{"id":5559,"date":"2013-06-24T11:18:27","date_gmt":"2013-06-24T11:18:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/steampunkopera.wordpress.com\/?p=5559"},"modified":"2013-06-24T11:18:27","modified_gmt":"2013-06-24T11:18:27","slug":"joao-gilberto-and-bossa-nova","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paulshapera.com\/temp\/joao-gilberto-and-bossa-nova\/","title":{"rendered":"Joao Gilberto and Bossa Nova"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Joao<\/a><\/p>\n

The Brazilian musician Joao Gilberto is often considered the father of Bossa Nova, cementing this new style after sequestering himself away in a bathroom in Minas Gerais for 8 months during 1955.<\/p>\n

He had up until this time had no luck as a musician. He was always broke and depressed, living off of friends and his sister.<\/p>\n

After this woodshedding incident in the bathroom, where his singing and guitar style truly emerged as a very jazzy, breezy form of samba, his father decided his son had lost it. “Gilberto’s father, upset by Jo\u00e3o’s bizarre singing style and refusal to take “normal” work, committed him to a mental hospital. In a psychological interview there, Gilberto stared out the window and remarked, \u201cLook at the wind depilating the trees.\u201d The psychologist replied, \u201cBut trees have no hair, Jo\u00e3o,\u201d to which Gilberto responded, \u201cAnd there are people who have no poetry.\u201d He was released after a week.”<\/p>\n

After being released from the hospital Gilberto went to\u00a0Rio de Janeiro where he hooked up with an old music friend name Antonio Carlos Jobim. Jobim of course needs no introduction and we’ll devote a post specifically to him coming up. Jobim fell in love with Gilberto’s new style and they called it Bossa Nova, or “New Trend”. \u00a0While Girberto’s first actual bossa nova song was Bim Bom, his first recorded song and subsequent LP was Chega De Suadade.<\/p>\n

The \u00a0song\u00a0Chega de Suadade was written by Jobim in Gilberto’s new style in order to get the style out to the people. In 1957 Gilberto’s bossa nova was a sensation in the district where Gilberto was playing and Jobim figured if they could get an established artist to record it, it would go huge. Jobim wrote\u00a0Chega De Suadade and gave it to\u00a0Elizeth Cardoso to record in 1958 (with Gilberto playing guitar). However\u00a0Elizeth Cardoso had no intention of changing her singing style to suit some daft idea. The song went unnoticed.<\/p>\n

Gilberto said fuck this and recorded the damn thing himself. Boom. It went viral. 1959 viral. Seriously, bossa nova went world wide.<\/p>\n

We present for you today Gilberto’s first album, recorded in 1959, bossa nova’s first album, the album that started it all, Chega De Suadade.<\/p>\n

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