and ragtime
Discography
Albums
- Stan Getz and Astrud Gilberto - Getz Au-Go-Go (Verve, 1964 in music)
- The Astrud Gilberto Album (Verve, 1964 in music)
- The Shadow Of Your Smile (Verve, 1965 in music)
- Look To The Rainbow (Verve, 1965 in music)
- Beach Samba (Verve, 1966 in music)
- A Certain Smile, A Certain Sadness with Walter Wanderley (Verve, 1967 in music)
- Windy (Verve, 1968 in music)
- September 17, 1969 (Verve, 1969 in music)
- Gilberto Golden Japanese Album (Verve, 1969 in music)
- I Haven't Got Anything Better To Do (Verve, 1970 in music)
- Astrud Gilberto With Stanley Turrentine (CTI, 1971 in music)
- Astrud Gilberto Now (Perception, 1972 in music)
- That Girl From Ipanema (Audio Fidelity, 1977 in music)
- Astrud Gilberto Plus James Last Orchestra (Polygram, 1987 in music)
- Live In New York (Pony Canyon, 1996 in music)
- Temperance (album) (Pony Canyon, 1997 in music)
- Jungle (Magya, 2002 in music)
Soundtracks
- The Deadly Affair (Verve, 1965 in music)
Other albums featuring Astrud Gilberto
- Stan Getz and João Gilberto - Getz/Gilberto (Verve, 1963 in music)
- Shigeharu Mukai and Astrud Gilberto - So & So - Mukai Meets Gilberto (Denon, 1982 in music)
- Michael Franks - Passionfruit (album) (Warner Bros., 1983 in music)
- Etienne Daho - Eden (album) (Virgin, 1996 in music)
- George Michael - Ladies And Gentleman - Best of George Michael (Sony, 1998 in music)
External links
- astrudgilberto.com - Official Website
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