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 ...

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On October 7, 2026, one of Brazil’s most famous beaches became a place of remembrance. At Ipanema Beach, in Rio de Janeiro, StandWithUs Brasil organized a public tribute to the victims of the Hamas ...

Catharina Michel plays "altinha," a popular beach game with a soccer ball, on Arpoador beach Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Saturday, May 15, 2021. Brazilian pop star Anitta’s spin on the classic “The Girl ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Short, and dark, and young, and tired, the seal on Ipanema was basking ... The fur seal on Rio de Janeiro's iconic beach was turning heads of locals and tourists alike Wednesday ...

Astrud Gilberto, the Brazilian singer, songwriter and entertainer whose off-hand, English-language cameo on “The Girl From Ipanema” made her a worldwide voice of bossa nova, has died at 83. Musician ...

Where Ipanema’s original iterations tended toward kitsch, the latest interior is pure glamour, a controlled riot of luxe materials: curving wood, gleaming marble, jungle-green tiles, cascades of ...

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Astrud Gilberto, the singer whose beloved recording of "The Girl From Ipanema" is often credited with bringing Brazilian bossa nova to the United States, has died. She was 83. Her granddaughter Sofia ...

Brazilian pop star Anitta has a new twist on an old song that, more than a half-century after its creation, still isn't played out Wednesday 02 June 2021 13:04 BST From reproductive rights to climate ...