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Café Bossa is the debut album by Filipino bossa nova singer Sitti.It was released on January 25, 2006 by Warner Music Philippines.The album spawned four successful singles—"Tattooed on My Mind", "Hey Look at the Sun", "I Didn't Know I Was Looking for Love" and "Para sa Akin".
Sitti Katrina Baiddin Navarro-Ramirez (born November 29, 1984 [1] in Las Piñas), known professionally as Sitti, is a Filipino bossa nova singer. [2] After releasing her first album, Café Bossa, in 2006, other bossa nova acts in the Philippines followed. [3] Navarro was also featured in the segment "A.S.A.P. Sessionistas" of the variety show ...
Big Band Bossa Nova (Quincy Jones album) Big Band Bossa Nova (Stan Getz album) Black Orpheus; Bossa Nova (John Pizzarelli album) Bossa Nova and the Rise of Brazilian Music in the 1960s; Bossas & Ballads – The Lost Sessions; Brasileiro; Brazil (Rosemary Clooney album) Brazilian Romance
My Bossa Nova is the second studio album of Philippine bossa nova singer Sitti. It was released by Warner Music Philippines in 2007. Unlike her previous studio album, Café Bossa, this album focused on more recent songs and had very few "traditional" bossa nova songs. Sitti also co-wrote one song, "A Song for Penny Brown".
This song first reached a wide audience on the Grammy-winning bossa nova LP Jazz Samba (Getz/Byrd/Betts), [1] which reached the number one spot on the Billboard 200 in 1963. [2] Another well-known release is the Sergio Mendes-Brasil '66 version, in medley with "Spanish Flea". [citation needed]
It combined music that was popular outside the United States, such as various Latin genres (e.g., bossa nova, cha-cha-cha, mambo as in Cal Tjader's fine Latin jazz efforts), Polynesian, French, etc. into a relaxed, [2] palatable sound. Such music could have some instruments exaggerated (e.g., a Polynesian song might have an exotic percussion ...
Bossa nova (Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈbɔsɐ ˈnɔvɐ] ⓘ) is a relaxed style of samba [nb 1] developed in the late 1950s and early 1960s in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. [2] It is mainly characterized by a calm syncopated rhythm with chords and fingerstyle mimicking the beat of a samba groove, as if it was a simplification and stylization on the guitar of the rhythm produced by a samba school band.
Charlie Lee Byrd (September 16, 1925 – December 2, 1999) was an American jazz guitarist. Byrd was best known for his association with Brazilian music, especially bossa nova.