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The smooth sounds of Bossa Nova

Clare Fischer - Morning [Salsa Picante, 1980]

A musical prodigy I've been obsessing with lately. Worked with Mike and Prince as strings arranger. Here's his Rhodesy take on some smooth Bossa.


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Re: Michael Jackson In Bossa Moments

arXter said:
this is part of a new campaign by Universal to celebrate Bossa Nova's "50th anniversary". churned out some sweet MJ covers:


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Monique Kessous - Remember The Time
http://www.fileden.com/files/2008/9/7/2086157/monique_kessous_-_remember_the_time.mp3

Deco Fiori - I Can't Help It
http://www.fileden.com/files/2008/9/7/2086157/deco_fiori_-_i_cant_help_it.mp3

Marcela Mangabeira - Human Nature
http://www.fileden.com/files/2008/9/7/2086157/marcela_mangabeira_-_human_nature.mp3

Barbara Mendes - Billie Jean
http://www.fileden.com/files/2008/9/7/2086157/barbara_mendes_-_billie_jean.mp3
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I enjoyed all of these MJ covers. Their settings, arrangements and tone all worked for me. A very enjoyable listen for fans looking for something unique.

Thank you arXter.

Marty In LA
 
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RockWithYou28 said:
Bebel Gilberto
Tanto Tempo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQuxuEr7pCc

Note the huge similarities in the song w/MJ's Butterflies. Bebel's album was released in 2000, so not quite sure if MJ took a cue from Bebel or if it was the other way around, and MJ just released his later.
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Very interesting. Lots of similarities with 'Butterflies' indeed.

Many fans may not yet appreciate that MJ's 'Butterflies' originated with the British female artist Marsha Ambrosius, at that time with the group Floetry.

According to some sources 'Butterflies' was written...'in early 1997 whilst Ambrosius was in high school. The original version can be found on the UK version of Floetry's 'Floetic' [CD]...'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85AdupCdBsQ

Bebel Gilberto is cool. Thanks for sharing this with us RockWithYou28.

Marty In LA
 
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7/6/2019 by Bonnie Stiernberg Billboard
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Not everyone can say they gave the world a whole musical genre -- let alone one that has been beloved for decades. Brazil's Joao Gilberto, who pioneered Bossa Nova over 60 years ago, certainly can. Born in 1931 and still going strong after dozens of key Bossa Nova and jazz albums, the singer-guitarist has also fathered other another musical accomplishment: his daughter is singer Bebel Gilberto.

Legendary Brazilian bossa nova guitarist and vocalist João Gilberto has passed away at the age of 88, according to his son Marcelo Gilberto, who took to Facebook on Saturday (July 6) to announce the news. No cause of death was revealed.
"My father has passed," Marcelo Gilberto wrote. "His fight was noble, he tried to maintain dignity in light of losing his sovereignty."

A pioneer of the bossa nova genre, João Gilberto blended traditional samba music and with modern jazz in the late '50s --releasing "Bim-Bom" in 1958-- and found international success the following decade. In 1962, he recorded Getz/Gilberto with American jazz saxpophonist Stan Getz, longtime friend and collaborator Antônio Carlos Jobim and his then-wife Astrud Gilberto. The album went on to become one of the best-selling jazz records of all time --selling more than two million copies in 1964-- and it took home the Grammy for Album of the Year, becoming the first non-American album to do so.

Its track "The Girl from Ipanema" has become a standard in both the jazz and pop worlds. It peaked at No. 5 on the Billboard Hot 100 and is believed to be the second-most recorded song in history behind The Beatles' "Yesterday."
Gilberto is survived by his three children.
 
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