Brazil's bossa nova master Gilberto dies

By By Marcelo Silva de Sousa
Updated July 7 2019 - 11:08am, first published 11:06am
Brazilian composer Joao Gilberto has died at the age of 88.
Brazilian composer Joao Gilberto has died at the age of 88.

Joao Gilberto, a Brazilian singer, guitarist and songwriter considered one of the fathers of the bossa nova genre that gained global popularity in the 1960s and became an iconic sound of the South American nation has died.

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