The show failed to take off, but the song became a hit, first in Brazil and then internationally, thanks to a 1964 version by singer-songwriter João Gilberto and American saxophonist Stan Getz, with Astrud Gilberto singing the lyrics in English. For this project, they labored on “Garota de Ipanema,” a melancholy number about secret longing. In 1962, Brazilian poet Vinicius de Morae and songwriter and composer Antônio Carlos Jobim, having had success in composing songs for the 1959 film Black Orpheus, set out to collaborate on a musical comedy about a Martian visiting the Carnival in Rio de Janeiro. From the May/June 2020 issue of Acoustic Guitar | By Adam Perlmutter
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