Moreira will be joined by his partner, Lou Wilkin, on percussion and guitar. Joining them in creating a magical evening is a ...

The Philippines’ “Queen of Bossa Nova,” Sitti Navarro-Ramirez, is turning her 20-year music journey into an intimate concert ...

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RIO DE JANEIRO — Sergio Mendes, the Brazilian Grammy-winning musician whose hit “Mas Que Nada” made him a global legend, has died after months of battling the effects of long Covid. He was 83.

Born on the beaches of Rio in the late 1950s, bossa nova fused samba rhythms with jazz sophistication to create a smooth, timeless sound. Pioneers like João Gilberto and Antônio Carlos Jobim ...

In 1963, a seventeen-year-old Antonio Adolfo was already gigging professionally on the exploding bossa nova scene in Rio de Janeiro, his hometown. His career has continued unabated. For decades, he ...

In a quaint bungalow humming with Portuguese, a cool breeze of lilting harmonies and rhythmic bounce invites a leisurely sway to the tranquility of bossa nova. It’s a modern take on a sound pioneered ...

Most people thought bossa nova was dead, and most were glad to have simply survived the hucksterized flood of bossa nova dances, bossa nova shoes and sweatshirts, boogie bossa nova, soul bossa nova.