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Gilberto, Astrud

LC control no.n 92036206
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Personal name headingGilberto, Astrud
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Variant(s)Weinert, Astrud Evangelina
Other standard no.0000 0001 1631 6905
44485145
Q230401
Associated countryBrazil United States
Birth date1940-03-29
Death date2023-06-05
Place of birthBahia (Brazil : State)
Field of activityBossa nova (Music)
Profession or occupationSingers
Found inGetz, S. Getz/Gilberto [SR] p1964: container insert (Astrud Gilberto)
New Grove dict. of jazz (Gilberto, Astrud; b. 1940, Bahia, Brazil; Brazilian singer)
Wikipedia, 6 June 2023: (Astrud Gilberto; born Astrud Evangelina Weinert; b. 29 March 1940; d. 5 June 2023; was a Brazilian samba and bossa nova singer. She gained international attention in the 1960s following her recording of the song "The Girl from Ipanema")
New York times, 7 June 2023: in an obituary on page A20 (Astrud Gilberto; born Astrud Evangelina Weinert on Mar. 29, 1940 in Bahia, Brazil (her family moved to Rio when Astrud was young), died Monday [5 June 2023], aged 83; whose soft and sexy vocal performance on "The Girl from Ipanema," the first song she ever recorded, helped make the sway of Brazilian bossa nova a hit sound in the United States; emigrated to America in the mid-1960s)
Associated languagepor