Jobim's musical roots were planted firmly in the work of Pixinguinha, the legendary musician and composer who began modern Brazilian music in the 1930s. As a young man of limited means, Jobim earned his living by playing in nightclubs and bars and later as an arranger for a recording label before starting to achieve success as a composer. He was the one who gave Jobim his first piano. In 1935, when the elder Jobim died, Nilza married Celso da Frota Pessoa (died 2 February 1979), who would encourage his stepson's career. When Antônio was still an infant, his parents separated and his mother moved with her children (Antônio Carlos and his sister Helena Isaura, born 23 February 1931) to Ipanema, the beachside neighborhood the composer would later celebrate in his songs. 1910–1989), was of partly Indigenous descent from Northeastern Brazil. His mother, Nilza Brasileiro de Almeida ( c. While studying medicine in Europe, José Martins added Jobim to his last name, paying homage to the village where his family came from in Portugal, the parish of Santa Cruz de Jovim, Porto. He came from a prominent family, being the great-nephew of José Martins da Cruz Jobim, senator, privy councillor and physician of Emperor Dom Pedro II. His father, Jorge de Oliveira Jobim ( São Gabriel, Rio Grande do Sul 1889–1935), was a writer, diplomat, professor and journalist.
His 1967 album with Frank Sinatra, Francis Albert Sinatra & Antônio Carlos Jobim, was nominated for Album of the Year in 1968.Īntônio Carlos Jobim was born in the middle-class district of Tijuca in Rio de Janeiro. The song "Garota de Ipanema" has been recorded over 240 times by other artists. Jobim composed many songs that are now included in jazz and pop standard repertoires. The album's single "Garota de Ipanema" ("The Girl from Ipanema"), composed by Jobim, has become one of the most recorded songs of all time, and the album won the Record of the Year. It also won for Best Jazz Instrumental Album – Individual or Group and for Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical. In 1965, the album Getz/Gilberto was the first jazz album to win the Grammy Award for Album of the Year. Jobim was a primary force behind the creation of the bossa nova style, and his songs have been performed by many singers and instrumentalists internationally. As such he is sometimes known as the "father of bossa nova". Considered one of the great exponents of Brazilian music, Jobim internationalized bossa nova and, with the help of important American artists, merged it with jazz in the 1960s to create a new sound with popular success. Antônio Carlos Brasileiro de Almeida Jobim (25 January 1927 – 8 December 1994), also known as Tom Jobim ( Portuguese pronunciation: ), was a Brazilian composer, pianist, guitarist, songwriter, arranger and singer.
0 kommentar(er)
