Astrud Evangelina Weinert, the singer who became known to the world as Astrud Gilberto, has died at the age of 83, according to her granddaughter Sofia in an Instagram message. Astrud was the woman who gave voice to Garota de Ipanema, the composition of Vinícius de Moraes and Antônio Carlos Jobim was the timbre and image of the golden age of Brazilian culture. The years of bossa nova, rationalist architecture and the promise of a brave new world.
Gilberto died in the same year as his colleagues Rita Lee and Gal Costa and four years after the disappearance of Joâo Gilberto, the composer she married and from whom she took her surname, the most virtuoso of the musicians of his generation and the one who, with his erratic and solitary life, It became the negative of those years of innocence. Between the four of them, the history of Brazilian popular music could be narrated.
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