WORLD MUSIC ATLAS · BR

João Gilberto

A quiet voice and radically precise guitar pulse that helped create the grammar of bossa nova.

LIFE
1931–2019
COUNTRY
Brazil
LANGUAGES
Portuguese
SOUND
Bossa nova, samba, jazz

A voice from Brazil

João Gilberto belongs to RadioRat’s founding Music Atlas collection: a guide connecting influential musical voices with the places, languages and live radio around them. Biographical details are linked to Wikipedia, while structured facts are maintained by the open Wikidata community.