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The legendary Bossa nova guitarist and Brazilian singer, João Gilberto, has died at the age of 88, according to his son Marcelo Gilberto, who went on Facebook Saturday (6 July) to announce the news. No cause of death has been revealed.
"My father is dead," wrote Marcelo Gilberto. "His fight was noble, he tried to maintain his dignity in the face of the loss of his sovereignty."
A pioneer of the bossa nova genre, João Gilberto blended traditional samba and modern jazz music in the late 1950s – publishing "Bim-Bom" in 1958 – and enjoyed international success over the next decade. In 1962, he records Getz / Gilberto with American jazz saxophonist Stan Getz, his long-time friend and collaborator Antônio Carlos Jobim and his wife Astrud Gilberto. The album became one of the best-selling jazz records of all time – sold more than two million copies in 1964 – and won the Grammy Album of the Year, becoming the first non American to do it then.
Her piece "The Girl from Ipanema" has become a standard in the world of jazz and pop. It peaked at No. 5 of the Billboard Hot 100 and would be the second most recorded song in the history behind "Yesterday" of The Beatles.
Gilberto is survived by his three children.
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