'Girl from Ipanema' singer Astrud Gilberto dead at 83
Rio de Janeiro (AFP) - Astrud Gilberto, the Brazilian singer whose soft, beguiling voice made "The Girl from Ipanema" a worldwide sensation in the 1960s and provided a huge boost to the budding bossa nova genre, has died at age 83, her family said. "I come bearing the sad news that my grandmother became a star today and is next to my grandfather Joao Gilberto," Sofia Gilberto wrote on social media early Tuesday. The singer died at home in Philadelphia, in the United States, where she had lived since the 1960s, according to Brazilian news site G1. Gilberto was born in Salvador, capital of Brazi...