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“The Girl from Ipanema” has won a gold medal in music streaming following the opening ceremony of the Summer Olympics. Spotify says the song was streamed more than 40,000 times a day after the ...

The Rio Tourism Board inaugurated a statue in honor of Tom Jobim at Ipanema Beach. The Rio Tourism Board inaugurated a statue in honor of Tom Jobim at Ipanema Beach. The City Hall paid a tribute, on ...

ASTRUD GILBERTO: (Singing) Tall and tan and young and lovely, the girl from Ipanema goes walking. And when she passes, each one she passes goes, ah. INSKEEP: "The Girl From Ipanema" popularized ...

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 ...

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"The Girl from Ipanema" has won a gold medal in music streaming following the opening ceremony of the Summer Olympics. Spotify says the song was streamed more than 40,000 times a day after the ...

She was a bossa super-nova. Astrud Gilberto, the bossa nova singer most famous for her recording of “The Girl From Ipanema,” widely viewed as the unofficial cultural anthem of Brazil, has died at age ...