Bossa Nova is a genre of Brazilian music that developed and was popularized in the 1950s and 1960s, and is today one of the best-known Brazilian music genres abroad. The phrase bossa nova means literally “new trend”. A lyrical fusion of samba and jazz, Βossa Νova acquired a large following in the 1960s, initially among young musicians and college students. Influenced by West Coast jazz, in the 1950s, composer Antonio Carlos Jobim helped to form Bossa Nova, a new music…
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