Brazil, the country of carnivals, beautiful people and eternal youth – can its music be different?
"Bossa Nova" is a popular music style that was born in Brazil around 1950-ies and is probably the best way to characterize it. These two words in the literal translation from Portuguese mean a ‘new trend’. ‘Bossa’ can also mean everything that is charming, natural and original. This term was first coined as a public reference to a music style in 1958 at the concert of the “University Hebrew Group of Brazil”. This curious style soon was first spread to the entire Latin American, then taken by the American Jazz players to the North America, and in a little while experienced a real worldwide boom due to João Gilberto and other artists like Gets, Jobim, etc.
Bossa nova music takes a lot from samba and jazz, though it doesn’t teem with percussion. The main instrument is usually the classical guitar accompanied by the vocals. However, piano is another popular instrument to be heard in such compositions – it serves as a certain bridge between jazz and bossa. The strings, though rarely used, can also add to bossa nova making it a more lounge style, so popular in America.
So widespread in the 60-ies, Bossa Nova is still attracting musicians from all over the world. Such famous artists as Elvis Presley, The Beatles, Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra, The Doors, George Michael, Shakira, The Black Eyed Peas and others used the elements of bossa nova in their music albums.
"Bossa Nova" is a popular music style that was born in Brazil around 1950-ies and is probably the best way to characterize it. These two words in the literal translation from Portuguese mean a ‘new trend’. ‘Bossa’ can also mean everything that is charming, natural and original. This term was first coined as a public reference to a music style in 1958 at the concert of the “University Hebrew Group of Brazil”. This curious style soon was first spread to the entire Latin American, then taken by the American Jazz players to the North America, and in a little while experienced a real worldwide boom due to João Gilberto and other artists like Gets, Jobim, etc.
Bossa nova music takes a lot from samba and jazz, though it doesn’t teem with percussion. The main instrument is usually the classical guitar accompanied by the vocals. However, piano is another popular instrument to be heard in such compositions – it serves as a certain bridge between jazz and bossa. The strings, though rarely used, can also add to bossa nova making it a more lounge style, so popular in America.
So widespread in the 60-ies, Bossa Nova is still attracting musicians from all over the world. Such famous artists as Elvis Presley, The Beatles, Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra, The Doors, George Michael, Shakira, The Black Eyed Peas and others used the elements of bossa nova in their music albums.
