Brazilian Joao Gilberto, who helped create the bossa nova music genre 50 years ago, is to be the star performer at Madrid's inaugural Guitar Festival to be held in the Spanish capital May 15-June 21.

From a casual distance, the music of João Gilberto sounds like it might belong to that ancient realm known as "easy listening." Everything's calm, for starters. Even at fast tempos, Gilberto's voice ...

Born João Gilberto do Prado Pereira de Oliveira on June 10, 1931, in the town of Juázeiro in the northeastern state of Bahia, Brazil. His father was a wealthy merchant who insisted that all of his ...

A rare concert in 1998 was a chance to see the great musical pioneer emerge from hiding – and why his glorious talent lifted him beyond pop fads In 1998, I had the rare experience of seeing bossa nova ...

Long ReadNever before has a musical style been so closely associated with a single surname. In the late 1950s, the Brazilian musician João Gilberto invented bossa nova. Its worldwide influence was as ...

Artists from Sergio Mendes to Amy Winehouse have recorded the late bossa nova pioneer's best-known song. By Judy Cantor-Navas The familiar sway of João Gilberto’s guitar and his unhurried vocals ...

The British Invasion gets all the ink, but in 1964, as the Beatles were upending pop culture, a record by a jazz hit-maker and a Brazilian bossa nova innovator stormed the Grammy Awards and the ...