ASTRUD GILBERTO (inspiration of today)

QUEEN ON BOSSA NOVA

Astrud Gilberto was born as Astrud Weinert, the daughter of a Brazilian mother and a German father, in the state of Bahia, Brazil, and was raised in Rio de Janeiro. In 1959, she married João Gilberto, later emigrating to the United States in 1963 and has continued to reside in the US since then. They eventually divorced in the mid-1960s and, after this, she began an affair with her husband's musical partner, Stan Getz.  (Source: Twomey, John. "The Troubled Genius of Stan Getz". jazzsight.com. http://www.jazzsight.com/jazzsightprofiles.html. Retrieved 24 March 2010.)

She sang on the influential album Getz/Gilberto featuring João Gilberto, Stan Getz, and Antonio Carlos Jobim. She had never performed professionally, and sang on the recordings at the suggestion of her (then) husband, João Gilberto.(Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astrud_Gilberto)

All day listening to her wonderful vocal, while a windy autumn weather is trying to get me through a balcony. Moscow seems dull today, dominating colour behind my window - gray. So this music keeps me warm here while I'm drowning into a sea of sentiments. At least they seem tasteful with this sort of soundtrack.