Astrud Gilberto, the singer who popularized Brazilian bossa nova around the world with her 1963 hit “The Girl From Ipanema,” died Tuesday at 83.Her death was first reported by musician and family friend Paul Ricci who said he had Ms. Gilberto’s son Marcelo had asked him to post the news.“Life is beautiful, as the song says,” she wrote in Portuguese, “but I bring sad news that my grandmother became a star today and is next to my grandfather Joao Gilberto,” who died in 2019.
In 2022, British newspaper The Independent reported that after her split from LaSorsa she “remained in Philadelphia living in privacy. In retirement, she grew interested in philosophy, painting and campaigning against cruelty to animals.” And in 2001, she made her first recording in 14 years, and what would turn out to be her final album, at Indre Studios on Darien Street in South Philadelphia., included 10 songs written by Ms. Gilberto plus covers of Ernesto Duarte’s “Como Fué” and Burt Bacharach and Hal David’s “The Look of Love.”
“Her son was in a band and she was there to see them,” recalls publican Fergus Carey. “I remember her being upstairs and being pointed out to me. I don’t think that we were introduced.” Presumably, he would have remembered.
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