Gilberto, João
(*1931)
Gilberto, João * June 10, 1931Gilberto, JoãoJoão Gilberto Along with Antonio Carlos Jobim, João Gilberto is one of Brazil’s best-known performers of the bossa nova (new wave) musical style. Gilberto was born in the small agricultural city of Juazeiro in the state of Bahia, a place known both for its prolific production of irrigated fruit and its fertile blend of Afro-Brazilian sounds, particularly the samba and the fluent polyrhythms that would come to define tropicalia in the 1960s. He learned…