Perhaps best known worldwide from the 1960s jazz song "The Girl From Ipanema," which describes a "tall and tan and young and lovely" who who walks "like a samba," the Ipanema neighborhood of Brazil’s ...

After a three-year hiatus, Ipanema sandals has returned to the U.S. market with a new wholesale and retail strategy. According to Kate Minner, chief marketing officer of Ipanema’s parent company ...

Nearly half a century after she inspired the song heard around the world, you still hear drumbeats when she sways by. Yes, rhythm and music lovers, there really was the "Girl From Ipanema" and she's ...

Helo Pinheiro was a 17-year-old fixture on the Rio beach ("tall and tan and young and lovely") in 1962, when she caught the eye of composer Antonio Carlos Jobim, who along with poet Vinicius De Moraes ...

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Singer had no previous recording experience when she sang a defining song of Brazilian culture in 1963 Astrud Gilberto, whose dreamy interpretation of The Girl from Ipanema became the most popular ...

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