RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Chauffeured in a classic Porsche, the Brazilian beauty steps out into 1960s Rio de Janeiro. The pastel pastiche is easy on the eyes, and so is the pin-up girl tracing twirls as a ...

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 ...

Nearly everyone can hum at least a few lines of the famous bossa nova classic, “The Girl From Ipanema.” But most don’t know the story of the girl who inspired the song by lyricist Vinicius de Moraes, ...

After a three-year hiatus, Ipanema sandals has returned to the U.S. market with a new wholesale and retail strategy. According to Kate Minner, chief marketing officer of Ipanema’s parent company ...

She was a bossa super-nova. Astrud Gilberto, the bossa nova singer most famous for her recording of “The Girl From Ipanema,” widely viewed as the unofficial cultural anthem of Brazil, has died at age ...

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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 ...