Perhaps best known worldwide from the 1960s jazz song "The Girl From Ipanema," which describes a "tall and tan and young and lovely" who who walks "like a samba," the Ipanema neighborhood of Brazil’s ...

U.S. News Insider Tip: At the end of the day, go to Arpoador at the far end of Ipanema near Copacabana to watch the sunset next to the Dois Irmãos (Two Brothers Mountains). Locals clap as the last ...

“I do not want to leave this place,” I scribbled in my journal the night we flew home. I meant it. Rio de Janeiro has that effect on you. It’s not just the raw natural beauty–though the cinematic ...

Helo Pinheiro was a 17-year-old fixture on the Rio beach ("tall and tan and young and lovely") in 1962, when she caught the eye of composer Antonio Carlos Jobim, who along with poet Vinicius De Moraes ...

Tall and tan and young and lovely, the girl from Ipanema goes running – this time with the Olympic torch. Helô Pinheiro, 71, the woman who was immortalized by the 1960s bossa nova classic “The Girl ...

Astrud Gilberto, the Brazilian bossa nova singer best known for The Girl from Ipanema, has died aged 83. One of Brazil's biggest stars of the 1960s and 70s, she recorded 16 albums and worked with ...

Where Ipanema’s original iterations tended toward kitsch, the latest interior is pure glamour, a controlled riot of luxe materials: curving wood, gleaming marble, jungle-green tiles, cascades of ...

Astrud Gilberto, the Brazilian singer, songwriter and entertainer whose off-hand, English-language cameo on “The Girl From Ipanema” made her a worldwide voice of bossa nova, has died at 83. Musician ...