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Antônio Carlos Jobim

Brazilian composer and father of bossa nova, best known for 'The Girl from Ipanema'.

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The album Getz/Gilberto, which includes several of his compositions, received Grammy Awards for Best Jazz Instrumental Album – Individual or Group, Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical, and was the first jazz record to win Album of the Year.[1]

Life and work

Jobim's father Jorge was a writer, diplomat, professor and journalist who died in 1935.[2][3] Jobim's stepfather Celso da Frota Pessoa gave him his first piano and encouraged his musical career.[3] Jobim began piano lessons with Lúcia Branco and later studied with Hans-Joachim Koellreutter from 1941.[4] He earned his living playing in nightclubs and bars before working as an arranger at Continental Studio.[3][5]

In April 1953 his first composition "Incerteza" was recorded by singer Mauricy Moura.[5] João Gilberto's 1958 album featuring "Desafinado" and "Chega de Saudade" inaugurated the bossa nova movement.[6] Jobim married Thereza Otero Hermanny in 1949 and later married Ana Beatriz Lontra in 1986.[7] He died on 8 December 1994 from cardiac arrest caused by a pulmonary embolism.[8]

What the cited sources add

A Guardian article notes that Jobim is buried in the St John the Baptist cemetery in Rio de Janeiro.[9][10]

References

  1. Wikipedia, "Antônio Carlos Jobim" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "1995 GRAMMY WINNERS 38th Annual GRAMMY Awards", Grammy.com (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  2. Wikipedia, "Antônio Carlos Jobim" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Programa Roda Viva (TV Cultura), entrevista Tom Jobim Domingo, 19 de Dezembro de 1993 (PGM0385) Online transcription and video of the interview; CORADINI, O. L.: Important families and the professional elite within brazilian medicine. História, Ciências, Saúde—Manguinhos, III (3) 425–466, November 1996 –; SILVA, Innocêncio Francisco da: Diccionario Bibliographico Portuguez: Applicaveis a Portugal e ao Brasil, Lisboa 1860, p. 62 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  3. Wikipedia, "Antônio Carlos Jobim" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Roberto D'Avila interviews Antonio Carlos Jobim (1981) w/ English subtitles", 29 October 2017 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  4. Wikipedia, "Antônio Carlos Jobim" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Roberto D'Avila interviews Antonio Carlos Jobim (1981) w/ English subtitles", 29 October 2017; Ewans, "Music Research: New Directions for a New Century", Cambridge Scholars Press, 2004 (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
  5. Wikipedia, "Antônio Carlos Jobim" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Béhague, "Oxford Music Online", Oxford University Press, 2001; "Incerteza", Jobim Institute (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
  6. Wikipedia, "Antônio Carlos Jobim" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Tom Jobim", portal.jobim.org (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  7. Wikipedia, "Antônio Carlos Jobim" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Cohen, "Bebel Gilberto doesn't let her family legacy be a road map", Chicago Tribune, 13 September 2012; Cantor-Navas, "'Girl From Ipanema' Makes Olympic Comeback", 17 August 2016 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  8. Wikipedia, "Antônio Carlos Jobim" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Grimes, "Antonio Carlos Jobim, Composer, Dies at 67", New York Times, December 9, 1994; Claudia, "ANTONIO JOBIM DIES AT 67", Washington Post, December 8, 1994; "Antonio Jobim; Composer Created Bossa Nova Sound", Los Angeles Times, December 9, 1994; Cabral, Sergio (2008): Antônio Carlos Jobim – Uma Biografia (1st Edition). São Paulo, Brazil: IBEP Nacional. (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  9. Jonglez, "Finding peace with the 'little angels' of Rio's São João Batista cemetery", The Guardian, 22 June 2016. facts only, no text reused. theguardian.com
  10. Wikipedia, "Antônio Carlos Jobim" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Jonglez, "Finding peace with the 'little angels' of Rio's São João Batista cemetery", The Guardian, 22 June 2016 (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org

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