“Girl from Ipanema” myth of the bossa nova, turned 50 years of global
The iconic song of the bossa nova, the legendary “Girl from Ipanema”, 50 years old today since it was first performed in public with what started an unstoppable track record of success that has crossed the boundaries of music.
On August 2, 1962 the composer Antonio Carlos Jobim, singer Joao Gilberto, poet Vinicius de Moraes, drummer Milton Banana and bassist Otavio Bailly dazzled Rio playing at a club for the first time the song would overshadow all other landmarks of the bossa nova.
The simple but elegant melody of the Girl from Ipanema passed over other more elaborate as the brilliant song “Chega de Saudade”, also the prolific Tom Jobim.
The letter, written by Vinicius on behalf of his friend Jobim to accompany a melody that had not so long ago, was born with the name of “Menina passing” but was re-elaborated giving rise to the title by all known as told Efe Professor of literature, music lover and expert in bossa nova Carlos Alberto Afonso.
It was in the early 1960s when Jobim and Vinicius spent hours at the whisky Bar refugees Veloso, of the old Montenegro Street (today Vinicius de Moraes), in the Rio de Janeiro neighborhood of Ipanema, from where you spy the “sweet rocking” of the hips of a young girl that was going to the beach or errands.
Three months after the filing in Brazil was the premiere at the famous concert hall Carnegy Hall in New York where teachers leave the bossa nova planted a seed that germinate in the form of disc recorded with the American saxophonist Stan Getz.
The track was recorded in English by Astrud Gilberto and was drawn by the famous Getz to run over five minutes.
THE STORY OF A HIT
“To know the melody of Garota no further than a minute, but that wonderful way to interpret that Getz had reached more than the original version”, said Efe Alonso in his tent, called Toca do Vinicius, located in the heart of Ipanema and turned into a veritable museum and temple of the bossa nova.
Later, in 1965, Vinicius confess that his muse was a teenager named Helo Pinheiro thanks to his inspirational figure enjoys fame in Brazil and other countries, became soap opera actress, pageant organizer and entrepreneur.
“I never answered their compliments, only came into the bar to buy cigarettes for my parents or passed through there to enjoy my days off the sun”, Pinheiro explained to Efe in an interview.
Afonso said the bossa nova influenced jazz and not the other way “because at that time the melodies of Cole Porter and were worn”.
TO CONQUER THE WORLD
In 1967 Frank Sinatra called Jobim, who attended to the phone in the same Veloso bar even though converted into restaurant, can be visited and invited him to record.
Sinatra’s voice made the subject was beyond reach America and the world.
Ipanema, one of the affluent neighborhoods of Rio de Janeiro, is today a must-see for lovers of jazz, bossa nova and music in general. Jobim called, who answered the phone at the same bar Veloso can still visit even converted into a restaurant, and invited him to record.
Sinatra’s voice made the subject was beyond reach America and the world.
Ipanema, one of the affluent neighborhoods of Rio de Janeiro, is today a must-see for lovers of jazz, bossa nova and music in general.
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