WHO : Astrud Gilberto
WHEN: BORN: March 29, 1940, Brazil.
ACTIVE: 1963-
WHAT: a Brazilian artist best known for her Samba and Boss Nova music. Married to guitarist Joao Gilberto who encouraged her to sing on the influential album Getz/Gilberto, thus launching her career as a professional singer.
Album Pick: Getz/Gilbert0
WHY:
1) Historical Use
This album won Grammy Awards for Best Album of the Year, Best Jazz Instrumental Album-Individual or Group and Best Engineered Album, Non Classical. "The Girl from Ipanema" also won the award for Best Record of the Year in 1965. It's release in 1964 created a bossa nove craze in the United States, and subsequently internationally. It became one of the best selling jazz albums of all time and turned signer Astrud into an international sensation. Listed as one of the 100 most important albums of the 20th century, Jazz Times said (11/94, pp.88-89) - "...essential for all serious jazz collections...serving as proof that it is possible for music to be both artistically and commercially successful."
2) Practical Use (to be used in arguments, as persuasive tactics, and or to make yourself feel better when you are creating that playlist and dialing in the "loop" function):
- These songs will actually make you feel like dancing rather than screaming and/or vomiting as do other child-aimed options( i.e. The Wiggles) that you might currently be repeat playing in your neighborhood.
-Portuguese actually sounds like a language your little one might be hip too..and it is excellent fodder for a sing-a-long (reference here the similar approach of say, "Skid-a-mah-rink-a-dinky-dink" ).
-you might actually like this album
- jazz makes you smarter.
Which Songs:
Crickets Sing for Anamaria
Come Softly to Me/ Hushabye
EXTRACURRICULARS:
Learn How to Samba
What is Bossa Nova
SHOW THIS TO YOUR KIDS:
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