The daughter of a German father and a Brazilian mother, the singer was born Astrud Evangelina Weinert in Bahia in 1940 and mostly raised in Rio de Janeiro. She married bossa nova pioneer/ singer-guitarist João Gilberto in 1959, and although the marriage lasted only a few years, but she kept his name.
In 1963, she joined him on a trip to New York to record the “Getz/Gilberto” album with jazz saxophonist Stan Getz. She ended up singing “Girl From Ipanema” inadvertently: Producer Creed Taylor had wanted to record an English version of the Brazilian song “Garota De Ipanema” and Astrud, whose father taught languages, was the only Brazilian at the session who spoke English.
She was reportedly not paid for recording the song, but its success led to many other opportunities, including a long-term deal with Verve Records, a role in the film “The Hanged Man.” After her divorce, she toured with Getz, collaborated with Chet Baker and released some 16 studio albums over the following decades, with her last arriving in 2002. In 1996, she and George Michael duetted on the Brazilian song “Desafinado” for “Red Hot + Rio” in the Red Hot AIDS benefit album series.
“She was an important part of ALL that is Brazilian music in the world and she changed many lives with her energy,” her collaborator Paul Ricci wrote in a social media post announcing her death.
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